What did the different forms of violent resistance to the Old Regime have in common?

What did it mean to have an "established" church?

Why were the churches important to governing and landowning elites?

How were they important to the average person?

What were the characteristics of Enlightenment thought?

Why were the churches regarded as the adversary?

What did Enlightenment thinkers mean by "reason"?

How were Enlightenment ideas spread?

What were the sources of dissatisfaction with the Old Regime churches?

What were the most important differences between German Lutheran Pietism and Anglo-American Evangelicalism?