Representatives
Early Examples
James bro of Jesus:
Christianity a kind of party progress within Judaism
(Wikipedia Entry)
Gnostics: in Wikipedia
Basilides: in Wikipedia | in Early Christian Writings
Valentinus: in Wikipedia | in Early Christian Writings
the author of Pistis Sophia: in Wikipedia | in Early Christian Writings
Abelard:
gospel as republication of law of nature
(Wikipedia |
Catholic Encyclopedia | Midieval Sourcebook | Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Public Education Site )
Culture-Protestantism
John Locke in The Reasonableness of Christianity
Leibnitz
Thomas Jefferson
Liberal Christianity (German, English, American etc)
Wikipedia entry |
"not only interprets the ethics of the gospel
from the point of view of culture but also selects those elements in culture thics which appear idealfrom a Christian point of view"
Kant in Religion Within the Limits of Reason
Schleiermacher Glaubenslebre
Schliermacher in Speaches on Religion
Ritschl moral conscience as independent of religion and as prior to revelation bais for ethics ...and these are then used for the interpretation of the demands and values of the gospel
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Christ Of Culture
In general at home in their culture "interpret revelation of values and imperatives through Christ from the standpoint of the common reason of their culture... does not simply sanction the prevailing culture...but emphasizes
the "ideal" in that culture morality
(Christ of Culture: The Accommondationalist Type)
Cultural Christianity is not more effective in gaining disciples for Christ than Christian radicalism
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