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 IV. Theological Objections

Cultural Christianity is not more effective in gaining disciples for Christ than Christian radicalism
-can't remove the offence of Christ and his cross even by accommodations
-if not go far enough to meet the demands of men whose loyalty is primarily to the values of civilization, they go too far in the judgment of their fellow believers of other schools

-show a tendency to distort the figure of the New Testament Jesus. Take some fragment of the NT elaborate upon it, (something that agrees with the interests or needs of the time) and reconstruct their own mythical figure of the Lord (idol)

As radicals can�t rid themselves of some dependence on reason, so Cultural Christians cannot proceed in their reasoning without reliance on the purely given historical fact,
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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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