Life Calling 7 Flashcards
An area or range of personal distinctions characterized by specific qualities
Domain
The part of the consciousness that involves feeling and the capacity to detect and respond to sensory stimuli
Emotion
The capacity in our lives that enables us to correctly experience and use feelings and sensibility
Emotional strengths
The totality of surrounding things, conditions, or influences
Environmental
Non-rational, internal sensation not connected with sight, hearing taste, smell, or what is classically correlated to touch
Feelings
Responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli
Sensibility
Qualities or features that bring power, force, vigor, or sustenance
Strengths
What does Psalm 37:4 teach us about our emotions ?
The emotions (desires) are a natural part of us and that God wants them to be fulfilled
What does Psalm 12:1-3 teach us about the relationship between emotions and the mind ?
That the pattern of this world is designed to fulfill our I-centered desires. It teaches us that we are to renew (change) our mind and focus upon what God’s plan (will) for our life is - His good, pleasing, perfect will
What are the two core desires that an individual seeks ?
To be appreciated
To have a sense of significance
The ability to read, write, understand, and express yourself is being _________
Literate
In American culture, Biblical literacy was high from its founding in the late 1400s until when ?
1950s
What became the primary literacy in American culture from the 1950s until our present day ?
Secular Humanism
What was the primary reason for this shift ?
The implementations of secular humanism in government schools (as proposed by the Humanist Manifesto of 1933 and spearheaded by John Dewey, the American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform
Is secular humanism a new philosophy, created in just this century?
No
What is the secular humanistic philosophy described in the Bible as fulfillment of one’s emotional desires and feelings as the focus of life?
Epicurean
What is the secular humanistic philosophy described in the Bible as fulfillment of one’s logical mind with structure and order as the focus of life?
Stoic
What author stated that his grandparents Biblical literacy, (even though they were modest and simple in economic ways), enable them to discuss matters of deep meaning at a level higher his cousins (who all held Master’s Degrees and PHd’s) who lived with the world of humanistic literacy.
Allan Bloom in Closing of the American Mind
What addictions are found in emotionally unhealthy people, that suffer from:
a. Anger –
b. Anxiety (Worry/Fear) -
c. Depression –
Opiates, Pain Medication, Marijuana
Alcohol
Narcotics (Cocaine)
What University of Pennsylvania psychologist observed that the change in literacy from the Bible to humanism has led to depression as the cost of modernism?
Martin Seligman
Explain how the scriptural concept of “hope” is illustrated in the studies given on the success optimistic individuals experience in life.
Through our study of scripture we have learned how to “consider it pure joy when we face trials” because we know that it only when we persevere through our trials that we can build our character and mature. This process gives us hope whenever we face future trials
Individuals with intrapersonal emotional skills will be able to display which two emotional strengths?
Self-awareness
Self-management