Final Study Guide Flashcards
- 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.
Failed philosophical assumptions
- What was Kant most important in doing?
Bringing liberalism to a _____________________________.
Dead end
- What was “dead end” of Kant’s philosophy that’s never been refuted?
“If you ______________________ there is no hope.”
Start without God
- Kant shows that if you start without God you can’t know anything and that’s why postmodernism did what?
__________________ back in.
Put God
- What did Kant say we ought to assume?
Certain things are ___________, though we can’t prove it by experience.
True
- Kant argued God, freedom and immortality must be presupposed for the sake of moral decision making, so what must we do?
We must ____________________________________.
Act as if God exists
- According to Kant what must ethics and theology never be bound by?
Any _____________________________.
Alleged revelation
- Kant urges us to “act as if God exists” but how?
Only in certain ________________________________ areas of life.
Artificially compartmentalized
- What is gone by time of Kant?
Rationalism’s _______________________________________ all thought and life is gone.
Hope of drawing a circle to encompass
- What does Kierkegaard let go of?
The hope of a ____________________________________________.
Unified field of knowledge
- What are the three precursors to liberalism?
_______________
________________
________________
Deism, Naturalism, and Unitarianism.
- What was the basis of liberalism?
__________________ & ________________.
Rationalism and Reason
- In whom do we see the beginning of Christian liberalism?
__________________
Schleiermacher
- What did Schleiermacher start with?
Started with a ________________________________ but not God.
Rejection of the Bible
- How did Schleiermacher say we should return to the Bible?
He says let’s go back to Bible, _____________________________.
Without reason
- What did Schleiermacher say you could have without the Bible?
______________
Hope
- What did Schleiermacher claim about Jesus?
Jesus was the most _____________________________________.
God conscious man
- What is the ultimate standard for theology to Schleiermacher?
“__________________” or “_______________”.
Experience or feeling
- 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.
Christian Religion and Human attempt
- Introducing the rationalist demise Kant was so persuasive that he ultimately proved what?
Not possible to start with __________________.
Reason
- How does Schleiermacher build on Descartes?
Descartes said, “_______________” & Schleiermacher said, “______________”
I think - I feel
- 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.
Moral reflection - God conscious man - totally
- Schleiermacher wins the day philosophically except for who?
____________________________.
Azusa Street
- In the so called “search for the historical Jesus” what was not being looked for?
Seeing if the _____________________________ was real.
Historical Jesus
25. What were liberals looking for in this search? The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (not the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_).
Real Jesus - lies in the Bible
- 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”?
_____________________________
The Social Gospel
- 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).
No credible history - can’t be found - know what or how Jesus thought - closing the door on the quest
- What 3 theologies are born out of this “Ultimate Pessimism”?
____________________________________;
____________________________________;
____________________________________.
God is Dead - Social Gospel - Liberation Theology
- What was Adolf Van Harnack seeking to find?
The “____________________________________” not the truth of Christianity as told in Bible.
Essence
- What did Van Harnack believe about Jesus?
Thought Jesus was ____________________________________.
A Noble Leader
- What progression is found by the time of Van Harnack regarding Christ?
From the ____________________________________ to just a _________________________________ (great guy but not God).
God conscious man - Noble Leader
- Hegel reframed truth how?
“________________ - ________________ = ________________.”
Thesis - Antithesis = Synthesis
- Who was the father of postmodernism?
__________________
Soren Kierkegaard
- What did Kierkegaard show?
There’s ____________________________________ spiritual truth through reason.
No way to know
- How does Kierkegaard cross the “line of despair”?
Because in effect there’s ________________________ to “find” God.
Only an irrational leap left
- What is Kierkegaard’s greatest new solution?
His view of ________________________________.
Existentialism
- What did Kierkegaard separate resulting in the final step of liberalism?
__________________ from the _______________.
religious - real
- Who in the Pentecostal movement makes the same mistake by Kierkegaard in this final step of liberalism?
________________________________
Charismatics
- How does Kierkegaard set the stage for postmodernism?
Through “____________________________________”.
Subjective existentialism
- What does Kierkegaard say about truth and faith?
“There’s _________________________________ in faith.”
No real truth
- What is the only source of hope for Kierkegaard? There’s only hope __________________________________.
in the leap
- What admission do we have in Kierkegaard? You’ll ______________________… or _______________ answer… it’s just faith.
Never know - religion is not an answer
- What according to Kierkegaard is a necessity of faith? ________________
Doubt.
- With everything being subjective where does Kierkegaard land? Lands on the side of __________.
Despair.
- What is essential to us having modernism?
Darwinism
- What couldn’t existentialism avoid? The ____________ of liberalism.
Despair
- What was Nietzsche’s attempt at a life-affirming alternative to pessimism? A “__________________.”
Transvaluation of all values
- 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”.
Nietzsche - Nihilism
- Who was the famous writer who proved he could be happy in his own death?
Ernest Hemingway
- Who became who Hitler read the most?
Nietzsche
- What concept of Nietzsche’s did Hitler use?
Will to power
- In Jean-Paul Sartre’s “theater of the absurd” how did people demonstrate life has no meaning and no God out there?
By killing themselves
- What description did Sartre give life? “Life is like a __________________ in the middle of the ocean.
Colony of ants on a burning log
- What was the unexpected revolt that showed the death of liberalism? Karl Barth’s _________________.
Neo-orthodoxy
- What did Barth say about the Bible? We _______________.
Can go back to the Bible
- What does Neo-orthodoxy give termed the “Grand Admission”? Admits ________________.
Conservatives were right
- 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.
exhausting - truly
- How does Bultman argue God revealed himself? Through _______ but he called them “_________”.
lies - “myths”
- What did Bultmann claim about Jesus? Never _________ but it’s simply meant to impress/impact us (like________________).
walked on water - Cinderella
- Utilizing Form Criticism what does Bultmann presuppose regarding Scripture? “A________ of Scripture” or “ in historical matters, generally presumed _____________ unless proved otherwise”.
critical view - unreliable
- According to Bultmann what can some tradition, though a very small amount, bring us close to? The ____________________________.
Actual teachings of Jesus
- What technique did Bultmann utilize on the Bible?
Demythologizing
- What was the contribution of Kant?
There is reality; but all we have is perception. But ___________________ some things.
we must act as if we know
- 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.
feelings within
- What was the contribution of Kierkegaard?
Proved there is no way above the line of despair. “Subjective existentialism” or irrational leap. ___________________________.
There’s no way to really know
- How is liberalism is an unsolvable dilemma?
Descends from Schleiermacher and his emphasis on “feelings” and ___________________________ and doctrine.
an elimination of revelation
- How was the old liberalism bankrupted? Couldn’t ___________.
find answers in its search
- How is the new liberalism pessimistic? Says ________________________________.
we cannot ever find answers
- How does old liberalism answer, “Can we find answers?
yes, there are answers
- How does new liberalism answer, “Can we find answers?”
no, there are no answers
