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To: lockeliberty
Good article.

IIRC, Schlieiermacher is the guy responsible for boiling Christianity as a religion down to two concepts: The universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. This gross misunderstanding is still readily evident today in the social gospel and Christian pop psychology being preached from so many pulpits.

Kant is a perfect example of a person who is highly intelligent and discerning, and yet can neither see nor discern the things of God.

6 posted on 02/16/2004 5:49:20 AM PST by Frumanchu (I for one fear the sanctions of the Mediator far above the sanctions of the moderator)
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To: Frumanchu
IIRC, Schlieiermacher is the guy responsible for boiling Christianity as a religion down to two concepts: The universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. This gross misunderstanding is still readily evident today in the social gospel and Christian pop psychology being preached from so many pulpits.

Yes, that's because he bought into the false dilemma of Kant:

either God is in our world of experience, but then he is not God; or he is God, but then not in our world of experience.

Because he bought into this false dilemma he was left with a Diest God and human morality as two seperate realities.

What I found fascinating about this analysis is when the author spoke of the contemporary situation:

The gravitational center is therefore shifting steadily from “above” to “below” to “up ahead”, from the God-pole to the man-pole to a future pole, from divine transcendence to human immanence to eschatological self-trancendence, from faith to love to hope. In it all, however, there is little looking back to an original and abiding reality behind the resurrection, the cross, and the fall. Creation gets absorbed into the process of salvation history.

The evidence of this dualist mentality is seen in the dispensational, "Left behind", "this is not my world" mentality. The mentality is "saving souls" for the next world and dismissing our obligations to this "kingdom" as a lesser and distinct reality.

ps Love that tagline

15 posted on 02/16/2004 10:41:02 AM PST by lockeliberty (Heilsgeschichte)
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