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Contemporary Theologies - Outline

UNDERSTANDING THIS AGE Modern Period (19th & Early 20th Centuries) Post-Modern Period (Late 20th Century) Post-Postmodern Period (21st Century) MODERN PERIOD (19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURIES) Rationalism Scientific Temper Utopianism Secularism Skepticism Liberalism POST-MODERN PERIOD (LATE 20TH CENTURY) Mood Against Truth (No Absolutes) Rejection of Reason Emphasis on Style over Substance Privatization of Morals (Morals are personal) Pluralism Image or Virtual Culture Rejection of Metanarratives POST-POSTMODERN AGE (21ST C) Intense Globalization and Trans-nationalism Intense Fundamentalism Return to Modernism Between Modernism and Post-modernism Neo-romanticism (Attempting to turn finite into infinite) Pseudo-modernism (Internet Culture of Clicks, Likes, and Downloads) LIBERALISM Friedrich Schliermacher, Harold De Wolf Rationalism and Scientific Temper Genesis 1-11 as Mythological. Not Literal. No Original Sin. Hyper Contextualization of Theology Emphasis on Natural Theology (Natu...