the intellectual maturity of human beings in which they learned to think for themselves instead of depending on the Bible and the tradition of the church. Enlightenment thinkers had come to believe that Christianity was largely irrelevant to the issues and concerns of the modern world. As philosopher Immanuel Kant put it, the Enlightenment represents the emergence of human beings from a self-inflicted state of tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to make use of one’s understanding without guidance