A People's History of Christianity Ancient...
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A People's History of Christianity Ancient Modern
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● Christian Origins: The Free-Thinking Church of Corinth
● Martyrs or Madmen: Religious fervor and martyrdom as people power
● Light in the Darkness: Popular people's movements beyond the monasteries and crusades
● The Unusual Suspects: The Renaissance, Reformation and battle for divine justice
A People's History of Christianity From Ancient to Modern
Four moments in time
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● From the Reformation's birth of Protestantism as a global force
● To the emergence of the Modern Age and the 'progress of man'
● And then the collapse of progress and postmodern Christianity
A People's History of Christianity From Ancient to Modern
Final Session: Into Modernity and out the other end
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PART ONE:The Rise of the Modern Age
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● Industrialization: Mid-18th century to mid-19th century: from hand production methods to machines, chemical manufacturing, iron production, water and steam power and development of machine tools, all fueled by extensive mining of coal
● Urbanization: People's lives changed radically with rising average income and population through emergence of the modern city with its factories, rural immigration and child labor
A People's History of Christianity The Rise of the Modern Age
The Industrialization of Human Relating
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Much of this explosive growth was made possible by the parallel growth of the modern imperial age...the world in 1914
A People's History of Christianity The Rise of the Modern Age
The Globalization of Human Relating
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● The rise of empire and industrial progress gave modern humanity a confdence in the reach of our own achievements
● Historian Robert Mackenzie, writing in 1880: ‘Human history is a record of progress...The nineteenth-century has witnessed progress rapid beyond all precedent, for it has witnessed the overthrow of the barriers which prevented progress'
● Scientifc advancements such as Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) led to view of being human as a species able to advance on its own merits and not as an outcome of providence
A People's History of Christianity The Rise of the Modern Age
The Supreme Confdence of the Modern Man
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● Friedrich Schleiermacher: Father of modern theology: our theological starting point is a feeling of 'absolute dependence' on God rather than a formulaic set of dogmas or beliefs.
● Rudolph Bultmann: concept of demythology: only faith in the kerygma, or proclamation, of the New Testament was necessary for Christian faith, not any particular facts regarding the historical Jesus
A People's History of Christianity The Rise of the Modern Age
The Birth of Liberal Protestantism & Biblical Criticism
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A People's History of Christianity The Rise of the Modern Age
Critical Biblical Reading
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● Karl Marx: The alienation of man from his labor and from one another in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: the product of work as an object alien and even hostile to us.
● Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novaruni (1891), directed to ‘The Condition of the Working Classes’, hailed as one of the most important modern pronouncements on social justice.
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Cautionary Notes on the Progress of Man
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A People's History of ChristianityThe Rise of the Modern Age
The Emergence of Modernity as an Age of the Grand Narratives of Progress
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REFLECTION:Do you look back on the
last 200 years as two centuries of progress?
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A People's History of ChristianityAncient Modern
PART TWO: The 20th Century and Postmodernity's Angst
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● World War I: Shell Shock was a term used during the First World War to describe the psychological trauma suffered by men serving on the war's key battlefronts
● In many ways the unprecedented 9 million combatant fatalities left human civilization shell shocked at the destruction it could visit upon itself
A People's History of ChristianityPostdmodernity's Angst
The Great War and the Bubble Bursts
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● World War II: Over 70 million fatalities, the deadliest war in human history
● Systematic attempt to annihilate Europe’s Jews, disabled, homosexuals in the Holocaust, or Shoah, meaning 'catastrophe'
● Led Jewish and Christian theologians to declare the 'death of God' – the age-old problem of theodicy
A People's History of ChristianityPostdmodernity's Angst
The Holocaust and the Death of God
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A People's History of ChristianityPostdmodernity's Angst
Postmodern Doubt
● Jacque Derrida: Deconstruction: proposed the deconstruction of all texts where binary oppositions are used in the construction of meaning and value
● Michel Foucault: Archeology of Knowledge: drawing from Nietzsche and the relationship between knowledge and power, what can be said about certain categories of things
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A People's History of ChristianityPostdmodernity's AngstPostmodern Theology
● John Caputo: The old God-of-power is displaced with the idea of God as an unconditional claim without force. As a claim without force, the God of weak theology does not physically or metaphysically intervene in nature.
● Everyday Theology: Beyond the grand narratives of organized religion, my truth is true to me
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REFLECTION:How do you think Christianity should relate to the world we live in today?
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A People's History of ChristianityAncient Modern
PART THREE: From Angst to Action
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● Liberation Theology emerged as a people's movement in Latin America in the face of the 'structural sin' of government oppression
● Biblical Grand Narrative of Exodus, God's intervention in human history for the poor recalled as base communities gathered in cycle of action-refection
A People's History of ChristianityBack to an Ancient Grand Narrative
God's preferential option for the poor
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● A movement that returns the word of colonial spread of Christianity
● Interpolating indigenous elements into the Christian theological framework
● Example: South Korean Minjung Theology: Minjung, 'the people' made up of people who are ostracized by the larger community
● Other movements: Disability Hermeneutics, Queer Hermeneutics
A People's History of ChristianityBack to an Ancient Grand Narrative
Postcolonial Christianity
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● From Jerry Falwell to Al Sharpton, the voices in contemporary American Christianity have offered a wide diversity of people's narratives
● In an age of institutional decline, the question of what sort of grassroots Christianity will survive the century is an open question
A People's History of ChristianityBack to an Ancient Grand Narrative
The American Context for a People's Christianity
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What will characterize that grassroots in our own part of the world?
A People's History of ChristianityBack to an Ancient Grand Narrative
The People's Christianity on our Doorstep
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A People's History of ChristianityYour Turn!
What are you going to take
from this series?