HISTORY

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

1400-1650’s: optimism around man’s potential; man, not God, became the measure of all things

Question 2

Reformation

Answer 2

1500’s : religious unity of Europe broken and undending schisms resulted

Question 3

Scientific Revolution

Answer 3

1600’s: cosmos as spiritual replaced with universe as machine;

Question 4

Enlightenment

Answer 4

1700’s: a philosophical framework for living and governing absent from religious reference

Question 5

Industrial Revolution

Answer 5

1800’s: agrarian way of life ended taking rural families into cities. Relations among people became defined by money instead of bonds of family and friendship. Romanticism rebelled against this focusing on passion and individualism; marxism and atheism also thrived in this vacuum.

Question 6

Sexual Revolution

Answer 6

20th Century: the destruction of 2 world wars and the great depression damaged faith god’s of reason and progress as well as the Christian God. In place of reason, progress and God came the emphasis of fulfilling one’s own desires.

Question 7

Theosis and semipelagianism

Answer 7

Deification - the transformative process by which we are made like Christ

In semipelagian thought, a distinction is made between the beginning of faith and the increase of faith. It’s about the role of free will in sanctification.

Question 8

7 Main Stages of History

Answer 8

Nominalism: 1300’s
Renais..:1400-1650
Reformation:1500’s
Scientific -1600’s
Enlighten -1700’s
Industrial 1800’s
Sexual - 1960’s

Question 9

Nominalism

Answer 9

1300’s - no universals anymore, human reason is the center of everything. The world is no longer metaphysical (above physical)

Ochmans razor - The simplest explanation is usually the best one.