General

Question 1

The Two Primary Worldview Questions

Answer 1

What is the origin, nature, and destiny of the cosmos?

What is the origin, nature, role, and destiny of man?

Question 2

The four simple, subsidiary “philosophical” questions:

• The Ontological Questions
• The Epistemological question
• The Axiological Question
• The Teleological Question

Answer 2

• Who am I? How do we exist?
• How do we know?
• What, if anything, is the ultimate value?
• Where are we going?

Question 3

What must a good worldview have?

Answer 3

Enduring answers to the larger questions which are applicable to the whole of life.

Question 4

The Three presuppositions of the Biblical Christian Worldview

Answer 4

• The Kingdom of God is Spiritual.
• Man is Prophet, Priest, and King under God
• There is no Institutional Interposition between God and Man

Question 5

Twin Constants of a Biblical Christian Worldview

Answer 5

• God is Sovereign

- Man is depraved

Question 6

Biblical Christian answer the ontological question

Answer 6

Biblical supernatural ontology - That the God of the Bible created everything that exists including man

Question 7

Biblical Christian answer to the epistemological question

Answer 7

Biblical revelation epistemology - That man knows on the basis of God’s disclosure of the truth of Himself and all that exists to man in verbal, propositional form.

Question 8

Biblical Christian answer to the axiological question

Answer 8

Biblical theistic axiology - That the Biblical God is the ultimate value, but that man created in the image of God is of infinite, eternal value

Question 9

Biblical answer to the teleological question

Answer 9

Kingdom of God teleology - That God and His rule are in ultimate control and are determinative of direction in time

Question 10

Biblical definition of government

Answer 10

Government is a gift of God for the orderly procedure of man in a fallen world.

Question 11

Biblical view on Education

Answer 11

The Biblical Christian begins with an assumption of a mastery of reading, writing, and math.
Three additional objectives:
-Know God as applicable to all of life
-Know all other worldviews fully and fairly
-Reinterpret everything on the basis of Biblical presuppositions and a Biblical Worldview

Question 12

Biblical view of Law

Answer 12

God IS Law.
Law is therefore objective
All law comes from God

Question 13

Biblical view on Economics

Answer 13

Belief in freedom of enterprise and private property.
A Market tempered with justice.
Work as a form of worship

Question 14

Presuppositions of the rationalist worldview

Answer 14

• The inherent goodness of man
• The perfectibility of man
• The inevitability of progress

Question 15

Rationalist answer to the ontological question

Answer 15

Deistic supernatural ontology - That God theoretically started everything but then went wandering off never to have further relationship with His creation including man

Question 16

Rationalist answer to the epistemological question

Answer 16

Rationalistic epistemology - That man knows on the basis of his own intellect, his own cognitive ability; that by taking thought he can come to a knowledge of the truth

Question 17

Rationalist answer to the axiological question

Answer 17

Humanistic axiology - That man and particularly the awesome potential of his intellect is the ultimate value

Question 18

Rationalist answer to the teleological question

Answer 18

Kingdom of Earth teleology - That some yet-to-be-discovered natural force is in ultimate control and determinative of direction in time

Question 19

Rationalist view of law

Answer 19

Law is to be based upon the immutable laws of nature

Question 20

Rationalist view on the civil-social area

Answer 20

Democracy replaces the Holy commonwealth

Question 21

Rationalist view on Government

Answer 21

Government is of, for, and by man

Question 22

Rationalist view of marriage

Answer 22

It is a union instead of communion. (God is taken out of the equation.)

Question 23

Definition of Majoritarianism

Answer 23

The majority is deemed to be sovereign

Question 24

Rationalist view on economics

Answer 24

That man needs to search out and apply the laws of nature in the area of economics. (Divorced from justice)

Question 25

Three major expressions of rationalism in the west

Answer 25

• French Revolution - Advent of Revolutionary west
• Darwinian Hypothesis
• Marxist analysis of history

Question 26

Four Consequences of the Rationalist Worldview in America

Answer 26

• Christian-Rationalist Conglomerate (Shift from Bible to man’s intellect)
• Biblical to Evangelical Christianity (Separation of church from the outside world)
• American Revolution
• American Constitutional Order and System

Question 27

Utilitarianism

Answer 27

• Greatest good for the greatest number of people.
• Plain/Pleasure equation
• Universal Male Suffrage
• Parliamentary (or Congressional) Revolutionizing Reform
• A Powerful Executive
• Popular Mass Education
• Relative Law - No Absolutes

Question 28

Romanticism-Transcendentalism

Answer 28

• Seek absolute moral and rational freedom.
• View nature as alive and the permanent abode of an immanent, all-pervasive cosmic mind
• Sovereign man has unlimited potential
• Twin imperatives: Liberty and Equality

Question 29

Essence of the last three centuries

Answer 29

Happiness, freedom, and equality

Question 30

How was Transcendentalism implemented?

Answer 30

Reformism - Changed from the inside out

Question 31

Three stages of revolution (Romanticism-Transcendentalism)

Answer 31

• Educational or voluntary stage (Educate man to his true nature - his true “godness”)
• The political stage (Legislate liberty and equality)
• The military stage (American Civil War)