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REL 1350 FINAL
Joe Coker
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2009

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Term
Freidrich Schleiermacher
Definition
  • Modernist movement
  • doing, knowing, feeling
  • awareness of the infinite
  • modes of religious consciousness
    1. self: absolute dependence
    2. sin: deny dependency
    3. forgiveness: produce knowing divine

 

Term
Walter Raushenbusch
Definition

 

  • socialist
  • establish kingdom of God on earth
  • justice & equality

 

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Charles Sheldon
Definition

 

  • In His Steps (1886)
  • emphasis on improving individual situation
  • motto of social gospel
  • "Fatherhood of God & the brotherhood of man"

 

Term
 William Booth
Definition

 

  • founder of the Salvation Army
  • the Christian Revival Society/Christian Mission

 

Term
Modernism & Unitarianism
Definition

 

  • movement that believed in progress
  • doctrine should be updated
  • William Ellery Channing
    • Unitarianism: rejected trinitarianism, reason only
  • Transcendentalism: reaction against idealism

 

Term
Postmillennialism
Definition

 

  • interpretation of Revelation that Christ's 2nd coming after the millennium/Golden age

 

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Inerrancy
Definition

 

  • doctrinal position (Fundamentalist) that in its original form, the Bible is totally without error and free from all contradiction

 

Term
Charles Hodge
Definition

 

  • conservative reaction to Gilded Age
  • Plenary ("full") inspiration of Bible
  • Bible: reliable storehouse of facts
  • Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church
    • New School v. Old School Presbyterians

 

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Fundamentalism
Definition

 

  • attempt to remove Modernism
  • 5 Fundamentals
    1. virgin birth of Jesus
    2. physical resurrection of Jesus
    3. inerrancy of the Bible
    4. substitutionary atonement
    5. physical 2nd coming of Christ

 

Term
John Scopes
Definition

 

  • violated Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution
  • case: Scopes Monkey Trial
  • prosecution: William Jennings Bryan

 

Term
Third Church
Definition

 

  • term used to describe the rise of Christianity outside the Western World, contrasted with the rapid decline of church attendance in North America and Europe

 

Term
Moral Majority
Definition

 

  • political organization that lobbied for evangelical/fundamentalist Christian ideas
  • typical political causes
    • abortion
    • evolution
    • homosexuality
    • school prayer

 

Term
Phoebe Palmer
Definition

 

  • began to speak of instant sanctification
  • Christians should claim perfection
  • caused split in Methodist church in 1860
  • Holiness Movement

 

Term
Charles Parham
Definition
  • Pentecostal Movement
  • Topeka, KS
  • Bethel Bible College
  • 3 Blessings
    • Conversion
    • Sanctification
    • Baptism of the Holy Spirit

 

Term
Keswick Movement
Definition

 

  • England (1840s-50s)
  • Holy Spirit continually counteracts sinfulness
  • gives people power to serve = "baptism of the Holy Spirit"
  • part of Holiness Movement

 

Term
William Seymour
Definition
  • Pentecostal Movement
  • Azusa street revival in LA
  • revivals lasted for months
  • sent missionaries throughout world without knowing languages
  • believed movement would prepare for 2nd coming

 

Term
A. A. Allen/Oral Roberts
Definition

 

  • Pentecostalism
  • Faith healing (1940s)

 

Term
Temperance v. Teetotalism
Definition

 

  • 1830s: new national temperance society
  • moderation v. total abstinence from alcohol
  • rejected use of wine in communion
  • Thomas Welch: Methodist→grape juice

 

Term
Prohibition
Definition

 

  • 1850s: moral suasion→legal prohibition
  • statewide prohibition (Northern states)
  • Arguments: Biblical, social, economic, racial
  • 18th Amendment & 21st Amendment

 

Term
Benjamin Rush
Definition

 

  • doctor from Philadelphia
  • dispelled popular myths about benefits of drinking

 

Term
Carrie Nation
Definition

 

  • "a bulldog running along the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like."
  • attack saloons with a hatchet

 

Term
WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Movement)
Definition

 

  • 1st venue for women to speak out publicly on political topic

 

Term
Richard Niebuhr
Definition

 

  1. Christ against Culture: reject culture (monk)
  2. Christ of Culture: embrace culture
  3. Christ above Culture: coexist with culture
  4. Christ & Culture in paradox: tension/struggle
  5. Christ the Transformer of Culture: church is presence of God in the World

 

Term
Sam Jones
Definition

 

  • "Moody of the South"
  • evangelist & prohibitionist
  • "practical religion"
  • "If the preacher is true to his mission, he cannot avoid political questions."

 

Term
Vatican II/Pope John XXIII
Definition

 

  • called ecumenical council to update the church
    • died after 1st meeting, may not have completely approved of final decisions
  • met over 4 years for a few months
  • reps from Africa, Asia, Latin America
  • reformed Catholic liturgy
    • vernacular
    • preaching Bible
  • Declaration on Religious liberty
  • encouraged ecumenical movement, no WCC

 

Term
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Definition

 

  • liberation theology
  • Peruvian priest & theologian
  • church help poor & oppressed
  • human rights, poverty, social justice
  • sin= exploitive capitalism

 

Term
Karl Barth
Definition

 

  • Swiss theologian
  • cannot speak of God because of humanity
  • dialectical theology/theology of crisis: Gospel brings crisis to culture and religion

 

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Neo-orthodoxy
Definition

 

  • against liberalism which denies reality of sin
  • against fundamentalist conservatism which attempts to control God by defining Him

 

Term
WCC (World Council of Churches)
Definition

 

  • 1948
  • Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed, some Baptist churches join
  • meet every 7/8 years to promote dialogue
  • product of Ecumenical movement

 

Term
Liturgical
Definition

 

  • describes services that have traditional and detailed liturgies that order worship

 

Term
Free-church
Definition

 

  • follows more primitive model for worship
  • non-liturgical

 

Term
Emerging church
Definition

 

  • post modern services
  • creative worship
  • lifestyle more important than beliefs

 

Term
Seeker services
Definition

 

  • Willow Creek Community Church
    • Bill Hybels began as youth minister
    • service was de-sacralized
    • appeal to non-traditional
    • uplifting & non-judgmental
  • Saddleback Church
    • criticized as "dumbed down"
    • post-denominational

 

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