Catholic/Lutheran Orthodoxies
What were the forms of orthodoxy typically used for in the 17th/18th centuries?
Used for a political power to enforce church doctrine.
What was the significance of Calvin’s Institute in the formation of Reformed Orthodoxy?
Reformed Orthodoxy was based on it.
Who was the founder of the rationalist movement
Rene’ Descartes
What do spiritualist believe?
God spoke directly to them through the Holy Spirit.
What do Pietist believe?
living a sacred life was more important than having correct doctrines.
What was the Council of Trent? Why did it have a negative attitude towards Protestants?
It was the last ecumenical council recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. It was a response to Martin Luther and the Protestants Reformation.
COT and Protestants had different beliefs and the Protestants were rejected by the church.
Who was Calvin’s Successor?
Jacobus Arminius
Three main theories that were proposed to answer’s Descartes question about the rational and the physical?
(1) occasionalism: suggest that God is the intermediary between the soul and the body. Communicating the souls ideas to the body so that it can react and conversely communicating the body’s sensory stimuli to the soul for the information to be processed. (2.) Baruch De Spinoza suggested a solution called monism, postulating that the soul and the body are really a single substance. (3.) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz proposed the idea of monads (not to be confused with monism because they are completely opposite). He stated that God created an infinite number of monads or substances which are completely separate from one another.
Who was the first noted leader of spiritualism?
Jakob Bohme
What did Pietist reject?
Rationalism
Who were the Jansenist and Jesuits? What made them different?
They were two types of Catholic groups. The Jansenists opposed the Jesuits because they believed in the teaches of the Council of Trent.
What were Arminian’s followers called?
Remonstrants, which put together a document that explained five things in which identified Calvinism.
Who is John Locke?
He believed that the human mind is a tubula rasa, or “empty slate” at birth and is filled with knowledge through experience in life.
Who was the most influential spiritualist? What movement did he found?
George Fox - Quaker Movement
Who was the founder of the Methodist Church?
John Wesley
Lutheran Orthodoxy was based on who’s confession and of what year?
Augsburg Confession of 1530.
What are the two preferred means that eastern Christians saw to explore the realm of the divine?
1. Prayer 2. Contemplation (silence)
According to Locke, what is faith based on?
Revelation
What was Emanuel Swedenborg known for?
Human anatomy
There was a shortage of priest after what revolution?
American Revolution
Who was Martin Luther? And Who was Philipp Melanchthon?
He was the primary interpreter and Philipp took over after him.
One important way that the western and eastern orthodoxy are similar, and What one philosophy did each orthodoxy use as structural glue to hold them together?
They proposed to provide Christian believers with answers to almost any imaginable question about the Christian religion.
According to Locke knowledge is based on what three types of experiences?
(1.) human experiences of themselves (2.) humans experience the world through their senses (3.) human experiences of God is proven through human self- experience (similar to Descarte s’ idea).
After Emanuel Swedenborg death was society and church was founded?
Swedenborg Society and Swedenborg Church (New Church)
Who sent priests to the U.S. with instructions to ordain priest when necessary?
John Wesley