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Classical Theory: Theologically Based Worldview And Authority Of The Catholic Church

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Classical theory is a philosophical theory based on reason and born of the Enlightenment period or “Age of Reason”, in which its’ “scientific” worldview was a challenge to the theologically based worldview and authority of the Catholic Church (Bohm & Vogel, 2011, p. 13). With this, came a dramatic source of knowledge, especially in areas pertaining to personal observations, where rationalism was used by thinkers to reason from the general to the particular or to apply theory to a particular case as they believed that people could understand the world through science (Bohm & Vogel, 2011, p. 14). Beccaria is credited with ending legal torture throughout Christendom by criminal law historians; as his book had a great practical effect during

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