Diller 2 Flashcards
Why is who God is so important to a Christian approach to liberal arts education?
to prepare students better to receive by God’s grace an expanded vision and capacity for right relationship with God, creation, others and ourselves.
What does John 17:3 say is eternal life?
Get eternal life by God and only through knowing God
What is the literal meaning of philo-sophy?
Love and Wisdom
What three questions are at the foundation of every discipline?
- What is Goodness
- What is Beauty
- What is Truth
What does Song of Solomon 8:6-7 say about who God is?
Gods Love is Intense and unyielding
How do ideas from movies like Lucy, and books like Call of the Wild and Fight Club, illuminate popular thinking about what it means to be a maximized human being?
Use all of your potential, work hard and impove yourself
What is ‘liberal’ about the liberal arts?
Priority placed on the personal, holistic, relational, process and participation.
What does Colossians 1:15-20 suggest about the source and connectedness of truth and wisdom?
God gives people wisdom and truth
How are salvation and revelation connected? What does that mean for growing in knowledge through a Christian approach to the liberal arts?
- Narrow views of the Gospel distort it and turn good news into bad news
- Jesus-revelation of God gives us hope for knowing what is good and growing in goodness
How is beauty, power and love connected
All characteristics of God
What role does beauty play in educating human beings?
See Gods Glory
Jesus-revelation of who God is Gives…
us a real hope for growing in the truth
