Whole Test Flashcards

1
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Why is all modern theology based on kant?

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Failed philosophical assumptions

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2
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Introducing the rationalist Demise Kant was so persuasive that he ultimately proved what?

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Not possible to start with reason.

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3
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What was kant important in doing?

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Bringing liberalism to a dead end

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4
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What was “dead end” of Kant’s philosophy that’s never been refuted?

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“if you start without God there is no hope”

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5
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What did post-modernism do?

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Put God back in.

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6
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What did kant say we ought to assume?

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Certain things are true

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Kant argued God, freedom and mortality must be presupposed for the sake of moral decision-making, what must we do?

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Act as if God exists.

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8
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According to Kant what must ethics and theology never be bound by?

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Any alleged revelation

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9
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Kant urges us to “act as if God exists” but how?

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Only in certain artificially compartmentalized areas of life.

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10
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What is gone by the time of Kant?

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Rationalism’s hope of drawing a circle To encompass all thought and life is gone.

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What does Kierkegaard let go of?

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The hope of A unified field of knowledge.

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12
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What are the three precursors to liberalism?

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Deism
Naturalism
Unitarianism

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13
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What was the basis of liberalism?

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Rationalism and Reason

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14
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In whom do we see the beginning of a Christian liberalism?

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Schleiermacher

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15
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What did Schleiermacher start with?

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Started with a rejection of the Bible but not God.

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16
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How did Schleiermacher say we should return to the Bible?

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Without Reason

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17
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What did Schleiermacher say you could have without the Bible?

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Hope

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18
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What did Schleiermacher claim about Jesus?

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Jesus was the most God conscious man that ever lived

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19
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What is the ultimate standard for theology to Schleiermacher?

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Experience or feeling

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20
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What was scripture described as and where did it come from according to Schleiermacher?

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Scriptures have arisen out of the Christian religion They are themselves a human attempt to express religious affections in words

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21
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How does Schleiermacher build on Descartes?

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Descartes said I think and Schleiermacher said I feel.

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22
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What three things does Jesus/Bible have to do with truth according to Schleiermacher?

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The Bible is a ‘reflection’ of the moral awareness in the Hebrew people. Jesus was the most ‘God conscious’ man that ever lived but there were others. God is ‘totally’ transcendent and we are incapable of touching him.

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23
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Schleiermacher wins the day philosophically except for who?

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Azuza street

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24
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In the so-called search for the historical Jesus what was not being looked for?

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Seeing if the historical was real

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25
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What were liberals looking for in this search?

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The ‘real’ not the ‘lies in the Bible’

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26
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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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Social gospel

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27
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What four conclusions did Albert Sweitzer ultimately decide about finding the historical Jesus?

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There is no credible history of Jesus. The reason? It can’t be found. You can’t… he believes he’s closing the door (Jesus is a nobody.)

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28
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What three theologies are born out of this “ultimate pessimism”?

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God is dead; social gospel; liberation theology.

29
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What was Adolf van Harnack seeking to find?

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

30
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What did van Harnack believe about Jesus?

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Thought Jesus was a noble leader.

31
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What progression is found by the time of van Harnack regarding Christ?

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From the God conscious to just a noble leader great guy but not God.

32
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Hegel reframed truth how?

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“Thesis – anti-thesis = synthesis.”

33
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Who was the father of postmodernism?

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Kierkegaard

34
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What did Kierkegaard show?

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There’s no way to know spiritual truth from reason.

35
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How does Kierkegaard cross the line of despair?

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Because in a fact there’s only an irrational Leap left to find God

36
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What is Kierkegaard greatest new solution?

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His view of existentialism.

37
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What did Kierkegaard separate resulting in the final step of liberalism?

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Religious from the real.

38
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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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How does Kierkegaard set the stage for postmodernism?

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Through subjective existentialism

40
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What does Kierkegaard say about truth and faith?

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“There’s no real truth in faith.”

41
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What is the only source of hope for Kierkegaard?

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There’s only hope in the Leap.

42
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What admission do we have in Kierkegaard?

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You’ll never know or religion is not an answer it’s just faith.

43
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What according to Kierkegaard is a necessity of faith?

A

Doubt

44
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With everything being subjective where does Kierkegaard land?

A

Lands on the side of despair.

45
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What is essential to us having modernism?

A

Darwinism

46
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What couldn’t existentialism avoid?

A

The despair of liberalism

47
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What was Nietzsche’s attempt at a life-affirming alternative to pessimism?

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A “transvaluation of all values.”

48
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In the “parable of the madman” by Frederick Nietzsche who was the man man and what was did his light represent?

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Nietzsche was the man man and his light was the “the advent of nihilism”, or “loss of all values”, or “moorings”, or “metanarrative”.

49
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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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Who became who Hitler read the most?

A

Nietzsche

51
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What concept of Nietzsche did Hitler use?

A

“Will of power”

52
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In John Paul Sartre Hayes “theater of absurd” how did people demonstrate life has no meaning and no God out there?

A

Suicide

53
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What description did sartre give life?

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“Life is like a colony of ants on the Burninglog in the middle of the ocean.”

54
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What was the unexpected revolt that showed the death of liberalism?

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Karl Barth’s Neo-orthodoxy

55
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What did Barth say about the Bible?

A

We can go back to the Bible

56
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What does Neo-orthodoxy give termed the “grand admission”?

A

Admits conservatives were right

57
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A critique of Barth’s Neo-orthodoxy must ask are the forms of Revelation we have adequate?

A

Not adequate to reveal God exhaustively but they are adequate to reveal God truly since he has appointed them to do so.

58
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How does Bultmann argue God revealed himself?

A

Through lies but he called them “myths”.

59
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What did Bultmann claim about Jesus?

A

Never walked on water but it’s simply meant to impress/impact us like Cindarella.

60
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Utilizing form criticism what does Boltman presuppose regarding scripture?

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“A critical view of scripture” or “in historical matters generally presumed unreliable unless proven otherwise.”

61
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According to Bultman what can some tradition, though a very small amount, bring us close to?

A

The actual teaching of Jesus

62
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What technique did Bultmann utilize on the Bible?

A

Demythologizing

63
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What was the contribution of Kant?

A

There is a reality; but all we have is perception. But must act as if we know some things.

64
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What was the major contribution of Schleiermacher?

A

Start with The inner self sense of God consciousness and the moral awareness. Own moral compunctions. Feelings within: I know there’s a God.

65
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What was the contribution of Kierkegaard?

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Proved there is no way above the line of despair. “Subjective existentialism” or irrational Leap. No way to really know.

66
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How is liberalism an unsolvable dilemma?

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

67
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How was the old liberalism bankrupted?

A

Couldn’t find answers in its search.

68
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How is the new liberalism pessimistic?

A

Says we can never find answers

69
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How does old liberalism answer, “can we find answers?”

A

No, no answers.