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Catholic Thought in the 20th Century
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Religious Studies
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09/17/2010

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St. Robert Bellarmine
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Jesuit. Disruption on Matters Contraverted During our Time: explained meaning and teachings of the council. He downplayed commonalities of Catholic and Protestants and stressed the differences.
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Galileo
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Supported the Ptolemaic view of a heliocentric universe. Wrote The Starry Messenger.
Three objections by the Church:
-the moving of the earth opposed to then known laws of physics.
-Aristotle said, if earth moved, stellar displacement should be observable.
-Violates the Bible.
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Dechristianization
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A term to describe the actions taken against Roman Catholicism by the French Legislative Assembly and its successor. The revolution brought about the death of some priests and the deportation of a great many more.
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Concordat of 1801
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This marks the end of the revolution's attempt at dechristinization, guaranteed full freedom for Christians to practice their religion. Signed with Napoleon.
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Felecite Lamennais
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Founder of the liberal reaction to French Revolution. He was deeply concerned with the revitalization of society. He came to the conclusion that the CHurch should be independent of royal control, since he now believed that the governmental interference restricted the freedom of the Church. He was the founder of the journal L'Avenir.
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L'Avenir
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It rejected the divine right of kings philosophy. It also favored freedom of conscience and of religious worship, the separation of church and state, the discontinuations of the financial support of the clergy by the government, and freedom of education, of the press, and of assembly.
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Mairai Vos
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Written by Pope Gregory XVI, 1832. In this letter, he spoke out in strong support of the union of church and state, condemned indifferentism, freedom of conscience, of the press, and of speech, and what he thought was a general tendency to accept liberal ideas in an unqualified fashion.
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Quanta Cura
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Written by Pope Pius IX, 1864. Syllabus of the Chief Errors of Our Times. Condemning:
Everyone is free to accept their own religion.
Any religion leads to external salvation.
Separation of church and state.
Church is not the only church of the state.
Pople should reconcile himself with progress and modern civilization.
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Septuagint
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The Old Testament translated into Greek in Alexandria, Egypt. 7 books were added, totaling 46 books.
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Vulgate
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The Septuagint was translated by St. Jerome into Latin.
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Rosetta Stone
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Champollion was about to break the Hieroglyphic code by using this stone of three languages (Hieroglyphics, Demotic, Greek). All told the same story celebrating the first anniversary of Ptolemy V in 196BC.
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Henry Rawlinson
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Translated Cuneiform language.
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Ugaritic
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This was the language used by the Cannanities. Jews borrowed this language, their music, and poetry.
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Divino Afflante Spiritu
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Pope Pius XII, 1943. Allowed the use of biblical criticism discoveries. This opened doors to a lot of biblical scholarship and lead to changes in theological thinking.
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Humani Generis
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Pope Pius XII, 1950. This effectively reversed the openness of the previous letter and plunge
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Aeterni Patris
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The aim of the encyclical was to aid and advance the restoration of Christian philosophy, which had fallen into danger and disrepute by adhering to modern trends in secular philosophy, by urging a return to the scholastic thinkers of the Middle Ages, most especially the “Angelic Doctor” St. Thomas Aquinas.
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John Carroll
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The first bishop of the United States. He was elected by his 25 fellow priests. He was from a rich, prominent family. He and his uncle went to Canada to try to rally support against the British. He was a founder of Georgetown. He made mass in English. He preached in Protestant Churches and spoke to the Congress about Catholics being good citizens.
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John England
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Bishop of Charleston, SC from Ireland. He published an English Catechism. Established the first Catholic seminary in the US. Established first Catholic newspaper. Often preached in Protestant churches. Also spoke to Congress.
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John Hughes
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Bishop of NYC from Ireland. He was an authoritarian, anti-Protestant. He started St. Patrick's Cathedral and held the church together against attacks.
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Isaac Hecker
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Founder of Paulist Fathers.
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Dorothy Day
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An American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert. She cofounded the Catholic Worker Movement.
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John A Ryan
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A leading moral theologian, priest, professor, author, and social justice advocate.
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1st Vatican Council
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-1869
-Infallibly of the church.
-Faith, consisting of four chapters holding chiefly that God is personal, that man knows God by reason and revelation, that faith is a supernatural virtue, and that faith and reason are complementary, never contradictory.
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Summa Theologiae
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St. Thomas Aquinas: Three volumes:
I. Why he believes the Bible is God's word. Trinity. Creation of all things, humans as image of God.
II. Morality faith, hope charity, moral virtues/vices.
III. Jesus Christ power gives to Christians, seven sacraments, gifts of Holy Spirit.
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Summa Contra Gentes
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St. Thomas Aquinas: Statement against philosophers.
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De Smedt problems with the past approach.
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-Institutionalism: stress church as an institution as opposed to the people of God.
-Clericalism.
-Triumphalism: the church can do no wrong.
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Torah
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First five books of the Bible.
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Tanakh
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The whole Hebrew Bible. 39 books total.
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Bishop Trends
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-Americanizers: assimaliationists.
-Anti-Americanizers: ghetto mentality.
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Fundamentalists
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-Believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible.
-Reject all biblical criticism.
-Denounce eccumenable movement.
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Curtis Lee Laws
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-Fundamentalist: Baptist minister.
-Watchmen-Examiner.
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Bob Jones Jr.
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Fundamentalist: Greenville University founder SC.
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Jerry Falwell
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Fundamentalist: Founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University.
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Evangelical
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-Broke away from Fundamentalists in 1850s. They are conservative, but open.
-Open to biblical criticism.
-More open to relationship with other Christians.
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Billy Graham
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Evangelical Reverend and outstanding Christian preacher.
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Josh McDowell
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Evangelical author of Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
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Main Line
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-80% of Christians.
-Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, United Methodist, Presprytarian.
-Use biblical criticism.
-Symbolism in services.
-Believe in fundamentals.
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"Liberal"
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A person of group who deny one or more fundamentalist teachings of the Church.
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James Pike
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Liberal author of If This Be Heresy. He did not believe in the Trinity.
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Unitarian-Universalist Church
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Liberal church. It broke away from congrigational church.
-There is no trinity, and man is basically good.
-Highly educated people who stress social justice.
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Radical
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-Deny inspiration of the Bible.
-Not one Christian church is valid.
-Jesus was the only true Christian.
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Thomas Altizer
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Radical professor of Methodist school. Also coauthored Radical Theology and the Death of God.
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William Hamilton
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Radical professor who also coauthored Radical Theology and the Death of God.
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Pope John XXIII
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-Elected in 1958.
-His life was not lived in Rome.
-He was a Rome rep. in Bulgaria, France and Cardinal in Venice.
-"We have to open the windows to the Holy Spirit."
-Called Vatican II.
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Ultra Montinism
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Conservative reaction to French Revolution.
They wanted things to go back to exactly the way they were before. This view dominated.
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