Ch24-Terms

Question 1

What is liberalism?

Answer 1

The desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially those of the Scriptures.

Question 2

What is a liberal?

Answer 2

Someone who desires freedom from something or freedom to do something.

Question 3

What is conservatism?

Answer 3

The principle of practice of conserving (preserving) established traditions or institutions and opposing changes in them.

Question 4

What is Pseudoscience?

Answer 4

Several false philosophies mistakenly based on scientific fact.

Question 5

What is positivism?

Answer 5

Founded by August Comte.
False philosophy which states that nothing can be known except observable scientific “Facts”; an idea similar to the older philosophy of empiricism.

Question 6

What is sociology?

Answer 6

A term coined by Comte for his new “science” of human society.

Question 7

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 7

developed by Sigmund Freud

Teaches that subconscious physical drives or irrational fears determine a man’s actions

Question 8

What is behavioral psychology?

Answer 8

developed separately by Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner

Denies man’s sinful nature by reducing man to the status of an animal or a machine.

Question 9

What is pragmatism?

Answer 9

Popularized by William James.
Philosophy that an idea or action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or scriptural considerations.

Question 10

What is existentialism?

Answer 10

Developed by Soren Kierkengaard.
An “anti-philosophy” which claims that there is no truth or reality.
Forces man to make his own meaning in an absurd world.

Question 11

What is progressive education?

Answer 11

Education that abandons the teaching or moral absolutes and encourages a permissive atmosphere in the classroom; allows children to “follow their animal instincts” and to practice “self-expression”

Question 12

What is traditional education?

Answer 12

Education that emphasizes the transfer of the knowledge and wisdom of previous generations and the training of the individual to use his abilities for the glory of God and for the edification of his fellow man.

Question 13

What is secularism?

Answer 13

The belief that matters of morality should be based on considerations of the well-being of mankind in this present life, to the exclusion of all other considerations.

Question 14

What is humanism?

Answer 14

The dependence upon man’s reasoning and feelings alone, with no respect for God’s authority; ultimately, the worship of man.

Question 15

What document written by a group of humanists in 1933 expressed, point by point, the “faith” of humanism?

Answer 15

The Humanist Manifesto

Question 16

What document was published 40 years after Humanist Manifesto I; called for a one-world order.

Answer 16

Human Manifesto II

Question 17

What is modernism?

Answer 17

Religious liberalism.
Advocates “higher criticism” of Scripture and refuses to take the Bible literally.
Believes the Word of God to be little more than a collection of myths and believes man was the highest project of evolution and is naturally good.

Question 18

What is social gospel?

Answer 18

The message of modernist who said that the church’s mission was one of social reform and political action.

Question 19

What is ecumenism?

Answer 19

The outward union of all churches, denominations, and sects into one organization regardless of doctrinal differences.

Question 20

What are Fundamentalists?

Answer 20

The name for Christians who remained faithful to Gods Word.

Derived from the “The Fundamentals” an influential series of scholarly essays.

Question 21

In what revival begun in Wales by evangelists Seth Joshua and Evan Roberts did approx. 100,000 people come to Christ?

Answer 21

The Welsh Revival

Question 22

What is impressionism?

Answer 22

Art that was influenced by empiricism and positivism.

An attempt to capture momentary, fleeting “impressions” received by the physical senses.

Question 23

What is cubism?

Answer 23

Art that emphasized random geometric forms and perspective, hoping to create a new “reality” in the viewer’s mind.

Question 24

What is abstract art?

Answer 24

“Art for art’s sake”

Sought to express subjective thoughts and feelings in a chaotic arrangement of shapes and colors.

Question 25

What pact was the most ambitious attempt at achieving permanent international peace during the 1920s.

Answer 25

Paris Peace Pact

It renounced war as a means of settling international disputes.

Question 26

What is inflation?

Answer 26

An excess of money in circulation which causes the value of money to go down and prices to go up.

Question 27

What central banking system controls the United States money supply under the auspices of the federal government?

Answer 27

The Federal Reserve System

Question 28

What are stocks?

Answer 28

Investments or shares in some industrial or commercial company.

Question 29

What is speculation?

Answer 29

Risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit.

Question 30

What was an economic disaster that his America in 1929 and plunged the world into an economic depression which lasted until 1939?

Answer 30

The Great Depression.