RELG 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Peace Corps, Anthropocentrism, Fathom

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 270
• Professor: David Goodin

Document Summary

Kant: what is the image of god? rational mind. Points to scriptures and historical science (historical jesus) Love, altruism, laying down your life for the sake of others. Historical conclusion: greatest philosophical and theological good is love. Karl barth: where schweitzer and barth go in opposite directions. Opposed philosophical christianity and scientifically liberal christianity. Starts by scripture alone (sola scriptura) and created his own dogma. Historical science (looking at historical bible etc. ) is not wrong, but there is. Resisted the rise of nazism believed to be involved in a plot to assassinate something else to also keep in mind . Believed there was a holy spirit guiding the writers of the bible this is. Bible is an (cid:498)inspired document(cid:499) displaying divine truth. Divine truth is not literal, it"s philosophical. You can have both, you don"t have to chose. Quote: (cid:498)where schweitzer places life we see the command of god(cid:499)