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A historical-theological breakdown in which persecution makes inherited explanations fail.
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crisis of faith
A historical-theological breakdown in which persecution makes inherited explanations fail.
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Glossary
The Protestant problem of proving to oneself that one truly loves God and is loved by God, under the threat that doubt means damnation.
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Jiang says Jewish persecution creates three crisis questions about conversion, unjust suffering, and the absent promised land.
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Protestant reform creates a crisis of faith because the believer must know directly whether they love God and whether God loves them, while doubt or hesitation threatens damnation.
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Jiang defines epistemology as philosophy's attempt to answer the crisis of faith at the level of knowledge: how ideas come together and how we know what we know.
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The sack of Rome in 410 creates a crisis of faith because critics can argue that Christianity angered the old gods and weakened Roman strength.
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The pyramid stopped working as a civilizational promise when the 4.2 kiloyear event produced a long drought around 2200 BCE, contradicting the pyramid's claimed ability to prevent drought and control the Nile.
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The first reason pyramid building stopped is a crisis of faith: failure to control nature weakened faith in Pharaoh and contributed to the rise of the priesthood and other gods.
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"Okay? And the three big questions is the first law in the Jewish religion is do not worship false idols. That's the first law..."
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"So why is this happening? This creates a crisis of faith. Okay? And so whenever there's a crisis of faith Jews believe it is..."
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"...access to God and this creates the idea of crisis in faith the idea of crisis in faith is how do you truly know..."
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"...practitioners practitioners have tried to resolve the issue of the crisis of faith right wealth accumulation that's a calvinist jihad and but you also..."
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"...problem. This creates something called a crisis of power. A crisis of faith. Why? Because a lot of people believe that Rome was sacked..."
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"...way the world works, okay? So now you have a crisis of faith. And the very authority of the Catholic Church is challenged. And..."
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"And the pyramid represents the ultimate temple. Okay? Does that make sense? So the pyramid is a continuation of this sort of religious devotion..."
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"...And they failed. So this creates, first of all, a crisis of faith. Okay? A crisis of faith. Many now are forced to reject..."
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"...suffer this persecution. So all this history creates a major crisis of faith among Jewish people."
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"...last class with the Protestant Reformation there is now a crisis of faith because Christianity creates the idea of the individual. The individual is..."
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"...are in direct communion with God and you must show absolute faith if you are to achieve salvation. Okay and so this creates a..."
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"...they were obligated to transgress moral boundaries. Okay, remember, the crisis of faith, right? How do you demonstrate your faith in God? How do..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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