rels 205 lecture 4.2 sacral sentiments. friedrich schleiermacher (1768-1834)
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Rels 205 Lecture 4.2
Sacral Sentiments
Friedrich Schleiermacher
(1768-1834)
Schlieremacher’s Church
Key Works
Speeches on Religion to its Cultural Despisers(1799)
The Christian Faith (1821)
Ideas
1) Nature of Religion2) Religion not a science
… original and characteristic possession of religion, it resigns, at once, all claims on anything that belongs either to science or morality …
What is Religion?
… religion is essentially contemplative … The contemplation of the pious is the immediate consciousness of the universal existence of all finite things, in and through the Infinite …
An Affection
Yet religion is not knowledge and science, either of the world or of God. Without being knowledge, it recognises knowledge and science. In itself it is an affection, a revelation of the Infinite in the finite, God being seen in it and it in God ...
A Sacral Sentiment
Sentiments, feelings, or emotions, that evoke and/or express a sense of the sacred.
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840)
Romanticism and Sacral Sentiments
Absolute DependenceBut the self-consciousness which accompanies all our activities … is itself precisely a consciousness of absolute dependence …
The Sacred
The sacred is that which is set apart, the Holy, as opposed to the secular or profane world of everyday life.
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917
“Set apart” - Sacred actions
Set apart - pollution
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
Professor at the University of Marburg
The Idea of the Holy (1923)
1923
The Holy
Arnold Friberg (b. 1913)
Exodus 3. Cf. Ezekiel 1-2
Natural Revelation
Romans 1.19
“For all that may be known of Godlies plain before their eyes …”
Romans 1. 21
“… knowing God they did not worshipHim as God …”
Anselm (1033-1109)
Archbishop of Canterbury
Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Idealism
„Bear“
„Bear“
Romanesque
Ontological Argument
God is that Being “than which nothing greater can be conceived.@ Since existence is greater than non-existence, the greatest conceivable being must of necessity exist. Therefore God exists necessarily.
Thomas Aquinas (1224/27-1274)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Empiricism
„Bear“
„Bear“
Gothic
The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas
Cosmological 1 - causationCosmological 2 - motionTeleologicalMoralAesthetic
John Pearson (1613-1686)
Anglican clergyman and theologian. He was successively Master of Jesus College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge University. In 1672 he became the Bishop of Chester.
An Exposition of the Creed (1659)
Pearson in Cambridge and Chester
Sociology of belief
“Roman armies … met with atheism nowhere ... they showed no nation was without God.”
Peter Berger Rumor of Angels
Rodney Stark
Acceptance of miracles
“If then any action be performed which is not within the compass of the power of any natural agent ... it must be ascribed to a cause transcending all natural causes …”
William Paley(1743‑1805)
Carlisle
Paley’s Argument
Refined teleological argument:
In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer … But suppose I found a watch upon the ground …
… crossing a heath …
… see a stone …
… found a watch …
Examine the watch
A mechanism …
Man made …
Analogy – the universe
An intelligent design = a creator
Prof. John Leslie