Posted on 03/20/2017 9:30:42 AM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
The modern West’s freefall into the abyss of feelings, entertainment, mindlessness, lawlessness, and thoughtless immoral behavior was largely learned in the academic halls of the 1800’s, with the lion’s share of such attitudes coming out of Germany that fostered an unwarranted amount of skepticism toward the historical truths of the Bible. In particular, the German Enlightenment disregarded the Jewish foundations of the Bible. They sought to separate biblical history from both Jews and Christians because they saw the Bible not only as too superstitious with too many miracles, but also and closely connected, as too limiting, exclusionary, and particularistic ....
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this is only 1/3 correct and should include English of the same era - and finally John Dewey of course
One might want to go back and examine Roman influence and the Catholic Church introduction into Germanic lands.
Up until the mid-to-late 400s...Germans (like all other Roman Empire lands) had been allowed freedom of religion and had various non-Christian religions that existed in the region. Then one day...the Roman Empire no longer had freedom of religion, and you had ‘lose’ your accepted religion and accept the Catholic religion.
Around five-hundred years later...Charlemagne rounded up the regions that weren’t formerly Roman Empire or Catholic dominated territory....and forced with the sword for more Germanic tribes to accept his rule and the destruction of their religions for the Catholic Church.
There’s a long history here where people weren’t given choices, and these were state mandated religions...something that didn’t sell well. Even today...these history lessons are remembered.
The Germans were way ahead of the curve on this - the English were followers.
Yes, the mixing of state with religion is always a dangerous enterprise ....
Dr. Gary Dorrien, the author of “German Idealism and Hegelian Spirit” wrote this in his book, “Liberal theology was born in largely illiberal contexts in the 18th century Germany and England, a fact that helps explain why much of it was far from liberal. Most of the great thinkers in this story were Germans, the key founding fathers were Germans, and there was a vital intellectual movement of liberal theology in Germany for a century before a similar movement existed in Britain …. For better and for worse, German thinkers dominated modern theology right up to the point that liberal theology crashed and burned, after which the field was still dominated by the intellectual legacies of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the Ritschlian School.”
Today, of course, is a different story. England is now where Germany was a century ago, and even American Evangelicalism today is being tempted to follow England. Here is the paper that was presented with the lecture - some light reading .... http://www.deanbibleministries.org/dbmfiles/notes/2017-ChaferConf-03-Musser-Paper.pdf
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