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

Part I. Accomodation to Culture in Gnosticism and Abelard

-harmonize with exceptions (not just Christian sanction for all) -Culture-Protestantism is better term then "liberal" or "liberalism"

-Judaizers, Nazerenes and Ebionites that Paul had conflict with
(groups which were more Jewish than christin...or loyalty to Jesus Christ without abandoning any of current Jewish tradition)

Gnostics (ie. Basilides, Valentinus, the author of Pistis Sophia)
-saught to raise Christianity from the level of belief to that of intelligent knowledge, and so to increase its attractiveness and its power. (ie with science and philosophy/Ptolemain astronomy)
-this entailed His naturalization in all civilization (less obvious)
-Jesus was an individual and spiritual matter, which had its place in the life of culture as the very pinnacle of human achievement
-he rejected what seemed worst in culture & took what seemed most Christian
-dealt with soul & had no claim on a person's total life
participation in the life of culture was now a matter of indifference it involved no great problems...a Gnostic had no reason for refusing to pay homage to Caesar or to participate in war
"religion separated from ethics it becomes different from what it is in the church; it is now a metaphysics, a "Gnosis," a mystery cult rather than a faith governing all life."
-Jesus was spiritual savior, not the Lord of life; his Father was source/not governor
-tendency to interpret Christianity as a religion rather than as a church (one of many religious and phiosophical systems)/ church as a religious association rather than as new society

Abelard Jesus became for Abelard the great moral teacher doing in a higher degree what Socrates and Plato had done before him
conflict between Christ and culture is gone
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More Go to: Christ Of Culture | Introduction | Part I: Accomodation to Culture in Gnosticism and Abelard | Part II. Culture-Protestantism" and A. Ritschl | Part III. In Defense of Cultural Faith | Part IV. Theological Objections

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