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Christian Heritage
Baylor Christian Heritage Final
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/09/2010

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Term
John Smith
Definition
-started Mormonism in NY
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Fredrick the Wise
Definition

-Elector of Saxony in Luther's time

-Allows Lutheran changes (but Pious Catholic)

-Helps elect Charles V

Term
Treaty of Tordesillas
Definition

1492

-Post Reconquista (expulsion of Muslims)

-cuts the world in 1/2 between Spain and Portugal

Term
William Jennings Bryan
Definition
Fundamentalist prosecutor in Scopes Trial
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City of Munster
Definition
Anabaptists take over city & Catholics go against them in a siege & win over the city
Term
Rene Descartes
Definition

-Enlightenment

-"I think, therefore I am"

-Catholic

-Radical skeptic

Term
The Scopes Trial
Definition

1925

Court case over the teaching of evolution in schools

William Jennings Bryan: Fundamentalist; Prosecutor

Clarence Darrow: defends Scopes; strong critic of Christianity

Film: Inherit the Wind

Fundamentalists win trial, but Modernists gain higher public opinion

Term
David Hume
Definition

Enlightenment

-Radical Skeptic

Attacks natural theology

-'we area box without windows'

-HATES analogies

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Thomas Cranmer
Definition

Replaces Cardinal Wolsey as Henry VIII's aid

Archbishop of Canterbury

Advances Henry's interests; belief in reform

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Puritans
Definition

Emphasis on holy living and moderation

intent: to purify the church (further Reform)

Distinctives

-Calvinist

-God's providence

-Decline of magic

-Biblical emphasis

-Mother's Prominence

Win w/ Parliament in Civil War

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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Definition

raised in German pietist context

important theologian

wrote "Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers"

-Defends Christianity to Roman critics

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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Definition

important theologian

raised German Pietist context

wrote "Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers"

-defends Christianity to Romantic critics

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