Aufklärung

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Without the Counter-Reformation might not the Reformation, deprived of the support of pietism, have perished in the gross rationalism of the Aufklärung, of the age of Enlightenment?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

It had been so with German Aufklärung, when Ben-David, Itzig, Friedländer, and Jacobson, laid the corner-stone of the intellectual rebirth of their people.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.