Which statement BEST explains the relationship between Enlightenment thought and the religious establishment during the 18th century?
A.
Enlightenment thinkers joined forces with the church to uphold the moral authority of the church and European monarchs.
B.
Enlightenment thought, due to its roots in religious philosophy, helped to soothe growing frustration with European monarchies.
C.
Enlightenment thought, because of its roots in science and reason, challenged the prevailing authority of the church.
D.
The religious establishment in 18th century Europe began to incorporate science and reason into its philosophy, creating a new religious movement that would spread to America.
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Answer:
c is the correct answer
Answer:
A.
The Age of Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment.
[1][note 2] was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.[3]
B.
The Enlightenment emerged out of a European intellectual and scholarly movement known as Renaissance humanism and was also preceded by the Scientific Revolution and the work of Francis Bacon, among others. Some date the beginning of the Enlightenment to René Descartes' 1637 philosophy of Cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I Am"), while others cite the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687) as the culmination of the Scientific Revolution and the beginning of the Enlightenment. French historians traditionally date its beginning with the death of Louis XIV of France in 1715 until the 1789 outbreak of the French Revolution. Most end it with the beginning of the 19th century.
C.