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Mid-Term Flashcards

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What is the God of the Gaps?

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A concept where we use God to fill in the gaps in human knowledge

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Descartes concern with God of the Gaps?

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God within the bounds of human reason

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Kant concern with GOG

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Moralism, placed God beyond history

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Hegel concern with GOG

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Dialectical idealism. God comes to self-consciousness through human consciousness in history

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Pragmatism within the church? GOG

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We engage in calculated risk. We often believe in God, not because he is true, but we want him to be true.

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Hegel

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2 things becomes one thing. A continual becoming thing

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Consumerism has affected the church? GOG

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We tend to be consumed by consumerism, content to eat, drink, and seek prosperity here and now

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Why did Nietzsche despise Christianity?

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He despised it’s ethics. He rejected the concept of the crucified God. Christianity esteems the weak and despised. He rejects the notion that we ascend by suffering and dying.

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Nietzsche idea on consumer Christianity

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We suffer as we ascend to power

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Paul idea on consumer Christianity

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We ascend by suffering and dying

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Consumer Christianity

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We ascend by indulging our passions and avoiding suffering

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Jesus is the good shepherd, what are the four others contrasted against.

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The hired hand- sell their time

Volunteer- donate their time

Wolf- come to devour

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Difference between a God of the gaps and standing in the gaps

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God does not want us to fight to make a place for him in culture/science/politics. God wants us to “stand in the gaps” for the weak, the despised, and the marginalized.

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Three historical quests

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Ancient and Medieval, Modern, and post-modern

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Ancient and Medieval historical quest

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The ontological quest

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Modern historical quest

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The epistemological quest

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Post-modern quest

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The linguistic quest

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How is Descartes relevant to GOG

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Descartes sought to prove God through pure reasons. He sought to argue for the existence of God in a society that began to care little about God

19
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How did Kant define enlightenment

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Humanity’s release from self-incurred tutelage

20
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Three ages

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Pre Modern: Priest, Revelation as authoritative

Modern: Physicist/professor, reason as authoritative

Post modern: Poet/painter, Artistic as authoritative

21
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Three ages of old polarities

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One v. many

Constancy v. change

Reason v. experience

22
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Kant “dare to think for yourself”

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Do not let another tell you what to believe. Have courage to think for yourself what is true

23
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Kant set about to…

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Find a place for certainty in knowledge claims

24
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Kant’s copernican revolution

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A shift in perspective to the human observer

25
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Why do we believe

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We believe to understand

26
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Kant’s two story universe

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Fact/Faith and moral freedom and God. Theres no connection between the two, we cannot ascend to the upper level through knowledge

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Kant influence the university? Theology? and Religion in general?

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Universities became focused on the hard sciences, theology became human centered, and he moralized religion

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Which three school of philosophy was Kant critiquing?

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Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism

29
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What is categorical imperative?

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Live that universal that can be applied to all.

30
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Hegel’s view of God

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Hegel views God as the historical process

31
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How did Hegel’s differ from Aristotle?

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Aristotle saw God as the unmoved mover. Hegel saw God as the moved mover. Hegel affirmed change over constancy.

32
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For Hegel, God comes to self…

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Consciousness through human consciousness in history

33
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Was Hegel’s view of God transcendent or immanent?

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Totally immanentized. God requires history for perfection.

34
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Is Hegel’s God a GOG or of the gallows?

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God of the gaps. Hegel sought to make room for God in historical process

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