Describe the aims of protestant liberalism

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1. Define what the Age or Reason (or Enlightenment) wanted to replace faith with, and how this changed the way we view humanity?

2. What were the beliefs of John Locke and how did they affect Christianity/religion (how did it create confusion)?

3. Describe the major beliefs of Deism: (Focus on Voltaire, Diderot, and why did it eventually collapse, how did it negatively affect Christianity?

4. Describe the aims of Protestant Liberalism. What were its two towers? What did they want Christian theology to come to terms with? What two descriptions of God did they struggle with? How did this lead them to embrace evolution?

5. Describe Higher Criticism, How did they view the Bible? How did they change traditional understandings of the Bible? How did they change the description of Jesus? Why did Liberals embrace Higher Criticism of the Bible?

6. Summarize the beliefs and teachings of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Albrecht Ritschl.

7. Summarize the goals of the Social Gospel in America, and how it came out of the Industrial Revolution. Did this Social Gospel movement help or hurt Christianity?

8. In Conclusion, looking at the major theological developments of Liberal Theology, describe where you still see this thinking in our modern churches today.

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