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| Friedrich Schleiermacher/ Speeches on Religion |
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| This person grew up a Moravian. Also wrote "Speeches of Religion". Tried to persuade sophisticated friends that they could not reject religion. Also published "The Christian Faith". |
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| Feeling of Absolute Depedence |
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| "I did not create myself and did not shape myself, and, beyond all my relations with particular objects in the world. I have a relation with the ground or source of them all." |
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| The 19th Century's greatest philosopher. History is a process by which we come to self understanding. |
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| Dialectic of Three Stages |
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Thesis-there is a thinking subject.
Antithesis- in order to think the subject must have object to think about.
Synthesis-that object is part of the experience of that subject and not really separate from it. |
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| David F. Strauss/ Life of Jesus |
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| This person was a Helagian. He also wrote "The Life of Jesus". He was skeptical of the historical accuracy of Jesus' miracles; to show that God wanted to become one with the world. |
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| Believed Hegel had it backwards. Believed humans invented the idea of God. |
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| The idea that our idea of God really consists just of all our highest ideals put together and personified. |
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| This person was Marx's contemporary. |
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Aesthetic- unfilled, always looking for one more.
Ethical- a loss individuality.
Religious- to believe that God came to be man is absurd. |
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| Pope Pius IX/Syllabus of Errors |
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| This person was elected in 1846. He wrote the Syllabus of Errors. This was a list of eighty propositions Catholics should reject. Condemned rationalism, indifferent to religious doctrine, compromises of traditional Christian ethics, and attacks on Papal power,...etc. |
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| This event took place in 1870. Declared the Pope infallible. "When he defines a doctrine regarding faith and morals to be held by the universal church." |
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| This was a group of Catholic writers who had sought to bring Catholic theology more in line with recent developments in philosophy and historical scholarships. |
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| Oxford movement/John Henry Newman |
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| This person initiated the Oxford Movement, but then converted to Catholicism. This movement had emphasis on doctrine and liturgy. |
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| Charles Darwin/Orgin of Species |
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| (1859) Read on this guy!!!!! |
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Jesus' message consists of three points. One) the Kingdom of God and its coming Two) God the Father and the infinitive value of the human son.
Three) A higher righteousness and the commandment of love. |
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| History of religions school/ Ernst Troeltsch |
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| Christianity had emerged gradually out of a context of Jewish and other Eastern Mediterranean religions. |
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| Albert Schweitzer/ apocalypticism |
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| The expectation of the world will get steadily worse until God brings cataclysm down from heaven to inaugurate the new age. This person said Jesus was wrong. |
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