Categories 2 and Categories 3 Flashcards
What did Alvin Plantinga come up with?
4F’s Argument.
Who came up with the 4F’s argument?
Alvin Plantinga.
What is the 4F’s argument?
Our brains are built and shaped by dysteleological evolutionary processes, which can be described as the 4F’s/
What are the 4F’s?
- Fighting.
- Fleeing.
- Feeding.
- Fertilizing.
What is an epistemology?
A theory of knowledge.
What are the 3 common epistemological categories?
- Correspondence (knowledge matches external reality).
- Coherence (knowledge internally consistent and without contradictions).
- Consilience (knowledge interconnects into one encompassing theory).
What are the 3 religious epistemological categories?
- Divine foundation of knowledge.
- Mystery.
- Impact of sin.
What is positivism?
A theory of knowledge that asserts Truth is only determined by logic and science.
What is scientism?
Conflation of science and secular worldview; the popular understanding of science.
What is secular humanism?
The ethical position in which humanity alone determined morals and values, not God as traditionally believed.
What is modernity and when did it occur?
A period in intellectual history marked by the eventual emergence of positivism as the dominant epistemology. 1600-1950.
What is post-modernity and when did it occur?
A period in intellectual history marked by an epistemological crisis and breakdown of modernity. 1950-present.
What does Phil 2: 10-11 say?
At the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
What are hermeneutical gaps?
Conceptual difference between ancient texts and modern readers.
What are the 5 hermeneutical gaps?
- Historical.
- Cultural.
- Linguistic.
- Philosophical.
- Scientific.
What is a historical hermeneutical gap?
Egypt was a world power in 1500 BC/E.
What is a cultural hermeneutical gap?
Jesus washing feet before dinner.