Christian Heritage Test 4 Flashcards
on the extreme reason side; looked at the myth-making tendency of the Gospels; product of the Enlightenment; says we don’t know much about the historical Jesus that we can confirm, only that he died, was born in Nazareth, was a Jewish teacher; said Jesus was just a man whose followers decide is the Messiah, and thus they write stories that portray him as such
Strauss
in the middle of the pietism-reason spectrum; names the first quest for the historical Jesus; says Reimus is right in saying Jesus is Jewish but he is a Jewish escatalogical, apocalyptic prophet and is convinced he is the son of man who is ushering in the kingdom and that he has to go to Jerusalem and die for other people, but says Jesus’s death doesn’t bring the kingdom; says if you use reason, your conclusion has to be that the historical Jesus doesn’t matter to the church because he failed and what matters is the spiritual understanding of Jesus; he brings the quest for the historical Jesus to a halt
Schweitzer
says the quest for historical Jesus is impossible - the sources we have (Gospels) are all second-hand info; they are interested in Jesus’s theological significance, not history; if you try to use reason, you exclude faith which is the way to respond to Christian teaching; if Jesus is a teacher, we can grasp what he is kind of teaching, but the Gospels are teaching Jesus, not so much who Jesus is; people need to respond in faith to what the gospels say about Jesus
Bultmann
“new second quest”; if you want to understand Jesus correctly, you have to think just theologically and historically about Jesus, because we could take just his theology and apply it to any political movement; lived through WWII
Kasemann
all about reason; methods and sources - meets and looks at all Jesus sources to decide what Jesus actually said; said most of the gospels is said about Jesus noticed by him; 18% by Jesus and 82% about Jesus; used multiple attestation, embarrassment factor, and dissimilarity to judge accuracy; comes out with a Jesus that looks dissimilar to a 1st century Jew, but instead says Jesus looks like a wandering sage cynic
Jesus Seminar
need multiple sources to verify; difficult to get
multiple attestation
why would someone present something that would embarrass the subject of the work; if it is embarrassing, it is likely true
embarrassment factor
does the presentation of a character come from the author of from how they actually were; if the presentation of Jesus is different from a 1st century Jew, it is more likely to be true - but Jesus is a first century Jew
dissimilarity
3rd quest; need a new integration of history and theology; we have to place Jesus in his historical context: Judaism; for Jesus to be presented historically, he has to be crucifiable - he had to do something for there to be a reason to kill him - he has to understand himself as a Messiah, so he could irritate Rome/Jews; since the 3rd quest, there hasn’t been much progress on the historical Jesus
Meyer, Wright, Dunn
challenges Enlightenment thinking; premises: there are realities stronger than reason, the world is like a living organism, the world changes and grow, the world isn’t as orderly as Enlightenment thinkers believe; results: advances cause of Pietism, religion becomes less about rationalization and proof, Christianity becomes a question of faith and feeling
Romanticism
Catholic; the cultural power of inherited Christianity grounds Christianity; rely not on reason, but in feeling and the undeniable marks Christianity has left on culture
Chateaubrand
Catholic; social power reflected in the church; society is based on authority and humans are sinful and social and need an authority to guide them - reason obviously didn’t work and kings only provide authority in the political realm
De Maistre
Protestant; a longing for the infinite, eternal and independent is why people dismiss religion, because they don’t understand that infinity; the deepest aspect of human existence: God-consciousness; human nature is finite, temporal, and independent but we are God-conscious and long for the infinite - that is way religion taps into; Christianity is unique with the idea of redemption and being united with Christ, who is perfectly God-conscious
Schleirmacher
said the effect of Enlightenment on Christianity included: true Christianity is based on reason and understanding; reason - intuitive insight, is intimately connected with experience; understanding - what you can know by the senses; must practice religion to experience it
Coleridge
says scripture is inherently theological and has only one theological interest: what has God done/what is he doing?; therefore, think about scripture theologically; theology must begin with the otherness of God; sums up his beliefs by saying “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so”
Barth
says religion is the opium of the masses
Karl Marx
wanted Christian socialism - against unsocial Christians and unChristian socialists
Kingsley and Maurice
founded the Salvation Army
William Booth
pietist; disliked Catholics and socialists; kicked out the Catholics; Kulterkampf and May Laws
Otto von Bismarck
wanted protective labor legislation and insurance to protect the poor under Otto von Bismarck, who he worked for
Stoecher
said helping the poor was living like Jesus
Rauschenbusch and Sheldon
fought against slavery in England
William Wilburforce
wanted prison reform for women in England
Elizabeth Fry
leads a reform movement in Scotland to resist patronage - wealthy, rich clergy, so he opposed that system; the civil ruling favored patronage, thus the middle class splits, creating the Free Church of Scotland
Thomas Chalmers
believed in charismatic gifts in England
Irvingites
thinks he figured out what prophecy means in England
Darby
Scottish guy that travels to France and the Continent and targets theological students, travels around Europe spreading evangelicalism, and emphasizes evangelical doctrines - said they wanted to go back to the roots of protestantism
Robert Haldane
tried to merge Reformed and Lutheran churches, but this angered people
Wilhelm III
American; moved from Calvinism, but was Presbyterian through revivalism - emphasized choice
Charles G. Finney
founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
Frances Willard