SOCI 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Protestant Reformation, Immanence, Ludwig Feuerbach
13 Nov 2017
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The decline of christianity in the modern west. Simply means the replacement of faith by reason as part of secularization. Means that modern society continually emphasises reason as the way to explain human nature. In modernity there is an ongoing tension between reason and faith, the tension is expressed in competing explanations of the world and human nature. Difference between a literal and metaphorical understanding of religion. Where is the line between a literal and metaphorical interpretation of god drawn. Various parts of the bible were written in different languages, the new testaments was written in greek and at a certain point the bible was completely translated into latin and then into. Jesus did not write anything down and were recorded by his apostles. Even with a literal interpretation of the bible we deal with hermeneutics and how these interpretations warp the message of the original texts. metaphorical understanding. Christianity is not literally true but contains important and powerful ideas.
