The poem, "BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD" written by John Donne, sometime in 1610, is a extremely spiritual in nature. John Donne was probably a very religious man. It seems that he worshiped God and feared the devil. As a result, fearing that he was becoming consumed with evil, Donne dedi...
During the period between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians label this period as the "Age of Absolutism" in the Discovering the Western Past on page 38. ... That means that one person, as in the King, has all or absolute power over something and in this application, it applies to the 17th century European countries. ...
Puritan piety of the seventeenth century had eroded by the eighteenth century in the New World atmosphere of individualism, optimism, and enterprise. ... The eighteenth-century Enlightenment produced a new climate of thought in which people believed that God had endowed humans with powers of observation and reason. ...
