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Final Study Guide Flashcards

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  1. Why is all modern theology based on Kant?
    All that follows is based on the ____________________________ of Kant (unable to know); or Kant is wrong & I’ve found a way to prove it.
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Failed philosophical assumptions

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  1. What was Kant most important in doing?

Bringing liberalism to a _____________________________.

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Dead end

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  1. What was “dead end” of Kant’s philosophy that’s never been refuted?
    “If you ______________________ there is no hope.”
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Start without God

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  1. Kant shows that if you start without God you can’t know anything and that’s why postmodernism did what?
    __________________ back in.
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Put God

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  1. What did Kant say we ought to assume?

Certain things are ___________, though we can’t prove it by experience.

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True

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  1. Kant argued God, freedom and immortality must be presupposed for the sake of moral decision making, so what must we do?
    We must ____________________________________.
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Act as if God exists

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  1. According to Kant what must ethics and theology never be bound by?
    Any _____________________________.
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Alleged revelation

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  1. Kant urges us to “act as if God exists” but how?

Only in certain ________________________________ areas of life.

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Artificially compartmentalized

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  1. What is gone by time of Kant?

Rationalism’s _______________________________________ all thought and life is gone.

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Hope of drawing a circle to encompass

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  1. What does Kierkegaard let go of?

The hope of a ____________________________________________.

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Unified field of knowledge

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  1. What are the three precursors to liberalism?
    _______________
    ________________
    ________________
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Deism, Naturalism, and Unitarianism.

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  1. What was the basis of liberalism?

__________________ & ________________.

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Rationalism and Reason

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  1. In whom do we see the beginning of Christian liberalism?
    __________________
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Schleiermacher

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  1. What did Schleiermacher start with?

Started with a ________________________________ but not God.

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Rejection of the Bible

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  1. How did Schleiermacher say we should return to the Bible?
    He says let’s go back to Bible, _____________________________.
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Without reason

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  1. What did Schleiermacher say you could have without the Bible?
    ______________
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Hope

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  1. What did Schleiermacher claim about Jesus?

Jesus was the most _____________________________________.

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God conscious man

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  1. What is the ultimate standard for theology to Schleiermacher?
    “__________________” or “_______________”.
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Experience or feeling

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  1. What was Scripture described as and where did it come from according to Schleiermacher?
    Scriptures “have arisen out of the ________________________;” they are themselves a ___________________ to express religious affections in words.
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Christian Religion and Human attempt

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  1. Introducing the rationalist demise Kant was so persuasive that he ultimately proved what?
    Not possible to start with __________________.
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Reason

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  1. How does Schleiermacher build on Descartes?

Descartes said, “_______________” & Schleiermacher said, “______________”

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I think - I feel

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  1. What 3 things does Jesus/Bible have to do with “truth” according to Schleiermacher?
    The Bible is a “__________________” of the moral awareness in the Hebrew people.
    Jesus was the most “_________________________” that ever lived… but there were others.
    God is __________________ transcendent & we’re incapable of touching Him.
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Moral reflection - God conscious man - totally

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  1. Schleiermacher wins the day philosophically except for who?
    ____________________________.
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Azusa Street

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  1. In the so called “search for the historical Jesus” what was not being looked for?
    Seeing if the _____________________________ was real.
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Historical Jesus

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25. What were liberals looking for in this search? 
The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (not the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_).
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Real Jesus - lies in the Bible

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  1. What new way did people create to try to fulfill the role of Church without God based on the notion of the “Brotherhood of man”?
    _____________________________
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The Social Gospel

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  1. What 4 conclusions did Albert Schweitzer ultimately decide about finding the “historical Jesus”?
    There is __________________________________ of Jesus.
    The reason? It __________________________________.
    You can’t ____________________________________.
    He believes he’s _________________________ (Jesus is a nobody).
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No credible history - can’t be found - know what or how Jesus thought - closing the door on the quest

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  1. What 3 theologies are born out of this “Ultimate Pessimism”?
    ____________________________________;
    ____________________________________;
    ____________________________________.
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God is Dead - Social Gospel - Liberation Theology

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  1. What was Adolf Van Harnack seeking to find?

The “____________________________________” not the truth of Christianity as told in Bible.

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Essence

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  1. What did Van Harnack believe about Jesus?

Thought Jesus was ____________________________________.

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A Noble Leader

31
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  1. What progression is found by the time of Van Harnack regarding Christ?
    From the ____________________________________ to just a _________________________________ (great guy but not God).
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God conscious man - Noble Leader

32
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  1. Hegel reframed truth how?

“________________ - ________________ = ________________.”

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Thesis - Antithesis = Synthesis

33
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  1. Who was the father of postmodernism?

__________________

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Soren Kierkegaard

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  1. What did Kierkegaard show?

There’s ____________________________________ spiritual truth through reason.

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No way to know

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  1. How does Kierkegaard cross the “line of despair”?

Because in effect there’s ________________________ to “find” God.

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Only an irrational leap left

36
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  1. What is Kierkegaard’s greatest new solution?

His view of ________________________________.

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Existentialism

37
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  1. What did Kierkegaard separate resulting in the final step of liberalism?
    __________________ from the _______________.
A

religious - real

38
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  1. Who in the Pentecostal movement makes the same mistake by Kierkegaard in this final step of liberalism?
    ________________________________
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Charismatics

39
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  1. How does Kierkegaard set the stage for postmodernism?

Through “____________________________________”.

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Subjective existentialism

40
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  1. What does Kierkegaard say about truth and faith?

“There’s _________________________________ in faith.”

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No real truth

41
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  1. What is the only source of hope for Kierkegaard? There’s only hope __________________________________.
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in the leap

42
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  1. What admission do we have in Kierkegaard? You’ll ______________________… or _______________ answer… it’s just faith.
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Never know - religion is not an answer

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  1. What according to Kierkegaard is a necessity of faith? ________________
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Doubt.

44
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  1. With everything being subjective where does Kierkegaard land? Lands on the side of __________.
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Despair.

45
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  1. What is essential to us having modernism?
A

Darwinism

46
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  1. What couldn’t existentialism avoid? The ____________ of liberalism.
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Despair

47
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  1. What was Nietzsche’s attempt at a life-affirming alternative to pessimism? A “__________________.”
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Transvaluation of all values

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  1. In the “Parable Of The Madman” by Friedrich Nietzsche, who was the madman and what did his light represent? _______________ was the madman and his light was “the advent of __________”, or “loss of all values”, or “moorings”, or “metanarrative”.
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Nietzsche - Nihilism

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  1. Who was the famous writer who proved he could be happy in his own death?
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Ernest Hemingway

50
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  1. Who became who Hitler read the most?
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Nietzsche

51
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  1. What concept of Nietzsche’s did Hitler use?
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Will to power

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  1. In Jean-Paul Sartre’s “theater of the absurd” how did people demonstrate life has no meaning and no God out there?
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By killing themselves

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  1. What description did Sartre give life? “Life is like a __________________ in the middle of the ocean.
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Colony of ants on a burning log

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  1. What was the unexpected revolt that showed the death of liberalism? Karl Barth’s _________________.
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Neo-orthodoxy

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  1. What did Barth say about the Bible? We _______________.
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Can go back to the Bible

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  1. What does Neo-orthodoxy give termed the “Grand Admission”? Admits ________________.
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Conservatives were right

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  1. A critique of Barth’s Neo-orthodoxy must ask are the forms of revelation we have adequate? Not adequate to reveal God _____________, but they are adequate to reveal God__________, since He has appointed them to do so.
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exhausting - truly

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  1. How does Bultman argue God revealed himself? Through _______ but he called them “_________”.
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lies - “myths”

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  1. What did Bultmann claim about Jesus? Never _________ but it’s simply meant to impress/impact us (like________________).
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walked on water - Cinderella

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  1. Utilizing Form Criticism what does Bultmann presuppose regarding Scripture? “A________ of Scripture” or “ in historical matters, generally presumed _____________ unless proved otherwise”.
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critical view - unreliable

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  1. According to Bultmann what can some tradition, though a very small amount, bring us close to? The ____________________________.
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Actual teachings of Jesus

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  1. What technique did Bultmann utilize on the Bible?
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Demythologizing

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  1. What was the contribution of Kant?

There is reality; but all we have is perception. But ___________________ some things.

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we must act as if we know

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  1. What was the major contribution of Schleiermacher? Start with the inner self sense of God-consciousness and the moral awareness. Own moral compunctions _________________: I know there’s a God.
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feelings within

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  1. What was the contribution of Kierkegaard?
    Proved there is no way above the line of despair. “Subjective existentialism” or irrational leap. ___________________________.
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There’s no way to really know

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  1. How is liberalism is an unsolvable dilemma?

Descends from Schleiermacher and his emphasis on “feelings” and ___________________________ and doctrine.

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an elimination of revelation

67
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  1. How was the old liberalism bankrupted? Couldn’t ___________.
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find answers in its search

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  1. How is the new liberalism pessimistic? Says ________________________________.
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we cannot ever find answers

69
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  1. How does old liberalism answer, “Can we find answers?
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yes, there are answers

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  1. How does new liberalism answer, “Can we find answers?”
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no, there are no answers

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