Christian Worldview Final Exam

Question 1

three Christian approaches to engaging culture

Answer 1

• ongoing cultural mandate,
• cultural mandate fulfilled in Christ,
• ongoing mandate fulfilled in the church

Question 1

ongoing cultural mandate

Answer 1

This idea is that God create people to relation to him and to fulfill the cultural mandate

Question 2

cultural mandate fulfilled in Christ

Answer 2

This the idea that Adam and Eve were given a task to complete but they failed. If they would have succeeded then they would have entered into a state of rest, but that mandate was ultimately fulfilled in Christ

Question 3

ongoing mandate fulfilled in the Church

Answer 3

This is the idea that the church is supposed to with draw from the world and create their own community. They should then invite people into the community

Question 4

three dimensions of culture.

Answer 4

formal ideas, precognitive assumptions, and social institutes

Question 5

formal ideas

Answer 5

the firm held beliefs that are passed down

Question 6

precognitive assumptions

Answer 6

these formal ideas that are acted upon such as imaginaries and or unchallenged beliefs

Question 7

imaginaries

Answer 7

give was to social institutes such as economics, things and ideas, and customs or practices.

Question 8

• Naturalism’s primary proposition: Humans are part of a system.
• Nihilism argument derived from naturalism:
  If naturalism is true, determinism follows.
  Determinism implies no inherent value in human life.
• Conclusion: According to this reasoning, naturalism suggests there’s no inherent value in human life due to determinism.

Answer 8

Sire’s first bridge from naturalism to nihilism – “Necessity and Chance.”

Question 9

-Second bridge from naturalism to nihilism challenges knowledge.

-Claims if naturalism is true, cognitive faculties evolved through an unguided, irrational process.

• Assertion: If cognition resulted from an unguided process, then knowledge acquisition is impossible.
• Conclusion: According to this argument, under naturalism, knowledge becomes unattainable.

Answer 9

Sire’s second bridge from naturalism to nihilism – “The Great Cloud of Unknowing.”