During the Renaissance Period the thinking of
"Christian religion" just followed along like a lap-dog to
the philosophers and scientists of that day (as it has
throughout most of its history.) Rene Descartes introduced
Cartesian doubt, "I think, therefore I am." Rationalistic
belief was the foremost criteria for being. Sir Isaac Newton
developed ideas of deterministic causalism, and these were
adapted into theology also.
In the sixteenth century the Reformation exploded with
Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and others. It
is called the "Reformation" because it re-formed the
religious structures that existed in "Christian religion" at
that time. But the birth of Protestantism did not restore the
centrality of the spiritual dynamic of Jesus Christ.
"Christian religion" was still regarded as essentially a
"belief-system," but instead of a singular formulated and
fixated belief-system in the Roman Church, it became
multiple factious and fractious belief-systems competing
with one another and beating on one another (both verbally
and physically.) Disagreeing on every minute point of
theology conceivable, they began to divide and sub-divide
into denominationalized belief-system organizations, each
believing that they had formulated and fixated their belief-
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