The Reformed congregation in Oksa played an important role the history of 17th century Calvinism Lesser Poland. Throughout its over 100 years existence and under continued patronage Rej family town was not only place numerous synods, location impressive church edifice, a school but also seat may influential pastors Church: Franciszek Stankar Younger (1562–1621) Jerzy Laetus (1609–c. 1656). arti...

changes that took place from the early Victorian to the modem age. The perception of a divinely designed world was transformed to that of a godless universe, and in the process Huxley famously coined "agnosticism". Desmond follows Bernard Lightman in ascribing religious qualities to Huxley's agnosticism. Specifically and most intriguingly, he characterizes Huxley as a Cromwellian Calvinist, rel...

Religion is commonly defined as a set of rules, developed as part of a culture. Here we provide evidence that practice in following these rules systematically changes the way people attend to visual stimuli, as indicated by the individual sizes of the global precedence effect (better performance to global than to local features). We show that this effect is significantly reduced in Calvinism, a...

M. Weber (1947) proposed that exposure to Calvinist Protestantism is associated with limited attention to relational concerns in work settings. Two experiments provide support for this proposition. Study 1 showed that Protestant European Americans raised in traditions of Calvinism were less attentive to affect in spoken words when primed with a work context relative to a nonwork context, and to...

The following article intends the description of religious and intellectual environment in prerevo-lutionary America. It is divided into two main sec-tions: (1) a one where I will cover most significant elements, ideological context what was decisive cultural force formation new country ?Puritanism?; (2) another that succinctly describes particular shape enlightened thought acquired part Britis...

After A Short Biographical Introduction, This Article Argues That Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Theology Displays His Appreciation For The Catholicity Of Church. Attitude Appears Most Strongly In Interest Epistemology. Bavinck, Faith And Knowledge Form An Essential Unity. He Intends To Avoid Subjectivity While Incorporating Modern Epistemological Turn Human Subject. Is Original Important Contributi...