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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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1772–1834, English
Lyrical Ballads (with Wordsworth) Biographia Literaria Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit |
Poet, philosopher, literary critic, and theologian. Responsible for a vital English theology from the ruins of orthodoxy and rationalism.
Theology comes out of aesthetics and imagination. Influenced by Wordsworth and Kant. Reason is "a power, an intuitive apprehension by which the total personality--senses, will, and emotions--acts as a whole." Metaphysical truths not discerned by speculative or discursive reason alone, but by the whole person. Christianity for C. is not a set of doctrines but a way of life. Proof is found in practice. "Try it!" Modern apologetics for C. (like Schl.) is based on human experience. One of the first to try to preserve the truths of orthodoxy and the findings of the historical-critical method. Rejected bibliolatry and the inerrancy of Scripture. The Bible's uniqueness in the face of its errancy will surface. Like Herder, C. said the Bible should be read like any other book. The Bible will find a person in the depth of experience. |
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
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1768–1834, German
(1799) On Religion (1821–1822) The Christian Faith |
Reformed. Father of Protestant Liberalism. Watershed of modern theology. French Revolution (1789–1799). Reinterpreter of Calvin.
Trained by Schlegel. University of Halle; Holy Trinity Church, University of Berlin. Religion as previously conceived is husk of real religion, which is the feeling (intuition, immediate self-consciousness) of dependence on God. Dogmatics is the linguistic formulation of a prior religious feeling. |
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Horace Bushnell
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1802–1876, American
(1866) Vicarious Sacrifice (1874) Forgiveness and Law (1861) Christian Nurture |
Transcendentalists. Trained by Josiah Gibbs and Nathaniel William Taylor. Influenced by Schleiermacher, and mostly Coleridge.
Reinterpreted atonement theology. Since words are analogues, doctrinal categories (sin, God, etc.) only take meaning as "deeply-embedded int he life-experience of individuals, their spiritual struggles and their prepossessions . . ." As such, these concepts and their linguistic expression change with time b/c they are historically and culturally embedded. Creedal language. Nature and the Supernatural as "one system" of God (ala Schl.). Social concept of sin and redemption due to the organic unity of nature and supernature. |
