Whole Test

Question 1

Why is all modern theology based on kant?

Answer 1

Failed philosophical assumptions

Question 2

Introducing the rationalist Demise Kant was so persuasive that he ultimately proved what?

Answer 2

Not possible to start with reason.

Question 3

What was kant important in doing?

Answer 3

Bringing liberalism to a dead end

Question 4

What was “dead end” of Kant’s philosophy that’s never been refuted?

Answer 4

“if you start without God there is no hope”

Question 5

What did post-modernism do?

Answer 5

Put God back in.

Question 6

What did kant say we ought to assume?

Answer 6

Certain things are true

Question 7

Kant argued God, freedom and mortality must be presupposed for the sake of moral decision-making, what must we do?

Answer 7

Act as if God exists.

Question 8

According to Kant what must ethics and theology never be bound by?

Answer 8

Any alleged revelation

Question 9

Kant urges us to “act as if God exists” but how?

Answer 9

Only in certain artificially compartmentalized areas of life.

Question 10

What is gone by the time of Kant?

Answer 10

Rationalism’s hope of drawing a circle To encompass all thought and life is gone.

Question 11

What does Kierkegaard let go of?

Answer 11

The hope of A unified field of knowledge.

Question 12

What are the three precursors to liberalism?

Answer 12

Deism
Naturalism
Unitarianism

Question 13

What was the basis of liberalism?

Answer 13

Rationalism and Reason

Question 14

In whom do we see the beginning of a Christian liberalism?

Answer 14

Schleiermacher

Question 15

What did Schleiermacher start with?

Answer 15

Started with a rejection of the Bible but not God.

Question 16

How did Schleiermacher say we should return to the Bible?

Answer 16

Without Reason

Question 17

What did Schleiermacher say you could have without the Bible?

Answer 17

Hope

Question 18

What did Schleiermacher claim about Jesus?

Answer 18

Jesus was the most God conscious man that ever lived

Question 19

What is the ultimate standard for theology to Schleiermacher?

Answer 19

Experience or feeling

Question 20

What was scripture described as and where did it come from according to Schleiermacher?

Answer 20

Scriptures have arisen out of the Christian religion They are themselves a human attempt to express religious affections in words

Question 21

How does Schleiermacher build on Descartes?

Answer 21

Descartes said I think and Schleiermacher said I feel.

Question 22

What three things does Jesus/Bible have to do with truth according to Schleiermacher?

Answer 22

The Bible is a ‘reflection’ of the moral awareness in the Hebrew people. Jesus was the most ‘God conscious’ man that ever lived but there were others. God is ‘totally’ transcendent and we are incapable of touching him.

Question 23

Schleiermacher wins the day philosophically except for who?

Answer 23

Azuza street

Question 24

In the so-called search for the historical Jesus what was not being looked for?

Answer 24

Seeing if the historical was real

Question 25

What were liberals looking for in this search?

Answer 25

The 'real' not the 'lies in the Bible'

Question 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?

Answer 26

Social gospel

Question 27

What four conclusions did Albert Sweitzer ultimately decide about finding the historical Jesus?

Answer 27

There is no credible history of Jesus. The reason? It can't be found. You can't... he believes he's closing the door (Jesus is a nobody.)

Question 28

What three theologies are born out of this "ultimate pessimism"?

Answer 28

God is dead; social gospel; liberation theology.

Question 29

What was Adolf van Harnack seeking to find?

Answer 29

The "essence of Christianity" not the truth of Christianity as told in the Bible.

Question 30

What did van Harnack believe about Jesus?

Answer 30

Thought Jesus was a noble leader.

Question 31

What progression is found by the time of van Harnack regarding Christ?

Answer 31

From the God conscious to just a noble leader great guy but not God.

Question 32

Hegel reframed truth how?

Answer 32

"Thesis – anti-thesis = synthesis."

Question 33

Who was the father of postmodernism?

Answer 33

Kierkegaard

Question 34

What did Kierkegaard show?

Answer 34

There's no way to know spiritual truth from reason.

Question 35

How does Kierkegaard cross the line of despair?

Answer 35

Because in a fact there's only an irrational Leap left to find God

Question 36

What is Kierkegaard greatest new solution?

Answer 36

His view of existentialism.

Question 37

What did Kierkegaard separate resulting in the final step of liberalism?

Answer 37

Religious from the real.

Question 38

Who in the Pentecostal movement makes the same mistake by Kierkegaard in this final step of liberalism?

Answer 38

Charismatics

Question 39

How does Kierkegaard set the stage for postmodernism?

Answer 39

Through subjective existentialism

Question 40

What does Kierkegaard say about truth and faith?

Answer 40

"There's no real truth in faith."

Question 41

What is the only source of hope for Kierkegaard?

Answer 41

There's only hope in the Leap.

Question 42

What admission do we have in Kierkegaard?

Answer 42

You'll never know or religion is not an answer it's just faith.

Question 43

What according to Kierkegaard is a necessity of faith?

Answer 43

Doubt

Question 44

With everything being subjective where does Kierkegaard land?

Answer 44

Lands on the side of despair.

Question 45

What is essential to us having modernism?

Answer 45

Darwinism

Question 46

What couldn't existentialism avoid?

Answer 46

The despair of liberalism

Question 47

What was Nietzsche's attempt at a life-affirming alternative to pessimism?

Answer 47

A "transvaluation of all values."

Question 48

In the "parable of the madman" by Frederick Nietzsche who was the man man and what was did his light represent?

Answer 48

Nietzsche was the man man and his light was the "the advent of nihilism", or "loss of all values", or "moorings", or "metanarrative".

Question 49

Who was the famous writer who proved he could be happy in his own death?

Answer 49

Ernest Hemingway

Question 50

Who became who Hitler read the most?

Answer 50

Nietzsche

Question 51

What concept of Nietzsche did Hitler use?

Answer 51

"Will of power"

Question 52

In John Paul Sartre Hayes "theater of absurd" how did people demonstrate life has no meaning and no God out there?

Answer 52

Suicide

Question 53

What description did sartre give life?

Answer 53

"Life is like a colony of ants on the Burninglog in the middle of the ocean."

Question 54

What was the unexpected revolt that showed the death of liberalism?

Answer 54

Karl Barth's Neo-orthodoxy

Question 55

What did Barth say about the Bible?

Answer 55

We can go back to the Bible

Question 56

What does Neo-orthodoxy give termed the "grand admission"?

Answer 56

Admits conservatives were right

Question 57

A critique of Barth's Neo-orthodoxy must ask are the forms of Revelation we have adequate?

Answer 57

Not adequate to reveal God exhaustively but they are adequate to reveal God truly since he has appointed them to do so.

Question 58

How does Bultmann argue God revealed himself?

Answer 58

Through lies but he called them "myths".

Question 59

What did Bultmann claim about Jesus?

Answer 59

Never walked on water but it's simply meant to impress/impact us like Cindarella.

Question 60

Utilizing form criticism what does Boltman presuppose regarding scripture?

Answer 60

"A critical view of scripture" or "in historical matters generally presumed unreliable unless proven otherwise."

Question 61

According to Bultman what can some tradition, though a very small amount, bring us close to?

Answer 61

The actual teaching of Jesus

Question 62

What technique did Bultmann utilize on the Bible?

Answer 62

Demythologizing

Question 63

What was the contribution of Kant?

Answer 63

There is a reality; but all we have is perception. But must act as if we know some things.

Question 64

What was the major contribution of Schleiermacher?

Answer 64

Start with The inner self sense of God consciousness and the moral awareness. Own moral compunctions. Feelings within: I know there's a God.

Question 65

What was the contribution of Kierkegaard?

Answer 65

Proved there is no way above the line of despair. "Subjective existentialism" or irrational Leap. No way to really know.

Question 66

How is liberalism an unsolvable dilemma?

Answer 66

Descends from Schleiermacher and his emphasis on "feelings" and elimination and doctrine.

Question 67

How was the old liberalism bankrupted?

Answer 67

Couldn't find answers in its search.

Question 68

How is the new liberalism pessimistic?

Answer 68

Says we can never find answers

Question 69

How does old liberalism answer, "can we find answers?"

Answer 69

No, no answers.