Enlightenment

“The mature music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven—the Viennese Classical composers—reflects the best ideals of the Enlightenment in that it embodies rational clarity and order and makes a direct appeal to the listener without undue obscurity.” - Imaginative Conservative

Natural theology “was not a novelty introduced at the time of the Enlightenment and it did not lead to or cause the Enlightenment.” - Credo