20th Century Liberalism Flashcards
Someone who desires freedom from something or freedom to do something
Liberal
The desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially those of the Scriptures
Modern Liberalism
The principle or practice of conserving established traditions or institutions and opposing changes in them.
Conservatism
What has been the most powerful conservative force through the ages?
The Bible
Which pseudoscience states that nothing can be known except observable scientific “facts”?
Positivism
The French philosopher who taught positivism
Auguste Comte
The term Comte coined for his new ‘science’ of human society
Sociology
The study of the mind
Psychology
Who formulated pyschoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
The 3 men who formulated behavioral psychology
Ivan Pavlov, J.B. Watson, B.F. Skinner
The philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Spiritual considerations.
Pragmatism
The “anti philosophy” which claims there is no truth or reality.
Existentialism
Who began existentialism? (He taught that all man can do is take a “leap of faith”
Soren Kierkegaard
The existentialist who stated that “God is dead”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Who advocated progressive education?
John Dewey
The belief that all matters of morality should be based on consideration of the well-being of mankind in this present life
Secularism
Dependence upon man’s reasonings and and feelings alone
Humanism
The document which expressed point by point the “faith” of humanism
Humanist Manifesto
What is religious liberalism often called?
Modernism
The new message of the modernists that the resulted from the rejection or minimization of the true gospel.
Social Gospel
The German theologian who introduced the social gospel movement
Albrecht Ritschl
The “Prophet of the Social Gospel”
Walter Rauschenbusch
One of the most radical religious liberals
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The outward union of all churches
Ecumenism
