Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th century German philosopher who challenged Christianity and traditional morality. He was interested in enhancing individual and cultural health. Some key ideas of Nietzsche include the "death of God," eternal recurrence, and the will to power. Nietzsche spent his later years mentally ill and died in 1900. He is known for rejecting absolute moral truths and influencing social critique and challenging authority.
Not many consider psychoanalysis (esp. Freudian) friendly to spirituality. Yes, Freud discredited conventional forms of religion. However, he appreciated some genuine advantages of religious commitment, like necessity of suffering, the cost of suppression of our animal remnants. Freud's followers went sometimes really too far in their views. Look what developed some non-orthodox psychoanalysts, like those representing the object relations theory
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Not many consider psychoanalysis (esp. Freudian) friendly to spirituality. Yes, Freud discredited conventional forms of religion. However, he appreciated some genuine advantages of religious commitment, like necessity of suffering, the cost of suppression of our animal remnants. Freud's followers went sometimes really too far in their views. Look what developed some non-orthodox psychoanalysts, like those representing the object relations theory
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TUX is an intention-based graphical user interface that offers the ability to simply tell tux in natural language what you want done. An example would be “Secure all of my web servers”. Tux does all of the natural language parsing, discerns the meaning, and more importantly, your intention, and then queues up all of the tasks that are necessary to carry out your intention. The user is presented with a list of planned actions that are recommended and all systems were secured in about 9 seconds.
STUDY OF RELIGION HANDOUT, PART I 1800-1900Prof. Daniel Alvar.docxpicklesvalery
STUDY OF RELIGION HANDOUT, PART I: 1800-1900
Prof. Daniel Alvarez, Florida International University
Bibliography and History: William Baird, History of New Testament Research: From Deism to Tubingen (Fortress, 1992); John Rogerson, Old Testament Criticism in the 19th Century (S.P.C.K, 1984).
Friedrich Schleiermacher (d. 1834). Major works: On Religion: Speeches to its Despisers among the Educated (1799, 3rd edition, 1821); Celebration of Christmas (1806); The Christian Faith (1821); Life of Jesus (published posthumously in the 1864); Introduction to the New Testament (1829-1832); and an influential work on Hermeneutics [Biblical interpretation], based on handwritten manuscripts (first published in 1838, but published in a critical edition without student notes in 1959). English translations of these works are in print, except for the Introduction to the New Testament.
One of the founders of the University of Berlin in 1810, preacher, classical scholar, whose translation of Plato’s Dialogues is the standard translation in Germany today. S. had close Jewish friends and was instrumental in the rise of Reform Judaism and Jewish emancipation. Otto von Bismarck, who in 1871 unified Germany, was S.’s catechumen as a young man. That in the same year that he became chancellor of a united Germany Jews were recognized as citizens with full civil rights might not be an accident (nor perhaps an accident either that Germany embarked on a path towards militarism and imperialism under Bismarck). Brought to Berlin W. M. L. de Wette (father of modern Old Testament criticism), Augustus Neander (father of modern church history, and famous for his dictum “the heart makes the theologian”), G. W. Friedrich Hegel (d. 1831), as well as E. W. Hengstenberg (d. 1866), the leader of German conservative theology from 1827 until his death. Influenced his young colleague, Friedrich Tholuck (d. 1877), specialist in Oriental languages, who became a conservative under the influence of E. W. Hengstenberg, but who in his early career believed Islam was superior to Christianity, and who wrote an important book on Sufism (Sufism, or the Pantheistic Philosophy of Persia [1821]) and a translation of Islamic mystical writings, Eastern Mysticism (1825). David F. Strauss (d. 1873) was his student at Berlin and was later to criticize severely S.’s Life of Jesus as seriously defective from a historical standpoint.
Scheliermacher is considered the father of Liberal theology. Although influenced by Kantian idealism, he shifts the essence of religion from dogma and revelation (orthodoxy) and ethics (Kant) to feeling. As he says elsewhere, religion is a matter of the heart, not the head, of the affections, not concepts (reminiscent of the theology of the American Puritan theologian, Jonathan Edwards [d. 1758]). He accepted the new historical criticism coming into its own in the 18th century, including the Kantian critique of religion that challenged the viability of the dogmatic and epis ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., published in Christian Century 77 (13 April 1960): 439-441.
Ten years ago I was just entering my senior year in theological seminary. Like most theological students I was engaged in the exciting job of studying various theological theories. Having been raised in a rather strict fundamentalistic tradition, I was occasionally shocked as my intellectual journey carried me through new and sometimes complex doctrinal lands. But despite the shock the pilgrimage was always stimulating, and it gave me a new appreciation for objective appraisal and critical analysis. My early theological training did the same for me as the reading of [David] Hume did for [Immanuel] Kant: it knocked me out of my dogmatic slumber.
At this stage of my development I was a thoroughgoing liberal. Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I could never find in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything that came under its name. I was absolutely convinced of the natural goodness of man and the natural power of human reason.
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The basic change in my thinking came when I began to question some of the theories that had been associated with so-called liberal theology. Of course there is one phase of liberalism that I hope to cherish always: its devotion to the search for truth, its insistence on an open and analytical mind, its refusal to abandon the best light of reason.2 Liberalism’s contribution to the philological-historical criticism of biblical literature has been of immeasurable value and should be defended with religious and scientific passion.
It was mainly the liberal doctrine of man that I began to question. The more I observed the tragedies of history and man’s shameful inclination to choose the low road, the more I came to see the depths and strength of sin. My reading of the works of Reinhold Niebuhr made me aware of the complexity of human motives and the reality of sin on every level of man’s existence.3 Moreover, I came to recognize the complexity of man’s social involvement and the glaring reality of collective evil.4 I came to feel that liberalism had been all too sentimental concerning human nature and that it leaned toward a false idealism.
I also came to see that liberalism’s superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin.5 The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man’s defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.
In spite of the fact that I had to reject some aspects of liberalism, I never came to an all-out acceptance of neo-orthodoxy. While I sa ...
Is Religion Irrelevant? Paul Tillich's Answering TheologyPaul H. Carr
1. Tillich"s Life History
2. " New Being" (Creation) & "Spiritual Presence"
3. His 2 Popular and 3 Sermon Books
4. Systematic Theology: Answering Existential Questions
5. Relating Religion to Culture:
Science, Art, Psychology
Lin Yutang (Lín Yǔtāng, 林语堂), 1895-1976, was a renowned Chinese philosopher, philologist, translator, political spokesperson, inventor, novelist and interpreter of Chinese culture for Western readers.
His struggle to accommodate his cultural heritage of Confucianism, Taoism and Chinese folklore with his Christian properly basic beliefs lasted almost a half-a-century.
Ironically, during this period, while he became the darling of American readers, his writing suffered condemnation in China for his anti-communist stance.
Following the demise of Deng Xiaoping’s influence in the mid-1990s, Lin has once again become popular in China including the production of a 44 episode television series in Hong Kong based on his novel Moment in Peking.
Lin’s books, The Importance of Living and From Pagan to Christian bear witness to his faith dilemma whilst his speeches on ‘The Chinese Cultural Heritage’, ‘Materialism As a Faith’ and ‘Chinese Humanism and the Modern World’ impart a wisdom forgotten by both Eastern and Western cultures in their race to embrace materialist values.
This paper focuses on these three speeches to give insight into the impact of religion on one prominent East Asian person without making assumptions about the effect of religion on East Asia as a whole.
Augustine of Hippo also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin, or Blessed Augustine, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.
3. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
a German philosopher of the late 19th
century who challenged the foundations of
Christianity and traditional morality. He was
interested in the enhancement of individual
and cultural health, and believed in life,
creativity, power, and the realities of the
world we live in.
4. Born on October 15,1844. He was named
after the Prussian King Friedrich Wihelm IV.
Lived in small village Röcken bei Lützen,
Leipzig, Germany.
When Nietzsche was nearly 5 years old,
his father, Karl Ludwig Nietzsche died from a
brain ailment and the death of Nietzsche's 2
yr. old brother, Ludwig Joseph, followed 6
months later. Having been living away from
Röcken's church in the house reserved for
the pastor and his family left their home after
his father‘s death.
5. From the ages of 14 to 19, Nietzsche
attended a first-rate boarding
school, Schulpforta, located Naumburg.
After graduating, Nietzsche entered the
University of Bonn in 1864 as a theology
and philology student.
6. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality,
contemporary culture, philosophy, and
science, displaying a fondness
for metaphor, irony, and aphorism.
Nietzsche's key ideas include the "death of
God," the Übermensch, the eternal
recurrence, the Apollonian and
Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, and
the will to power.
7. There has been much debate about the
cause of Nietzsche's insanity. Some have
argued that many of his symptoms were
characteristic of an onset of syphilis, though
others have rejected this theory.
Many, including several famous
philosophers, claim Nietzsche's philosophy
itself drove him into madness.
He spent the final years of his life in the
care of his sister, uncommunicative with the
rest of the world. He died of pneumonia in
1900.
8. F. Nietzsche‘s Works:
Human
All to Human
Daybreak
The Gay Science
Beyond Good and Evil
The Anti-Christ
and among many others.
9. A CHRONICLE OF
NIETZSCHE’S LIFE
The Anti-Christianity Philosopher
Nihilism , ‗God is Dead‘
10. A Chronicle in F. Nietzsche‘s Life
Nietzsche became especially influential in
French philosophical circles during the
1960's-1980's, when his ―God is dead‖
declaration, his perspectivism, and his
emphasis upon power as the real motivator
and explanation for people's actions
revealed new ways to challenge established
authority and launch effective social critique.
11. A Chronicle in F. Nietzsche‘s Life
Nihilism
is the belief that all values are baseless
and that nothing can be known or communi-
cated.
it comes from the Latin word nihil, or
nothing, w/c means not anything, that which
does not exist. It appears in the verb
―annihilate,‖ meaning to bring to nothing, to
destroy completely.
12. A Chronicle in F. Nietzsche‘s Life
Nihilism
it‘s most often associated with Friedrich
Nietzsche who argued that its corrosive
effects would eventually destroy all moral,
religious, and metaphysical convictions.
It is often associated with extreme
pessimism and a radical skepticism that
condemns existence. A true nihilist would
believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no
purpose other than, an impulse to destroy.
13. A Chronicle in F. Nietzsche‘s Life
F. Nietzsche is most often associated with
nihilism. Nietzsche discovers that all values
are baseless and that reason is impotent.He
wrote:
―Nihilism is . . . not only the belief that
everything deserves to perish; but one
actually puts one‘s shoulder to the plough;
one destroys‖ - Will to Power.
14. A Chronicle in F. Nietzsche‘s Life
Kinds of Nihilism
1. Political Nihilism
is associated with the belief that the
destruction of all existing political, social, and
religious order is a prerequisite for any future
improvement.
2. Ethical/Moral nihilism
it rejects the possibility of absolute moral
or ethical values.
15. A Chronicle in F. Nietzsche‘s Life
Kinds of Nihilism
3. Existential Nihilism
is the notion that life has no intrinsic
meaning or value, and it is, no doubt.
16. Why is it that most philosophers are
Anti-Christianity?
Philosophy is based on logic, critical thinking while
all religions based on theology. Christianity is to
believe in Christ, Holy God Father: all these
things are theology. Philosophy tries to ask why
you have to believe in Christ, why he is the only
son of God? etc questions.
So, philosophy is different in Religions. Religious
don't have any philosophy and have theology.
17. TRANS VALUATION OF
VALUES ON
JESUS & CHRISTIANITY
A Mor Fati and
Eternal Recurrence
18. Transvaluation on Christianity
It was in the 1880s that F. Nietzsche began
to speak of ―values‖ - connoting the moral
beliefs and attitudes of a society.
―Tran valuation of values‖ was intended as
the final revolution against both the classical
and Christian virtues. For him ―the death of
God‖ meant the death of morality and truth.
And there would be no good or evil, no
virtue or vice, no truth or falsehood.
19. Transvaluation on Christianity
The word is used by thousands who have no
idea that ―values‖ (strictly speaking) are not
the same as ―virtues.‖
Virtue is from the medieval Latin virtus w/c
means worth, merit, moral perfection.
As used by the Church of the West a virtue
is a habitual and firm disposition to do the
good.
20. Transvaluation on Christianity
Eternal Recurrence
a doctrine for only the healthiest who
can love life in its entirety — with this
spiritual standpoint, in relation to which all-
too-often downhearted, all-too-commonly-
human attitudes stand as a mere bridge to
be crossed and overcome.