Final Study Guide Flashcards
(70 cards)
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- Why is all modern theology based on Kant?
All that follows is based on the ____________________________ of Kant (unable to know); or Kant is wrong & I’ve found a way to prove it.
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Failed philosophical assumptions
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- What was Kant most important in doing?
Bringing liberalism to a _____________________________.
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Dead end
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- What was “dead end” of Kant’s philosophy that’s never been refuted?
“If you ______________________ there is no hope.”
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Start without God
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- Kant shows that if you start without God you can’t know anything and that’s why postmodernism did what?
__________________ back in.
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Put God
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- What did Kant say we ought to assume?
Certain things are ___________, though we can’t prove it by experience.
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True
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- Kant argued God, freedom and immortality must be presupposed for the sake of moral decision making, so what must we do?
We must ____________________________________.
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Act as if God exists
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- According to Kant what must ethics and theology never be bound by?
Any _____________________________.
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Alleged revelation
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- Kant urges us to “act as if God exists” but how?
Only in certain ________________________________ areas of life.
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Artificially compartmentalized
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- What is gone by time of Kant?
Rationalism’s _______________________________________ all thought and life is gone.
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Hope of drawing a circle to encompass
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- What does Kierkegaard let go of?
The hope of a ____________________________________________.
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Unified field of knowledge
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- What are the three precursors to liberalism?
_______________
________________
________________
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Deism, Naturalism, and Unitarianism.
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- What was the basis of liberalism?
__________________ & ________________.
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Rationalism and Reason
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- In whom do we see the beginning of Christian liberalism?
__________________
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Schleiermacher
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- What did Schleiermacher start with?
Started with a ________________________________ but not God.
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Rejection of the Bible
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- How did Schleiermacher say we should return to the Bible?
He says let’s go back to Bible, _____________________________.
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Without reason
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- What did Schleiermacher say you could have without the Bible?
______________
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Hope
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- What did Schleiermacher claim about Jesus?
Jesus was the most _____________________________________.
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God conscious man
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- What is the ultimate standard for theology to Schleiermacher?
“__________________” or “_______________”.
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Experience or feeling
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- What was Scripture described as and where did it come from according to Schleiermacher?
Scriptures “have arisen out of the ________________________;” they are themselves a ___________________ to express religious affections in words.
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Christian Religion and Human attempt
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- Introducing the rationalist demise Kant was so persuasive that he ultimately proved what?
Not possible to start with __________________.
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Reason
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- How does Schleiermacher build on Descartes?
Descartes said, “_______________” & Schleiermacher said, “______________”
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I think - I feel
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- What 3 things does Jesus/Bible have to do with “truth” according to Schleiermacher?
The Bible is a “__________________” of the moral awareness in the Hebrew people.
Jesus was the most “_________________________” that ever lived… but there were others.
God is __________________ transcendent & we’re incapable of touching Him.
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Moral reflection - God conscious man - totally
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- Schleiermacher wins the day philosophically except for who?
____________________________.
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Azusa Street
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- In the so called “search for the historical Jesus” what was not being looked for?
Seeing if the _____________________________ was real.
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Historical Jesus
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25. What were liberals looking for in this search?
The _______________________ (not the _____________________).
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Real Jesus - lies in the Bible
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26. What new way did people create to try to fulfill the role of Church without God based on the notion of the “Brotherhood of man”?
_____________________________
The Social Gospel
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27. What 4 conclusions did Albert Schweitzer ultimately decide about finding the “historical Jesus”?
There is __________________________________ of Jesus.
The reason? It __________________________________.
You can’t ____________________________________.
He believes he’s _________________________ (Jesus is a nobody).
No credible history - can't be found - know what or how Jesus thought - closing the door on the quest
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28. What 3 theologies are born out of this “Ultimate Pessimism”?
____________________________________;
____________________________________;
____________________________________.
God is Dead - Social Gospel - Liberation Theology
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29. What was Adolf Van Harnack seeking to find?
| The “____________________________________” not the truth of Christianity as told in Bible.
Essence
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30. What did Van Harnack believe about Jesus?
| Thought Jesus was ____________________________________.
A Noble Leader
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31. What progression is found by the time of Van Harnack regarding Christ?
From the ____________________________________ to just a _________________________________ (great guy but not God).
God conscious man - Noble Leader
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32. Hegel reframed truth how?
| “________________ - ________________ = ________________.”
Thesis - Antithesis = Synthesis
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33. Who was the father of postmodernism?
| __________________
Soren Kierkegaard
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34. What did Kierkegaard show?
| There’s ____________________________________ spiritual truth through reason.
No way to know
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35. How does Kierkegaard cross the “line of despair”?
| Because in effect there’s ________________________ to “find” God.
Only an irrational leap left
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36. What is Kierkegaard’s greatest new solution?
| His view of ________________________________.
Existentialism
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37. What did Kierkegaard separate resulting in the final step of liberalism?
__________________ from the _______________.
religious - real
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38. Who in the Pentecostal movement makes the same mistake by Kierkegaard in this final step of liberalism?
________________________________
Charismatics
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39. How does Kierkegaard set the stage for postmodernism?
| Through “____________________________________”.
Subjective existentialism
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40. What does Kierkegaard say about truth and faith?
| “There’s _________________________________ in faith.”
No real truth
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41. What is the only source of hope for Kierkegaard? There's only hope __________________________________.
in the leap
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42. What admission do we have in Kierkegaard? You'll ______________________... or _______________ answer... it's just faith.
Never know - religion is not an answer
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43. What according to Kierkegaard is a necessity of faith? ________________
Doubt.
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44. With everything being subjective where does Kierkegaard land? Lands on the side of __________.
Despair.
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45. What is essential to us having modernism?
Darwinism
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46. What couldn't existentialism avoid? The ____________ of liberalism.
Despair
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47. What was Nietzsche's attempt at a life-affirming alternative to pessimism? A "__________________."
Transvaluation of all values
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48. In the "Parable Of The Madman" by Friedrich Nietzsche, who was the madman and what did his light represent? _______________ was the madman and his light was "the advent of __________", or "loss of all values", or "moorings", or "metanarrative".
Nietzsche - Nihilism
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49. Who was the famous writer who proved he could be happy in his own death?
Ernest Hemingway
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50. Who became who Hitler read the most?
Nietzsche
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51. What concept of Nietzsche's did Hitler use?
Will to power
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52. In Jean-Paul Sartre's "theater of the absurd" how did people demonstrate life has no meaning and no God out there?
By killing themselves
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53. What description did Sartre give life? "Life is like a __________________ in the middle of the ocean.
Colony of ants on a burning log
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54. What was the unexpected revolt that showed the death of liberalism? Karl Barth's _________________.
Neo-orthodoxy
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55. What did Barth say about the Bible? We _______________.
Can go back to the Bible
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56. What does Neo-orthodoxy give termed the "Grand Admission"? Admits ________________.
Conservatives were right
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57. A critique of Barth's Neo-orthodoxy must ask are the forms of revelation we have adequate? Not adequate to reveal God _____________, but they are adequate to reveal God__________, since He has appointed them to do so.
exhausting - truly
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58. How does Bultman argue God revealed himself? Through _______ but he called them "_________".
lies - "myths"
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59. What did Bultmann claim about Jesus? Never _________ but it's simply meant to impress/impact us (like________________).
walked on water - Cinderella
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60. Utilizing Form Criticism what does Bultmann presuppose regarding Scripture? "A________ of Scripture" or " in historical matters, generally presumed _____________ unless proved otherwise".
critical view - unreliable
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61. According to Bultmann what can some tradition, though a very small amount, bring us close to? The ____________________________.
Actual teachings of Jesus
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62. What technique did Bultmann utilize on the Bible?
Demythologizing
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63. What was the contribution of Kant?
| There is reality; but all we have is perception. But ___________________ some things.
we must act as if we know
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64. What was the major contribution of Schleiermacher? Start with the inner self sense of God-consciousness and the moral awareness. Own moral compunctions _________________: I know there's a God.
feelings within
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65. What was the contribution of Kierkegaard?
Proved there is no way above the line of despair. "Subjective existentialism" or irrational leap. ___________________________.
There's no way to really know
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66. How is liberalism is an unsolvable dilemma?
| Descends from Schleiermacher and his emphasis on "feelings" and ___________________________ and doctrine.
an elimination of revelation
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67. How was the old liberalism bankrupted? Couldn't ___________.
find answers in its search
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68. How is the new liberalism pessimistic? Says ________________________________.
we cannot ever find answers
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69. How does old liberalism answer, "Can we find answers?
yes, there are answers
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70. How does new liberalism answer, "Can we find answers?"
no, there are no answers
