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Religion Final
Religion 1350 Dr. Coker
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2009

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Denominational divisions over slavery
Definition

  • MEC South forms due to issue of Bishop Andrew owning slaves
  • The MEC is divided between the North and South
  • SBC (Southern Baptist Convention formed over issue of owning slaves as missionaries

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The Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church
Definition

  • written by Charles Hodge
  • says old & new school Presbyterians should divide
  • Henry Thorwell radicalizes the Doctrine

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Prohibition and Populism
Definition

 

  • The Puritans came to the colonies with 10,000 barrels of beer on the Arabella
  • democrats opposed prohibition
  • voting against democratic party risked racial status quo

 

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Richard Niebuhr's "Christ and Culture"
Definition

  1. Christ AGAINST culture- withdrawl from world
  2. Christ OF culture-combination of Church & State
  3. Christ ABOVE culture-Christ is superior to worldly things
  4. Christ & Culture IN PARADOX- struggle between belief & faith
  5. Christ THE TRANSFORMER of culture- make society in God's image

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Earlier American attitudes toward alcohol
Definition

  • Quaker writes pamphlet saying alcohol is detrimental to the body
  • Methodists prohibit minister from selling alcohol

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Origins of the temperance movement
Definition

  • Methodists make prohibition of minsters to sell alcohol
  • causes formation of first temperance society
  • called for use of alcohol in moderation (no "hard liquor")

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Benjamin Rush
Definition

  • Philly doctor who dispelled popular myths about drinking benefits

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Moral suasion
Definition

  • use of morals to get people to not consume alcohol without making laws against it

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Teetotalism
Definition

  • complete prohibition of all alcohol

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Impact on Lord's Supper
Definition

  • Jesus drank wine at Lord's Supper
  • Thomas Welch replaces wine with grape juice

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Women's Christian Temperance Union
Definition

  • first major issue with actual women involvment

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Carrie Nation
Definition

  • attacked saloon with a hatchet
  • feminist prohibitionist

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National prohibition
Definition

  • 18th amendment making prohibition legal in all 50 states
  • repealed with 21st amendment

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European Theology
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19th Century
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Definition

 

  • German theologian & philosopher
  • wanted to reconcile enlightenment criticisms with Protestant Orthodoxy
  1. Religious self-conscientiousness leads to absolute dependence
  2.  consciousness of our sin leads to deny dependency
  3. consciousness of forgiveness leads to Christ provides consciousness of divine through Church

 

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Religion as a "feeling"
Definition

  • religion is base of all thought & action
  • emphasized feeling in a higher sense
  • this feeling is minimum of anithetic consciousness 

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Focus on sense of utter dependence on the divine
Definition

 

  • we look to religion as higher, organic, sense of reason
  • objectivity is detached observance
  • thinking must stop, for individual to act

 

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Soren Kierkegaard
Definition

  • Copenhagen, Denmark
  • youngest of 7 kids
  • wealthy, educated Lutheran with Moravian influence
  • wanted to reintroduce Christianity into christendom, if possible

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Soren Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms
Definition

 

  • like characters in a novel, represent various points of view that may not be Kierkegaards perspective
  • deal with topics like "what is Christianity?"

 

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Soren Kierkegaard's relationship with brother
Definition

  • refused to see brother as he was dieing because he was a priest

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Soren Kierkegaard's leap of faith
Definition

  • thinking must stop and must make a decisive act
  • faith is proper way to relate with God becacause you can't wait to comprehend him

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Soren Kierkegaard's attitude towards the Church
Definition

 

  • what is good for Denmark is good for Church
  • should be one with the world, priests are state functionaries, everyone is born Christian
  • wrote "Church Militant" (in the world but not part of it)
  • Christianity is a task

 

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Neo-orthodoxy in the 20th century
Definition
  • reaction against 19th century literal theology & reemphasized Reformation
  • transcendence of God, Existentialism, Sin, & Human Nature
  • can't speak of God because we are human

 

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Karl Barth
Definition

 

  • Swiss theologian 
  • started dialectical theology (stressing paradoxical nature of divine truth)
  • attacks liberalism of Schleirmacher because it denies reality of human sin

 

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Critiques of liberalism and conservatism
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Pentecostalism in the 20th century
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Holiness movement vs Pentecostalism
Definition

  • Oberlin College -Ohio
  • Finney says Christians move towards moral perfection
  • progressive sanctification
  • roots in Methodism led to ability for Christians to move towards perfection through love

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Pentecostalism VS charismatic movement
Definition

  • 1960s- mainstream denominations adopt certain practices from Pentecostal Church
  • use baptism, snake handling, faith healing, and raising of hands

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holiness movment
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Phoebe Palmer
Definition

  • spoke of instant sanctification & all Christians should claim perfection
  • caused split in Methodist Church

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Keswick movement 
Definition

  • began in england in 1840s
  • holy spirit continually counteracts sinfullness
  • gives us power to serve (baptism of the Holy Spirit)

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Pentecostalism beginnings
Definition

  • 1900 in Topeka, Kansas

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Charles Parham, Topeka KS
Definition

 

  • starts Bethel Bible College
  • seeks third blessing
  • spoke in tongues that couldn't be understood

 

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William Seymour, Azusa Street, L.A.
Definition

  • believed movement would create a "second coming"
  • revival that lasted for months
  • sent missionaries throughout world without them knowing languages

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"Third Blessing"
Definition

  • Baptism of the Holy Spirit

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"Baptism of the Holy Spirit"
Definition

  • some churches did snake handling because of Biblical verses with snakes

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Speaking in tongues
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faith healing
Definition

  • heal people that have faith in God
  • cast out demons

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A.A. Allen & Oral Roberts
Definition
Charismatic leaders who focused on faith healing in the 1940s
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Modernity and Christian reactions to it
Definition

  • Guilded age was time of radical social & cultural change

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Challenges of modernity
Definition

  • disparity of wealth

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immigration, industrialization, urbanization, darwinism, etc.
Definition

  • immigration- from east Europe
  • industrialization- growth of railroads & disparity of wealth
  • darwinism- undermined belief in human ability to improve world

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conservative reactions = reaffirm external authorities
Definition

 

  • reaffirmed authority of Church confessions
  • reaffirm authority of Catholic church- (oxford movement)
  • reaffirm authority of Pope & Bible (infallibility of Pope)

 

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Inerrancey
Definition
The Bible contains no errors
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Charles Hodge
Definition

  • full inspiration from Bible
  • Bible contains reliable facts

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Fundamentalism
Definition

  • evangelicals who are angry about something
  • sought to rid Christianity of modern sin

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The Fundamentals
Definition

  • 1909-1912
  • established 5 fundamental christian doctrins
  1. virgin birth of Jesus
  2. physical ressurection of Jesus
  3. inerrancy of Bible
  4. substitutionary atonement
  5. physical second coming of Christ

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Scopes Monkey Trial
Definition

  • 1925
  • conservative Christians are successful in banning evolution teaching in school

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Fundamentalism resurgence in politics and denominations
Definition

  • Southern Baptist Convention
  • fundamentalist get control of convention agencies & committees 
  • division within Baptist & Presbyterian denominations

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Moral Majority
Definition
active on topics of abortion, evolution in schools, school prayer, homosexuality, and communism
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Jerry Falwell
Definition

  • american evangelical pastor
  • cofounded Moral Majority
  • socially conservative policies

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Modernism
Definition

  • believed in progress, thought doctrine should catch up with current lifestyles

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Unitarianism
Definition

emphasis on reason

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William Ellery Channing
Definition

  • rejected trinitarianism
  • emphasis on reason

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Transcendentalists
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The Social Gospel
Definition

  • grew in response to labor crises

3 varieties

  1. emphasis on individual sufferer
  2. progressive reformers
  3. socialist

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Salvation Army
Definition

  • emphasis on individual sufferer 
  • founded by William & Catherine Booth in england
  • believed people couldnt receive gospel until material conditions improve

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Walter Rauschenbusch
Definition

  • socialist that sought to establish a kingdom of God on earth
  • would be a place of Justice & equality

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The Ecumenical Movement
Definition

  • different Christian denominations talk about issues
  • desire to unite and work through differences in theology & practice

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Edinburgh Missionary Conference
Definition

 

  • 1910
  • beginning of modern protestant ecumenical movement
  • protestant denominations & missionary societies sent 1200 representatives

 

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World Council of Churches
Definition

  • 1848
  • promote talking between Christians
  • meet every 3 to 4 years
  • includes major denominations except Roman Cath

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Vatican 2
Definition

  • met for 4 years at a time
  • reps from africa, asia, and latin america
  • reformed liturgy (used vernacular and increased preaching of Biblical texts)

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