The covenant in Ulrich Huber's enlightened theology, jurisprudence and political theory by A. W. G. Raath, S. A. de Freitas

“…This takes place against the background of the more prominent insights  regarding the covenant in 16th and 17th century Western political thought, namely the idea of the Biblical covenant (with the emphasis on the conditional nature of God’s law), and the secular social contract theories stemming from the early Enlightenment. This investigation gains value as a result of its emphasis on the prominence of the covenant in the inextricably linked disciplines of theology, jurisprudence and political theory; as well as its revitalisation of the complicated nature of the covenant. …”
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Jewish Women, Identity, and the Aufklärung: The German-speaking Enlightenment around 1800 by Josephine Porter

“… This paper poses the question, “how enlightened was German-speaking central Europe around 1800?” …”
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The Enlightenment of Domestic and International Legal and Policies Related to the Sea Level Rise Adaptation by ZHANG Zefei, REN Shutong, XIA Dongdong, SHEN Xiaoying

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Johannes Ljungberg & Erik Sidenvall (red.), Religious Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Nordic Countries: Reason and Orthodoxy by Urban Claesson

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Book from Antique to Enlightenment borrowed by Vilnius professors from the University Library between 1805-1816 by Krystyna Bednarska - Ruszajowa

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Sędziowie pokoju we Francji w czasach Rewolucji — zagadnienia ustrojowe a ideały oświecenia by Oskar Olejnik

“…The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of whether the philosophy of the Enlightenment inspired the organization of justices of the peace in France, and if so, to what extent. …”
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Obrona nowożytnej koncepcji praw dziecka. Kilka refleksji w kontekście myśli pedagogicznej Jana Jakuba Rousseau by Małgorzata Kozak

“…The presented reflections are an attempt at a new interpretation of the category of children’s rights in the context of pedagogical naturalism and the rationalism of a philosopher of the Enlightenment. This text may become an argument in defense of the concept of basing the relations between adults and children on the ideas of children’s rights. …”
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Skrifbeskouing en oorredingsretoriek: perspektiewe op performatiewe prediking by Johan Cilliers

“…The critique that has been levelled against this understanding of Scripture and preaching, initiated through the mind-set of the Enlightenment (Kant), gaining momentum since the Second World War, and coming to full fruition in the so-called postmodernism, is briefly addressed. …”
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Positive models of suffering and psychiatry by Ahmed Samei Huda

“…In the positive model, suffering can contain an important message of needed change, indicate a response to a psychosocial predicament or be a route to spiritual enlightenment. This approach is briefly critiqued, and circumstances where patients might prefer this approach are described. …”
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Dziecięce filozofowanie na tle romantycznej wizji szlachetnego dzikusa J.J. Rousseau by Maria Szczepska-Pustkowska

“…One of such theories was born thanks to Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), thanks to which the Enlightenment and the Romanticism discovered the noble savage child immersed in nature. …”
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A estética contemporânea: nova poética, novo olhar by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…One aspect of this panorama is the distrust of speech structures once considered stables that seemed to characterize the modernist language, and also the consciense of the precarious status of the groundworks and determinations, which is disseminated in the idea of scattering, of insuficiency of the dialectics supported by enlightenment and rationalism. This attitude tends to produce an aesthetics of unfamiliarity, in which literature is inclined to be seen as a singular activity, as an indiferentiated act achieved by the one who writes, in the obscure and silent side of language. …”
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Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria by Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

“…The essay concludes by arguing for a rigorous public enlightenment as well as a reform of the educational curriculum through an injection of virtue ethics. …”
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Calvyn oor natuurrampe by P. C. Potgieter

“… Severe natural disasters such as the tsunami off Indonesia in 2004 often lead to a demand for theological enlightenment. This article explores how John Calvin’s reasoning in this regard could be a relevant contribution towards deeper insight in the extremely difficult issue of a theodicy. …”
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Reasons for the migration of church members from one congregation to another by I. M. Bredenkamp, W. J. Schoeman

“…The effects of secularisation and the Enlightenment, and their consequences at various levels, as well as the theories of McDonaldisation and Consumerism were taken into consideration to explain the migration of church members between congregations. …”
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A Short History of the Formation of Hungarian Legal Terminology by József Szabadfalvi

“…The creation of Hungarian terminology gained new impetus under the influence of the ideas of the Enlightenment. This process coincided with the so-called language reform and the ›codification‹ of the Hungarian literary and common language. …”
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EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF POLICE HARASSMENT OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA by Ademolu Oluwaseun Adenuga, Abdullahi Abiodun Oyekanmi

“…The study does recommends for regular in- service training for the police on civil public engagement and respect for citizens inalienable rights; government assertiveness on good character, empathy and obedience to laws as recruitment criteria into Nigeria police; NANS affirmative action against police brutality of students and scaled- up public enlightenment through symposia on mutual respects for the law officers by members of the public. …”
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The periodisation of Lithuanian history in the context of social history by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…Such concepts, related to the political, cultural, and social history, as the Middle Ages, the Early New Ages, the Renaissance, Baroque, and the Age of Enlightenment are under discussion in the article, and the optimal approach to the periodization of the Early History of Lithuania (1009-1795) from the point of view of the history of society is being searched for. …”
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The influence of Christianity on Graeco-Roman medicine up to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…But after the Reformation and Henry VIII of England’s break with the Vatican, the hegemony of the Church had come apart and Christianity and medicine gradually became realigned according to the realities of the Age of Enlightenment. …”
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The library of Troškūnai monastery by Arvydas Pacevičius

“…On the other hand, Enlightenment ideas were accepted and adopted in Lithuania, and the confessional intelligentsia participated in this process. …”
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Lithuanian bibliophiles in the XVIII century by Levas Vladimirovas

“…During the Age of Enlightenment, better conditions for the collection of books were created in Lithuania. …”
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