Whole Test Flashcards
Why is all modern theology based on kant?
Failed philosophical assumptions
Introducing the rationalist Demise Kant was so persuasive that he ultimately proved what?
Not possible to start with reason.
What was kant important in doing?
Bringing liberalism to a dead end
What was “dead end” of Kant’s philosophy that’s never been refuted?
“if you start without God there is no hope”
What did post-modernism do?
Put God back in.
What did kant say we ought to assume?
Certain things are true
Kant argued God, freedom and mortality must be presupposed for the sake of moral decision-making, what must we do?
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 artificially compartmentalized areas of life.
What is gone by the time of Kant?
Rationalism’s hope of drawing a circle To encompass all thought and life is gone.
What does Kierkegaard let go of?
The hope of A unified field of knowledge.
What are the three precursors to liberalism?
Deism
Naturalism
Unitarianism
What was the basis of liberalism?
Rationalism and Reason
In whom do we see the beginning of a Christian liberalism?
Schleiermacher
What did Schleiermacher start with?
Started with a rejection of the Bible but not God.
How did Schleiermacher say we should return to the 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 that ever lived
What is the ultimate standard for theology to Schleiermacher?
Experience or feeling
What was scripture described as and where did it come from according to Schleiermacher?
Scriptures have arisen out of the Christian religion They are themselves a human attempt to express religious affections in words
How does Schleiermacher build on Descartes?
Descartes said I think and Schleiermacher said I feel.
What three things does Jesus/Bible have to do with truth according to Schleiermacher?
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.
Schleiermacher wins the day philosophically except for who?
Azuza street
In the so-called search for the historical Jesus what was not being looked for?
Seeing if the historical was real
What were liberals looking for in this search?
The ‘real’ not the ‘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?
Social gospel
What four conclusions did Albert Sweitzer ultimately decide about finding the historical Jesus?
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.)