Protestant and Catholic Scholasticism

 

·         Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560); Loci theologici; 1530 –Augsburg confession

·         Georg Calixtus (1586-1656)

·         Jacobus Arminus (1560-1609); Dirck Koornhert; Francis Gomarus; Remonstrants

·         1618-19 - Synod of Dort

·         TULIP:

1. Total depravity

2. Unconditional election

3. Limited atonement

4. Irresistable grace

5. Perserverence of the Saints

·         Westminster Assembly (1643)

·         Gallicanism; Ultramontanism; Justin Febronius – 1763; Josephism

·         Jansenism – 1640 – Cornelius Jansenius; Blaise Pascal (1623-62)

·         Quietism

 

Rationalism & the Enlightenment

 

·         Galileo (1564-1642); Idealism & Empiricism

·         Descartes (1596-1650); Cartesianism; cogito, ergo sum

·         occasionalism; monism; preestablished harmony

·         John Locke (1632-1704); Essay concerning Human Understanding; The Reasonableness of Xy (1695)

·         Deism: Lord Herbert of Cherbury; John Toland (1670-1722) Christianity not Mysterious; Matthew Tindal (1655-1733) Christianity as Old as Creation

·         David Hume (1711-1776)

·         Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

 

Pietism & Spiritualism

 

·         Sebastian Franck (1499-c. 1542); Caspar Schwenkfeld (1487-1541)

·         Jakob Boehme (1575-1624); Brilliant Dawn; The Way to Christ; Paracelsus

·         Quakers/Religious Society of Friends; George Fox (1624-91); Inner Light

·         Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)

·         Philip Jakob Spener (1635-1705)

·         Count Zinzendorf (1700-60) & the Moravians

·         Methodism: John Wesley (1703-91); George Whitfield (1714-70)

 

Religion in Early America

 

·         Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503) – 1493; Cortes; Aztecs

·         1565 – St. Augustine; 1608 – Quebec

·         Jamestown VA – 1607

·         Baptists - Roger Williams (1603-83)

·         William Penn (1644-1718)

·         Johnathan Edwards (1703-1758)