Bible Encyclopedias

Bauer, Bruno
A daring Biblical critic, and violent polemic on political as well as theological subjects; born at Saxe-Altenburg; regarded the Christian religion as

Être Suprême
the supreme being agreeably to the hollow and vacant conception of the boasted, beggarly 18th-century enlightenment of revolutionary france.

Illuminati
A class or fraternity of people who affect superior enlightenment, particularly on religious and social matters, tending of late in the one to Deism, and in the other to Republicanism, in France forming

Obscurantist
name given to an opponent to modern enlightenment as professed by the devotees of modern science and philosophy.

Philosophe
name for a philosopher of the school of 18th century enlightenment, represented by the encyclopedists (q. v .) of france; the class have been characterised by the delight they took in outraging the religious sentiment. see aufklärung and illumination, the .

Seraphic Doctor
appellation applied to st. bonaventura (q. v .); also by carlyle to the doctors of the modern school of enlightenment, or march-of-intellect school. see aufklärung .

Volney
Bourbons on their return; his principal work, "Les Ruines, ou Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires ," was an embodiment of 18th-century enlightenment (q. v .) (1757-1820).