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| perpetual critique, post-traditional, post-medieval historical period with a move from feudalism towards capitalism and industrialization; importance of Enlightenment |
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| secularization, disenchantment, privatization |
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| historical critical method of reading the bible |
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| through historical context; based on a premise that ancient authors reflected their own historical situation; unfettered by religious structures; not to debunk faith but learn the history |
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| emprical knowledge as the only one worth having; science should displace phil and theo as the source of social ideology; scientism is society based upon scientific principles |
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| most important to seek God within our heart; 3 ways to recognize him: in us, every person, those who are not here |
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| evangelistic meeting or series of such meetings made in order to gain new converted believers; consecutive days of service at the same location |
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| American Anti-Catholicism |
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| hostility to Catholics and their Church prominent among Protestants in Britain and Germany startin from the period of Protestant Reformation; two different types |
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| Romanticism focuses on our emotions; emotions are powerful agents of expression |
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| branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, history, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty; sensory values study |
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| a form of reductionism applied to the matter of religion; attempt to explain the greater in terms of lesser; understanding big ideas through easy concepts |
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| the feelings, acts, and experiences of an individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they might consider divine |
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| pursuit of communion with divinity; four aspects: transient; ineffable; noetic; passive |
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| evaluating an action by their results rather than their initial intentions or origins |
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| issued by Pius X 09/01/1910; encyclical; everyone associated with religion should swear to it |
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| the official law made by the pope; Greek kyklos circle; in communion with the Apostolic See |
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| Catholic Anti-Americanism |
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| belief that America is inherently incompatible with the Catholic Church |
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| either a loss of faith in a certain religion or the return to previous religion |
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| sacraments produce grace; principle both in mystery and reality; very important for becoming a true believer; being together with one's God |
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| papal encycical; Pius XII; calls church the body of Christ |
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| collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933; justice and charity of Jesus Christ |
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