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titutional authority。 deism( 自然神教派 , 宗教與啟蒙精神相結(jié)合的產(chǎn)物 ) 。 it is easier to experience emotional excitement than rational understanding. ? 5. It made religion more democratic。 a person must passively surrender to receive grace through senses. One cannot achieve saving grace through a rational process. ? 4. From Isaac Newton, Edwards borrowed the concept that the harmonious working of the universe reflected the magnificence of the Great Geometrician or God. Edwards’ double identities reflected in his works He was the first modern American trying to reconciling Puritan ideas with the new rationalism of John Lock (knowledge is empirical, its sources being the sense) and Newton’s mechanical view of the universe. He was Also the Last Medieval Man ? (1) “I have had a… constant sense of the absolute sovereignty of God” He insists on the doctrine of inward munication of soul with God ? (2) belief in the regeneratio