RELS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Adolf Von Harnack, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Albrecht Ritschl

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 310
• Professor: Brett David Potter

Document Summary

Rethinking of knowledge/reason and where theology ts in. An ugly ditch between: the accidental truths of history , the necessary truths of reason . History of dogma as a history of mistakes (in particular, the hellenization of. The development of doctrine (john henry newman) Geology and the age of the earth. Reactions conservative backlash in the form of catholic anti-modernism and the rise of protestant fundamentalism. History is not important; the bible stands above things that try to take it apart not. Benjamin war eld, charles hodge, and the princeton school . Can we make a comparison between protestant fundamentalism" and. Enlightenment attitudes towards the necessary truths of reason? . Immanuel kant had already moved religion, and christianity in particular, to the domain of personal ethics and values. Friedrich daniel schleiermahcer god is not a private, moral a air but rather is the. On religion: speeches to its cultured despisers.