Shleiermacher Scripture Analysis

This remains the issue today; there are so many people who do not have faith that God is the author of what is written in the Bible, so the purpose of this paper is to show the authority of Scripture.

This book review is from the readings of Biblical Inspiration by Howard Marshall. The book is published by Regent College Publishing located in Vancouver, and British Columbia published the book in 2004. The book is braces around the interpretation of the Bible, and the inspiration of the Bible in our lives of today. There are many questions that are brought up the book, and these include: Is the Bible infallible? How do we interpret the Bible today? is its inspiration believable in and biblical criticism believable? All of the different opinions on biblical issues equivalent to these bring up issues and questioning within the community. It is Marshall’s goal to try and produce a statement that is concrete of what the Bible says in our lives today.

This understanding of Schleiermacher’s religion will become important in our later discussion of the value of Christianity.

Christology from above, associated closely with Rudolf Bultmann, Karl Barth, and Emil Brunner, was born from the idea that rather than studying the historical Jesus as a man, the best study would be of the resurrected Christ, His works and the relationship established by faith from His disciples. The ideas of

Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers led to his description of "the Father of Modern Theology." The first two speeches, "Defence" and "The Nature of Religion" both use established concepts to oppose orthodoxy and establish a new method of theological thought that influences theology to modern times. Paul Tillich and Karl Rahner are also influential, both supporting the vital and intimate relationship between the divine and the human. Furthermore, this essential interrelationship and theology's focus on it are supported by various Christian philosophical/theological thinkers, including Langdon Gilkey, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Blaise Pascal.

When Baptists are called “Bible lovers,” it not only means that they keep biblical principles, but it also indicates that they believe what the Bible says. Although most denominations have given up their position for the authority of the Bible, Baptists in America remain the largest and most organized conservative group for supporting Bible inerrancy. However, the debates over Biblical inerrancy have threatened even the Bible lovers with an unceasing controversy in Baptist history. The issue of “Bible inerrancy” has caused many frictions and wounds among denominations as well as Baptist.

Finally, Cherry concludes her historical “sapiential knowledge” of theology with a look at the Protestant reformer, John Calvin, who pushed for moral change in the life of Christians through their personal knowledge of God. As a result of “sapiential knowledge” throughout the history of the church, Ellen Charry concludes her work with an overview and convincing argument on the role of church doctrine to help cultivate and shape the Christian life towards

Within the given extract Schleiermacher’s account of Christianity is outlined as well as discussions on why exactly he believes it to be the most successful form of religion. While the following essay will

Lane describes Charles Finney as one of the early Evangelicals. Born in 1792, he began preaching and later holding unconventional revivals in 1824. Finney stressed the reality of free will, meaning that man has a choice in the matters of sin. “God tells us what is right and threatens us with sanctions, but the choice is ours” (pp. 253-254). The weakness of Evangelical approach, according to Lane, is that the evangelist tries “to bring about an instantaneous decision of the will rather than a radical change of character which in one sense is a life-long process.” Obviously, Lane’s insistence that Finney’s “system” holds that “the will is totally unconditioned and random” seems to show an opinion that reveals a creeping of moral relativism. Lane insists that Finney held morality to be either/or acts of will, this in opposition the Lane’s concept that morality is a “cultivation of moral character” (p. 254). Finney is also noted by Lane as not believing in the concept of original sin due to his stand on infants not having a sinful nature. However, Finney acknowledges that as the infant develops—reaching an age of moral accountability—sin is a certainty. In this, I think the weakness Lane points out in Evangelicals is, of itself, weak. Augustine, an early church father in 354, viewed and argued that humans can live sinless lives through their natural endowments and are responsible to do so. It’s the catalyst that set off the great controversy over original sin, free will, and

As an academic discipline, theology should share mutual and erudite goals with other academic disciplines: whereas theology strives for historical accuracy, conceptual consistency, interpretive clarity and systematic uniformity, yet it is much more a hope than a science. Also problematic, there is an eternal perspective, a paradigm that we cannot understand. Theology is theory, there are no proofs, the only proof I have is in my heart, and I call that the Spirit of truth (faith). Still, I am conscience that I bring my own set of prejudices, and hopes to this matter. I have good reason to mistrust many of my conclusions. The systematic method of theology looks at many issues wherein much diversity exists, diversity of historical thought, methods, and approaches. Within all this diversity, there are constants. In examining the methods of theology, we must recognize both the diversity and the constancy. One constant is Scripture. Yet, the meaning of Scripture is divers and restricted to interpretation. I think Biblical authority at its best, most earnestly means one does not affirm it as truth without struggling to understand its meaning. I ascribe to a certain authority of scripture, and trust in a divine nature within it. For me, this means addressing questions like: What is the context and the point of this passage? What is it calling me to do? What does this say about the nature of

Calvin, J. ((1559) 2014). Institutes of the Christian Religion. In L. Prescott, & F. Richards, Ideas of Authority (pp. 217-218). Milton Keynes: The Open Univeristy.

Otto was a renowned Lutheran Theologian and a scholar of Comparative religion. He was born in 1869 in Germany near Hanover. He later attended the Gymnasium Andereanum and studied at the university of Erlangen and Gottingen. He wrote his dissertation about understanding the Holy Spirit by Martin Luther. Otto is well thought-out to be one of the most influential thinkers who have ever existed in religion. Otto resisted any effort in the reconciliation of science views and religion views on worldly experiences but again he equally opposed the hostility that was existed between scientist and religion. He is well known for his thorough analysis and his experience on religion views (Broadbent, 2012) (Broadbent, 2012). The purpose of this paper is

There is much debate within evangelicalism about the role of confessions and creeds. In “The Creedal Imperative”, Carl Trueman addresses this by stating his belief that confessions and creeds are “vital to the present and future well-being of the church” through life and through worship (13). Trueman finds it important to argue that confessions and creeds fall in line with the belief that Scripture alone is the main source of revelation and authority, yet also noticing the synthetic and public nature of these documents.

Known as the father of modern liberal theology, Friedrich Schleiermacher was a German theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar who focused his attention on the nature of religious experience from the viewpoint of the individual and human nature itself (Mariña 3). Influenced by German Romanticism, Schleiermacher attempted to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity (Crouter 261). By doing so, he abandoned the pietistic Moravian theology that had failed to satisfy his increasing doubts and he adopted the rational spirit of Christian Wolff and Johann Salomo Semler. He then became acquainted with the techniques of historical criticism of the New Testament and of Johann Augustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. As a result, he began applying ideas from the Greek philosophers to a reconstruction of Immanuel Kant’s system (Mariña 3). On this basis, this essay articulate Friedrich Schleiermacher’s understanding of religion and its relationship to Christianity as described in Speech I: Defense and Speech II: The Nature of Religion of his work On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers. The essay will explore Schleiermacher’s rejection of various views of religion held by the despisers, explain his identification of the true religion with feeling and describe his view of the relationship between religion and Christianity.

Church history reveals that a number of serious biblical doctrinal controversies occurred during the late 1800s and early 1900s that gave occasion for the formulation of certain fundamentalist principals to be implemented as a clarification and remedy against unbiblical manifestations. The authority of the Bible was brought into serious question.