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Contemporary Theology Mid-Term
for Dr. Schaefer's contemp. theo. mid-term (GCC)
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 4
03/07/2012

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Kant
Definition
* Moral Postulate
* "ought"
* wall of separation between phenomenal and noumenal
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Schleiermacher
Definition
* romantic religious affections
* "Father of Liberal Theology"
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Hegel
Definition
* reasoned ideal
* Jesus in "ideal spiritual terms"
* Spirit is moving central principle moving all of civilization toward the Kingdom of God
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Ristchl/Harnack
Definition
* "Kingdom of Love"
* "Fatherhood of God"
* "Brotherhood of Mankind"
* "the infinite value of the human person"
* "the abiding law of love"
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Kierkegaard
Definition
* true Christianity through the religious stage where suffering humanity meets God in a paradox forcing a choice of a leap of faith: Christ is against the reasons and ways of the world
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Barth
Definition
* meeting the "Wholly Other" God through encounter with Jesus Christ the True Word
* "Father of Neo-Orthodoxy"
* Commentary on Book of Romans
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Bultmann
Definition
* kerygma of Christianity that gives true authenticity to our existence
* "demythologize" Scripture
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Tillich
Definition
* finding our true being in the Ground of Being (ontology) through existential means amidst encounter with the symbolic world of Scripture
* "neo-liberal"
* a hint of "neo-orthodox"
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Process Theology
Definition
* God's suffering and growing with us amidst the flux of the evolutionary process
* "neo-liberal"
* tries to combat secular evolutionism by pointing to a greater "telos"
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Liberation Theology (Latin American)
Definition
* God's preferential option for the poor and seeing the Kingdom as a goal (IDEAL) to be sought in this world
* political theology seeing Scripture as God's call to bring justice to the poor
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Descartes
Definition
* "I think therefore I am"
* a rationalism that identified proof for God by starting with self
* Cartesian Rationalism is named after him
* "innate ideas"
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Locke
Definition
* tried to show proof of Christianity through Empiricism
* mind is a blank slate; we learn through ideas
* rejected Descartes' "innate ideas"
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Teilhard de Chardin
Definition
* "process theology" in Roman Catholic circles
* Omega Point > the Christ
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Whitehead
Definition
* "process theology" in Protestant circles
* "existing occasions"
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Cobb
Definition
* "exemplification Christology"
* "spirit of divine primordial nature"
* Emphasis on Kingdom of God like 19th Century but less optimistic
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H. Richard Niebuhr
Definition
* damned response: a God without wrath who brings men and women without sin to a kingdom without justice by the works of Christ without a cross
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Moltmann
Definition
* Christian Political Liberation Theology leader
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Metz
Definition
* Marxist Liberation Theology leader
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Guiterrez
Definition
* Latin American Liberation Leader
* "father of liberation theology"
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Bonino
Definition
* Protestant Latin America Liberation Leader
* Advocate for Christian Marxism
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Boff
Definition
* Latin America Roman Catholic Liberation Leader
* Was silenced by Ratzinger for 1 year
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Cone
Definition
* most prominent African-American Liberation Theologian
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Daly
Definition
* most radical of the Feminist theologians
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Ratzinger
Definition
* present Pope
* silenced Boff
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Rahner
Definition
* the most influential Roman Catholic theologian of the 20th century
* "meditating theology"
* "transcendental reflection"
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Kung
Definition
* much controversy with the Vatican in the 20th Century.
* "Critical Rationalism"
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