"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
<span>That is probably the most famous passage from the Declaration of Independence. What questions does that raise in your mind about people who signed the Declaration and who also owned slaves?</span>
George Fox was a leader in a 17th-century Christian awakening from which came the Quaker movement (now known as the Society of Friends or the Friends Church). During civil strife between royalist and parliamentary forces, the movement spread rapidly across England and in American colonies, in spite of harassment under Commonwealth and Restoration governments that brought property loss, imprisonment, and sometimes death. By the end of the century, there were 100,000 Quakers, an American colony (Pennsylvania), and a strong public witness to Christian holiness, peace, religious freedom, participatory worship, business integrity and social justice.
Many early adherents were drawn from Seeker communities of Northern England. These Christians, disillusioned with monopolistic state religion, whether Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, or Independent, had been meeting informally for Bible study and prayer. George Fox forcefully articulated their criticism of the institutional church for its secondhand faith, sin-excusing doctrine, hireling ministry, and compromise with political powers. People responded eagerly to his proclamation of a new Day of the Lord in which the true church is being recovered and kingdom righteousness effected through Christ's presence and power.
Answer:
D. He was a scholar who wrote to defund religious ideals
Explanation:
The reason Thomas Aquinas was so important to the church was because he was the first person to create philosophy and theology and to show the relationship between the two.
The Industrail Revolutuion and the atlantic reveloution
The "Great Leap Forward" is the name of the plan started by the Communist government of China that attempted to rapidly industrialize their economy in the late 1950s.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The Great Leap Forward was the social and economic program during 1958 to 1962 of the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) by the Communist Party of China (CPC) counted as second 5 year plan. This initiative was flagged by Mao Zedong as a movement to transform the nation from an agrarian economy to a socialist society by establishing communes of the citizens.
The movement for the faster growth of the industrial and agricultural industries in China must be initiated in parallel. The objective was to eliminate importing heavy machinery by permitting use of the vast supply of cheap workers.The authorities also wanted to escape the social stratification as well as the technological bottlenecks embedded in the Soviet growth model, but found political instead of technical solutions.
