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Rejected
the view that Christian belief should be
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based upon the
creeds, the letter of Scripture, or
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rationalistic
arguments.
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Fused
together Pietistic views with Kantian idealism:
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Pietism:
Christianity is about individual
religious experience.
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Immanuel
Kant: there can be no knowledge
of a thing in itself
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(noumena),
but only of how it appears in the individual
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consciousness (phenomena).
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There could be
no experience of God, but only experience
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of God in the
human consciousness.
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The feeling
of absolute dependence upon God was the object of
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Christian
religious experience.
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The place of
Christian theology is to describe internal religious
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feelings rather
than espouse external truths or facts.
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