Mid Term Flashcards
Explain the Equation: R - F = M
Reason - Faith = Modernism
Explain the Equation: F - R = E
Faith - Reason = Existentialism
Explain the Equation: -F -R = P
No Faith and No Reson = Post Modernism
What must philosophy be attached to always?
Sociology or living
Which is the best description to the Christian approach to life and scripture?
Pre Modern
Rationalism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?
Thinking or The Mind
Empiricism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?
Senses
Which best describes postmodernism?
Suspicion of Meta-narratives
What did German Historical Criticism lead to?
Liberalism
Who claimed in the 400s BC that “relativism is knowledge”?
Sophists
Which two Greek philosophers had the greatest impact on philosophy and theology?
Aristotle and Plato
How did Plotinus “baptize” Plato?
Took Greek philosophical notions of Plato and put it into Christian language and injected them into Christianity
When Plato spoke of the “One” how much did he claim we could know?
Mostly agnostic about it
What two things made up the “universal” that made sense of all the “particulars” according to Aquinas?
Faith and Reason
What was the new “center” of Enlightenment hope?
The human mind
What “universal” did Descartes begin with?
I think therefore I am
Without scientific proof as the basis of knowing, what did the Enlightenment say you were left with?
Senses
Who believed there were no “innate principles” or ideas in us at creation?
John Locke
Why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is?
To see why modernism collapsed into Post Modernism
What did modernism lead to?
Post Modernism
Once Descartes proves his own existence, what did he attempt from there to go on to prove?
The existence of God
In the Enlightenment, many “Christian” thinkers saw revelation as what?
Inadequate or not necessary
Constast the Upper floor and the Lower floor describing what is in each
Upper-
Lower-
What is a meta-narrative?
Worldview or Grand story that makes sense of all the particulars of life
Discuss how the “meta-narrative” engages the Upper and Lower floors
It is the universal that informs how we understand
How was Aquinas the “open door” to liberalism?
He said that the mind is not fallen
What was the next jump from Aquinas’ notion “we can start with ourselves alone and know God”?
We can start with ourselves and know everything
What three areas did Enlightenment Rationalism affect or create?
- Natural Religion
- Antonymous Man
- Romanticism
