19th c. Foundations
Comment
Spring 2021
Created: 2021-02-27 Sat 17:49
Triumphant sense of history presentations
Europe Rejecting the Enlightenment
- Europe and America took different routes away from the Enlightenment
- American theologians emphasized "awakening", "conversion", a new way of seeing things
- On the one hand an appeal to romanticism
- On the other an effort to articulate universal truths
Placement along various continua
This led to divisions along several themes that continue to the present day.
| Theme | ||
|---|---|---|
| Open to Change | Traditional | Progressive |
| Reflecting religious division | Catholic | Protestant |
| Science | Open | Reactive or rejecting |
| Interpretation | Religious language as literal | Figurative |
Definitions
- Romanticism: p.233 change is not always for the best, appreciate national traditions, value feeling over scientific analysis
- Not "natural theology": p. 205 the basic truths about the existence of God and human morality known to good people in all societies
New awareness of History
- Rise of historical criticism since Renaissance
- Skepticism of knowing anything with certainty
- (Spinoza, Hume, Kant, rise of scientific method)