Period III – Modern Christianity
- The Medieval Worldview
- Artistotle’s Harmonious Geocentric System
- Early Steps to the Scientific Revolution
2 – The Enlightenment and Deism
- René Descartes
- Baruch Spinoza
- New Political Theories
- Age of Enlightenment
- Deism: The Search for a Reasonable God
3 – Kant and Modern Philosophy
4 – Pietism and the American Great Awakenings
- Pietism
- John Wesley and the Methodist Movement
- Jonathan Edwards
- John Wesley and the English Revival
- George Whitefield and the American First Great Awakening
- Religion and the Founding of the United States of America
5 – Joseph Smith and the Establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- the First Vision
- The Book of Mormon
- The Restoration of the Priesthood
- The Restoration of God’s Church
- Fundamental Precepts
- Thirteen Articles of Faith
- The Revolutionary Nature of Joseph Smith’s Philodophy
- Persecution
6 – The Holiness Movement, Seventh-day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Wesley on Sanctification
- Phoebe Palmer and the Holiness movement
- Seventh-day Adventists
- Jehovah’s Witnesses
7 – Protestant Liberal Theology
8 – Hegel, Dispensationalism, and Darwin
10 – Fundamentalism
- Roman Catholic Response to Modernity
- Protestant Response and Biblical Inerrancy
- The Protestant Fundamentals
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Resurgence of Protestant Evangelicalism
11 – Pentecostalism, the Charismatic Movement, and Evangelicalism
- Charles Parham
- William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival
- The Charismatic Movement
- Evangelicalism
12 – Kierkegaard, Barth, and Neo-Orthodoxy
13 – Slave Religion and Liberation Theology
14 – Twentieth-Century Philosophy
- The Physicist Verses the Philosopher
- Analytic Philosophy
- Continental Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Existentialism
- Carl Jung
- Critical Theory
- Analytic Philosophy Versus Continental Philosophy
15 – Postmodernism
- Pre-modern Worldviews
- Transition Period
- The Modern Age
- Roots of Postmodernism
- Jean Baudrillard – Simulations
- Jean-François Lyotard – Incredulity Toward Meta-narratives
- Michel Foucault -Power Networks
- Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction
- The Influence of Postmodernism on Culture
- Radical Postmodernism
- Critique of Postmodernism
16 – Resurgence of Spiritualism
- Secularism
- New Atheists
- Christian Spiritualism
- Christian Reaction to Secularism
- Bonhoffer
- Levinas
- Vattimo
- Rowan Williams
- Paul Tillich
- Karl Jasper
- The Appeal of Eastern and Generic Spiritualism
- Bahá’í Faith
- Metaphysic’s Durable Reality
17 – Pluralism in a Postmodern World
- Global Trends and Major Worldviews
- Tension is a Natural State
- Challenges with Relativism
- Social Contract Theory and Majority Rule
- Fundamental Rights
- Engagement with Others
- Religion’s Role in Promoting Harmony
- The Choice: Discord or Deepened Relationships
- Conclusion of Our Expedition
Appendix I – Flowchart of Christian Denominations
Appendix II – Flowchart of Philosophers (pending)
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