THEOLOGICAL IDEALISM

IdealistArchive.com's primary goal is to present a balanced view of the forms of theological idealism known throughout the Christian era.   These views are segregated according to their dependence on history and matter as being the substance of the Bible's prophetic intent.  The two main sections are called "Modern Idealism" and "Historical Idealism."    Modern Idealism is distinguished from Historical Idealism in that the old Christian Idealist approaches, in which the historical accounts of the natural life of Jesus are oftentimes considered to represent the fullness of Old Testament prophecies, are seen as deficient in discerning the proper focal point of Bible Prophecy -- the eternal person and work of Jesus Christ.   Having the historical stage as the absolute finality of prophetic intent in any of these areas of God's revelation to man -- including in the symbol of the Cross -- results in a view in which consummation and substance are historical in nature.. and which are almost always yet to be received in the future at "the last day and the end of the world" (as opposed to the judgment, etc. being individually received, al a Hebrews 9:27)   Modern Idealism, however, is past this historical blunder, and recognizes -- with preterist chronologists -- that the historical model of the eschaton has already come in the last days of natural Israel.   This view ultimately differs from all chronologists, however, by seeing the "consummation of the ages" as receivable solely in relationship with Jesus Christ ALONE -- not able to be fixed at any particular point in history, past or future.  Though Historical Idealism is oftentimes rightly chided as being without a hermeneutic -- except for a lawless system of subjective moralizing -- such is not the case with Modern Idealism.  Each form, so far as I've seen, is very committed to a conservative, law-based hermeneutical approach to the Word of God.  In the case of the form of Modern Idealism native to this website, the laws are very few and are very specific, and are being laid out in the Definitions & Classifications Study Archive, as well as in the Hermeneutics Study Archive.  

PHILOSOPHICAL IDEALISM

Purely Philosophical Idealist views will not be categorized under the main subject headings, even though they may share many of the basic ideas.  These oftentimes Deist or non-Christian views  - such as found among advocates of Absolute Idealism - are fundamentally different points of view, in that their main concern is not Christology or theology, but philosophy and epistemology.  These different forms -- which are concerned almost exclusively with the theory of knowledge -- are being classified separately in the Philosophical Idealism Study Archive.  The consideration of these views is intended to be kept distant from the Historical and Modern forms of "Theological Idealism" which, following the person and work of Jesus Christ -  are the focal point of this website.   Scholars have a tendency to consider Theological Idealism a relic of the past, as though the skeptical arguments of philosophers is more advanced than the religious pursuits of Christians; however, this website is committed to the idealistic belief that a reversal is in order... as the natural considerations of the mind are but "the echo of the True Voice" -- the everlasting Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.