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Rationalism as defined by Attwater in A Catholic Dictionary: Rationalism: " The error of those who reject all revelation and give assent to nothing but what can be attained by the natural power of their reason." Rationalism is a heresy, which had some effect on the heresy of Modernism, and particularly on the Deists. It affected the Church primarily through Modernism, which has been particularly prevalent since the Second Vatican Council.

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