Test 6 Flashcards

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French Revolution

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  • Began July 14th, 1789 with the storming of Bastille
  • Culminated in 1792, execution of Louis XVI
  • Conflict over economy
  • Result: Establishment of Republic and “Reign of Terror”
  • “Cult of Reason”
  • –Brand new religion of French Republic
  • –Strongly emphasized rationalism and freedom
  • –Rejected organized religion as superstition
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Hegel

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  • Absolute Idealism: The Absolute idea is that to which all things are related and which is nevertheless self-contained
  • “What is rational exists, and what exists is rational”
  • Three stage process forms basis of Hegelian dialectic logic
  • –Thesis is opposed by
  • –Anti-Thesis which is reconciled in
  • –Synthesis which becomes a new thesis
  • This process continues as history unfolds and progresses until society reaches The Absolute Idea
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Darwin

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Evolution

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Marx

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  • Communism
  • Economic determinism and Dialectical history
  • Communist Utopia: Goal of communism is to produce classless society in which there will be no exploitation of class warfare; each person will produce according to his ability and consume according to his need
  • Atheism
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Freud

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  • Psychoanalysis

- Religion is an illusion that represents a belief system that projects one’s wishes

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Theological Liberalism

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  • Reinterpret and restate Christianity in terms compatible with modern scientific and philosophical viewpoints
  • Accept science and reason but place religious truth in a distinct sphere of understanding
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Modernism

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-Christianity can be explained by scientific categories and deals with social and psychological dimensions of the religious belief structures among people

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Schleiemacher

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  • Father of Liberal theology
  • Religion as sense of absolute dependence…redemption is human’s restoration to true dependence
  • Jesus was not fully God and fully human in the sense of ancient creeds
  • Religious truth comes to and through the Christian community via the corporate experience of redemption
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Wellhausen

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-Taught that the OT Pentateuch was an evolutionary composite of 4 Hebrew traditions

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Schweitzer

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  • Attempted to get behind the Christ of faith to find the “historical Jesus”
  • We should try to discover not what the disciples thought about Jesus but who he really was
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Troeltsch

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  • Humanity’s moral awareness gave rise to all organized religion claims
  • Revelation, with its claims of absolute truth, is incompatible with history, which must be open to revision with new date
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Kierkegaard

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  • Father of Christian Existentialism
  • A Christian must be willing to pay the price, not just belong to the church
  • Mere Christendom is the enemy
  • NT demands a vital, personal commitment of obedience
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Barth

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  • Father of neo-orthodoxy
  • Wrote Romerbrief (commentary on Romans): described as “a bomb going off on the playground of theologians”
  • Church Dogmatics: Worthlessness of reason, one must rely on revelation and faith
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Salvation Army

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  • Founded by William and Catherine Booth
  • Started as Christian Mission in London in 1865
  • Had “Orders and Regulations,” band, uniforms
  • In 1888, first food and shelter outreach
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Plymouth Brethren

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  • Founded by John Nelson Darby
  • Teaching combined Calvinism , Pietism, strong millennial expectations
  • Beliefs: Every Sunday Communion, Priesthood of believers who exercise spiritual gifts, no organized ministry, strict autonomy of local church, strong sense of biblical authority, stress upon missions and evangelism, dispensational premillennial eschatology
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CH Spurgeon

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  • Foremost Baptist preacher of his age

- Strong Calvinist; opposed liberalism; Downgrade Controversy led to split in Baptist Union (1887)

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CS Lewis

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  • Atheist and Oxford professor

- Became a leading Christian apologist and writer of 20th century

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Moody

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  • Interdenominational work, lay participation, social reform
  • Romanticism in Theology
  • –Emphasis on will and emotions
  • –premillennialism
  • –Holiness movement
  • Refined techniques
  • –Careful organization and preparation
  • –Use of women
  • –Gospel music
  • —Separate inquiry room
  • Unity between conservatives and liberals
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Sunday

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  • Baseball player turned evangelist
  • Do-it-yourself (with God’s grace) Gospel message mixed with traditional American moral virtues of decency, patriotism, manliness, thrift, sobriety, piety, and hard work
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Graham

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  • Led many successful crusades
  • Founded Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1950
  • In 1974, Graham instigated International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland
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National Association of Evangelicals

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  • Founded in 1943, “kinder, gentler” fundamentalism

- Harold Ockenga, pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, later president of Fuller Seminary

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Pentecostalism

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  • Early 20th century, grew out of Holiness Movement
  • Characterized by faith healing, speaking in tongues, baptism of the Holy Spirit
  • Charles Parham opened Bethel Bible School in Topeka, KS; New Years Day 1901 Agnes Ozmun became first to speak in tongues
  • William Seymour started Azusa Street Mission (1906) which became origin of Pentecostal movement
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Charismatic Renewal

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Late 1960s, Pentecostal teachings and experiences began to penetrate older Protestant denominations and Catholicism; these neo-Pentecostals became known as Charismatics

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Vatican I

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Declaration of papal infallibility in matters doctrine

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Vatican II and Changes

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  • Pope John 23 convenes council with representatives from Eastern Churches and Protestants (“Separated Brethren”)
  • Church defined as the people of God
  • Liturgy and worship in language of people with use of lay lectors and singers
  • Altar brought forward, priest serves facing the people, who are “assistants”
  • Simplified liturgy with more lay responses, congregational singing, folk masses
  • Communion either received on tongue or in hand; occasional communion of both kinds
  • Street clothes adopted by several orders of nuns
  • Advocacy of religious freedom
  • Advocacy of Bible reading by lay people
  • “Fish Friday” no longer compulsory
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John Paul II

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  • First non-Italian pope since 1523 (Polish)
  • Traditionalist who traveled the world
  • Survived an assassination attempt by a Muslim (1981)
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Various parties in modern Catholicism

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  • Tridentine Traditionalists: resist Vatican II reforms
  • Folk Catholics: Strong emphasis on Virgin Mary (Hispanic Catholics)
  • Reformers: pro-Vatican II and ecumenical outlook
  • Charismatics: fellowship with evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals
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Eastern Orthodoxy differences with Roman Catholicism

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  • More mystical in nature
  • Baptism is by triple immersion
  • Communion is given in both kinds to the laity
  • Infants are confirmed and receive communion immediately after being baptized
  • Accept icons and reject statues
  • Priests may marry prior to ordination
  • Date of Easter is set by the Julian calendar, rather than the Gregorian
  • Purgatory and Immaculate Conception of Mary are not accepted
  • Prayer for recovery in place of extreme unction
  • Church authority rests with the bishops and the authority of General Councils, not the pope
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Moscow: “Third Rome”

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Ivan IV adopted the title “czar” in 1547 signifying his succession of authority from Rome and Constantinople