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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
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George Whitefield

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  • At Oxford with John and Charles Wesley
  • Conducted multiple preaching tours in US
  • More fiery, Calvinist, in 1843 formed Calvinistic Methodist Church
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Wesleyan Theology

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  • Evangelical Arminianism
  • Christian perfectionism through entire sanctification
  • Wesleyan Quadrilateral
  • –4 essential sources and tools of theology: Scripture, Reason, Tradition, and Experience
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Asbury and Coke

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  • In 1771 Wesley sent Francis Asbury to America
  • In 1784, Wesley ordained 2 lay preachers as priest and Thomas Coke as superintendent and sent them to America; instructed Coke to ordain Asbury as superintendent
  • Both referred to themselves as bishops
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Methodist Episcopal Church of America

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-Organized by Asbury and Coke in 1784

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Puritan Heritage

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  • Early Puritans put a stress on relating an experience of conversion as prerequisite to full church membership
  • Only men who were in full communion with the church had a role in the colonies public life and could vote
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Massachusetts/New England

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-English Separatists/Puritans (Mayflower)

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Rhode Island

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-Baptists

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Virginia/Jamestown

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-Anglican

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Maryland

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-Catholics

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New York

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Dutch Reformed

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Pennsylvania

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Quakers

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Half-way covenant

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Instituted in 1662 so that children of second generation Puritans could bring their children for baptism and half-way membership

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Roger Williams

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  • Mission to Indians
  • First Baptist church in America
  • Stand for religious liberty
  • Separation of church from state
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Bloody Tenent of Persecution

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  • By Roger Williams
  • Published in 1644
  • Plea for religious liberty with examples of persecution
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Distinctives of Early American Christianity

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  • English Culture
  • Protestant
  • Diverse
  • Greater dependence of laity
  • Separation of Church and State
  • Denominationalism
  • Expectant Vision
  • Large, unchurched populations
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Stoddard

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  • Not concerned about style

- Credited with beginning the first era of active evangelism in America

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Frelinghuysen

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  • Blunt preaching and withholding Lord’s Supper led to much opposition
  • Conversions ended opposition
  • In 1726, personal counseling in homes sparked revival
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Jonathan Edwards

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  • “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

- Characteristic of Great Awakening was sense of personal sin and repentance from that sin

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Whitefield

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  • In England, frequently preached to thousands, but often pulpits were closed to him, so he preached in open fields
  • Extemporaneous, dramatic sermons

History of the Church 2 (6 decks)

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