Rels 205 Lecture 4.2 Sacral Sentiments

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Rels 205 Lecture 4.2 Sacral Sentiments
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 Friedrich Schleiermacher(1768-1834)
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Schlieremachers Church
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Key Works
Speeches on Religion to its Cultural
Despisers(1799) The Christian Faith (1821)
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Ideas

• Nature of Religion
• 2) 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
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What is Religion?
The contemplation of the pious is the immediate
consciousness of the universal existence of all
finite things, in and through the Infinite
religion is essentially contemplative
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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 ...
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A Sacral Sentiment
Sentiments, feelings, or emotions, that evoke
and/or express a sense of the sacred.
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Romanticism and Sacral Sentiments
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840)
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Absolute Dependence
But the self-consciousness which accompanies all
our activities is itself precisely a
consciousness of absolute dependence
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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
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Set apart - Sacred actions
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Set apart - pollution
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Rudolf Otto (1869-1937)
Professor at the University of Marburg
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The Idea of the Holy (1923)
1923
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The Holy
Arnold Friberg (b. 1913)
Exodus 3. Cf. Ezekiel 1-2
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Natural Revelation
Romans 1.19
For all that may be known of God lies plain
before their eyes
Romans 1. 21
knowing God they did not worship Him as God
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Anselm (1033-1109)
Archbishop of Canterbury
 
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Plato (427-347 B.C.)
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Idealism
Bear
Bear
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Romanesque
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Ontological Argument
God is that Being than which nothing greater can
be conceived._at_ Since existence is greater than
non-existence, the greatest conceivable being
must of necessity exist. Therefore God exists
necessarily.
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Thomas Aquinas (1224/27-1274)
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Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
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Empiricism
Bear
Bear
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Gothic
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The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas
Cosmological 1 - causation Cosmological 2 -
motion Teleological Moral Aesthetic
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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)
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Pearson in Cambridge and Chester
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Sociology of belief
Roman armies met with atheism nowhere ...
they showed no nation was without God.
Peter Berger Rumor of Angels
Rodney Stark
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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
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William Paley(1743-1805)
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Carlisle
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Paleys 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
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crossing a heath
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see a stone
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found a watch
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Examine the watch
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A mechanism
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Man made
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Analogy the universe
An intelligent design a creator
Prof. John Leslie