Test Four Flashcards
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Rationalism
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- Keyword: Reason
- Descartes: Father of Modern Philosophy, “I Think, Therefore I Am”
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Empiricism
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- Keyword: Experience
- Definition: All knowledge is derived from sensory experience
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Locke (Empiricism)
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Three levels of experience provided certain knowledge
- Our own selves
- Our experience of environment
- God, who existence is proven by existence of self and its experience
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Hume (Empiricism)
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Used reason to show limits of reason
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Deism
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- Keywords: Impersonal God
- Cherbury: Father of English Deism, Wrote “On Truth”
- Thomas Paine: “I believe in one God and no more”
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Romanticism
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- Keyword: Return to Nature
- Rousseau: Frenchman; reacted against Calvinism and its teachings on depravity and original sin; leader of Romanticism
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Rational Idealism
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- Keyword: subjectivity
- Kant: “There is no such thing as knowledge. All we can know is the thing as our mind grasps it, but not what the thing really is” (Blind men and elephant)
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Pietism (Definition)
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- “Better a live heresy than a dead orthodoxy”
- Authentic Christian faith is genuine experience of inward transformation by God’s Spirit
- Right experience and right living leads to right believing
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Hallmarks of Pietism
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- Inward, experiential Christianity
- Tolerant, irenic Christianity
- Visible Christianity
- Active Christianity: Authentic Christianity should make a difference in society
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Spener
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- Became “heart Christian” who believed that the Reformation needed to be completed in church life and theology
- Founded Collegia Pietatis (pious gatherings), small groups that met in homes and churches for prayer and Bible Study
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Pia Desideria
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- Written by Spener
- “Pious Desires”
- Preaching from entire Bible and small groups
- Priesthood of all believers
- Experience is more important than knowledge
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Francke
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- Before preaching a sermon, recognized that he had “head knowledge” but no “heart experience;” experienced dramatic conversion
- Helped found University of Halle in 1690
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Count Zinzendorf
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- Studied under Francke at Halle
- Renamed his estate Herrnhut (The Lord’s Watch)
- In 1727 sheltered persecuted members of Unity of the Brethren, spiritual descendants of John Huss, also called “Moravians”
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Moravians
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- Spiritual descendants of John Huss
- Love feasts, song services and hymn singing, Easter sunrise services, Foot-washing ceremonies
- Insisted on radical conversion experiences for full membership
- Obsessed with love for wounds of Jesus
- Sent out many missionaries
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Charles Wesley
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- Converted after reading Luther’s preface to Galatians
- Composed over 6,000 hymns
- More sedate, Arminian, Loyal to Church of England and continued to take communion there