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Chapter 4
Part I: Landmarks: Periods, Themes, and Personalities of Christian Theology:

4. The Modern Period, ca.1750 to the Present.

QUESTIONS
 
1.

What are the main features of the Enlightenment? [answer]

2.

What areas of Christian theology were especially affected by the ideas of the Enlightenment? Why was this so? [answer]

3.

Summarize some features of the following movements: liberal Protestantism; neo-orthodoxy; evangelicalism; and liberation theology. [answer]

4.

With which theological movements would you associate the following individuals: Karl Barth; Leonardo Boff; James H Cone; Stanley Hauerwas; Rosemary Radford Ruether; and F D E Schleiermacher? [answer]

5.

Assign the following theologians to their corresponding theological school or schools: Anselm of Canterbury; Basil of Caesarea; John Calvin; Erasmus of Rotterdam; Gregory of Nazianzus; Thomas Aquinas; Paul Tillich; and William of Ockham. [answer]