Charles Hodge And The Quest For Truth<\\/h3>\\n He brought modern ways of thinking into Christian Orthodoxy and was proud to exclaim that the truth never changed.\\u00a0 One way he engaged with modernism was in his ability to interact with the newest scientific discoveries and use discernment about what to believe and what not to believe.\\u00a0 This led him to reject darwinian evolution as a form of atheism while looking at geological discoveries and accept an old Earth \[4].\\u00a0 He was also a student of philosophy and read some the work of the philosophers such as Reid and Locke, but again was selective.\\u00a0 He engaged the modernists on their own turf and and used the truth of Orthodoxy to discern what could be accepted and what could not.\\u00a0 All the while he believed, and taught, that the Bible was the foundation on which everything stood.<\\/p>\\n

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As we read, the nineteenth century saw the rise of liberal theology [1].\u00a0 The theologians were highly intellectual and people were being won over by their ideas.\u00a0 Charles Hodge came along and was known as \u201cthe pope of Presbyterianism\u201d, and by all accounts was a staunch conservative theologian [2].\u00a0 He responded to modernism in many unique ways.\u00a0 For one, he used the most modern methods of biblical interpretation and used that in defense of conservative Protestantism.\u00a0 He advocated for a faith that was conservative and yet scientific and he argued that believing in the divine inspiration of the scriptures was a rational belief [3].<\/p>\n

Charles Hodge And The Quest For Truth<\/h3>\n He brought modern ways of thinking into Christian Orthodoxy and was proud to exclaim that the truth never changed.\u00a0 One way he engaged with modernism was in his ability to interact with the newest scientific discoveries and use discernment about what to believe and what not to believe.\u00a0 This led him to reject darwinian evolution as a form of atheism while looking at geological discoveries and accept an old Earth [4].\u00a0 He was also a student of philosophy and read some the work of the philosophers such as Reid and Locke, but again was selective.\u00a0 He engaged the modernists on their own turf and and used the truth of Orthodoxy to discern what could be accepted and what could not.\u00a0 All the while he believed, and taught, that the Bible was the foundation on which everything stood.<\/p>\n

Charles Hodge And Fundamentalists<\/h3>\n The response of Charles Hodge to modernism laid the groundwork for twentieth century fundamentalism.\u00a0 However fundamentalism, by definition, is the belief that the Bible must be believed unconditionally [5].\u00a0 Perhaps this is where some of the reactions came from.\u00a0 Hodge wanted theologic to be listed in a systematic fashion [6].\u00a0 This systematic fashion would include the areas of natural theology in which fundamentalists would have issue.\u00a0 In his work of systematic theology he made an argument for the scientific status of theology as a method of knowing truth [7].\u00a0 He also called scripture a \u201creservoir of facts\u201d, and his theological ideas did not leave room for nonessentials.<\/p>\n This led to a belief that those outside of his idea of theological orthodoxy were excluded from the plan of salvation [8]. \u00a0There was also the tendency for his cultural to influence his theology. \u00a0To be fair, this is something that a vast majority of us struggle with, but critics say he was unaware of this. \u00a0Critics also say that Hodge so concerned with his battle against modernity that he was not aware how his own doctrines developed through history. \u00a0He did a lot of great work against modernity, and it was far from perfect. \u00a0However he worked in a tumultuous time of Christianity in America, and he should be commended.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/h3>\n\nOlson, Roger E..\u00a0The Journey of Modern Theology : From Reconstruction to Deconstruction<\/i>. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2013, 213.<\/li>\nIbid, 214.<\/li>\nIbid, 216.<\/li>\nIbid, 219.<\/li>\nMcDONOUGH, RICHARD. \u201cReligious Fundamentalism: A Conceptual Critique.\u201d\u00a0Religious Studies<\/i>\u00a049, no. 4 (2013): 561-579.<\/li>\nOlson, 225.<\/li>\nIbid, 229.<\/li>\n**Ibid, 238.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we read, the nineteenth century saw the rise of liberal theology [1].\u00a0 The theologians were highly intellectual and people were being won over by their ideas.\u00a0 Charles Hodge came along and was known as \u201cthe pope of Presbyterianism\u201d, and by all accounts was a staunch conservative theologian [2].\u00a0 He responded to modernism in many 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