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| a problem that needs resolved |
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| a process, the character is changed by the end of the story |
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1. The non-rational and rational side of religious experience
2. mysterium tremendum
3. schemes of the holy
4. the holy as a priori (we were made to experience the divine
5. divination |
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| five steps of mysterium tremendum |
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1. awe-fulness
2. overpoweringness
3. energy or urgency
4. wholly other
5. fascination vs repulsion |
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| all things being equal the simplest explanation is usually correct |
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| -Edward J. Carnell, Charles Hodge, BB Warfield, GC Berkouwer, Bernard Ramm, Carl F. Henry, Harold Lindsell, Francis Schaeffer, George Ladd, Paul Jewett |
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1. inerrant and infallible Bible
2. "Natural" Biblica interpretation (literal)
3. individual salvation from sin through Christ's substitutionary atonement
4. the deity of Jesus Christ, usually tied to Virgin birth
5. miraculous supernaturalism"= the intervention of God in the processes of this world
6. a resistance to biblical critical tools and the conclusions of modern science
7. a minimum concern for social ethics and the socio-political implications of the NT |
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| L. Harold DeWolf, Adolf Von Harnack, Rufus Jones, Walter Rauschenbusch, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Paul Tillich, Elton Trueblood, Georgia Harkness |
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-the illumination view-experience of the Holy, heightened sense of "truth" writes about experience
-the dynamic view (inspires thoughts without words, allows the writer to use the language appropriate to his social location) |
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-the dictation view:exact wording from H.S., human=passive instrument, inerrant truth
-the plenary verbal view-HS inspires thoughts, human thinks and writes (limits human error)(a bit like telephone/rumor) |
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-the "inspiration of the formation of the tradition" view-1. the formation of the traditions of Israel & the church 2. the process of making tradition into scripture 3. the endeavor to define the limits of the canon
-the "inspiration of the history of traditions" view-inspiration not necessarily in the writings or the writers but in the realities they write about |
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1. The immanence of God
2. optimistic view of human potential
3. the affirmation of modern science
4. revelation conceptually broadened and tested through reason and experience
5. the celebration of the historical-critical method and its liberating conclusions
6. the authority of the "historical Jesus" rather than "the Christ" of the church
7. a denial of the traditional idea of "original sin" |
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William Horden
Karl Barth
Emil Brunner
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Reinhold Niebuhr
H. Richard Niebuhr
John Baille
Donald Baille
Rudolf Bultmann |
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1. primacy of God's initiative in divine revelation
2. a profound sense of the transcendence of God
3. the acceptance of a non-doctrinaire biblical criticism and the revolutionary findings of modern science
4. the authority of the Bible as the indispensable witness to God's revelation, but 'infallibility' rejected historically and theologically
5. the analysis of each literary form in biblical interpretaion, affirming a 'natural' interpretation where feasible, but refusing to accept a literary structure as binding
6. the affirmation of the Incarnation in Christ but apart from the necessity of the virgin birth and/or historicity of the birth narratives
7. acknowledgment of 'radical evil' i.e.original sin
8. accentuation of the cross and resurrection of J.C.
9. a concern for reconciliation which embraces the individual and society |
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