Mid Term

Question 1

Explain the Equation: R - F = M

Answer 1

Reason - Faith = Modernism

Question 2

Explain the Equation: F - R = E

Answer 2

Faith - Reason = Existentialism

Question 3

Explain the Equation: -F -R = P

Answer 3

No Faith and No Reson = Post Modernism

Question 4

What must philosophy be attached to always?

Answer 4

Sociology or living

Question 5

Which is the best description to the Christian approach to life and scripture?

Answer 5

Pre Modern

Question 6

Rationalism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?

Answer 6

Thinking or The Mind

Question 7

Empiricism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?

Answer 7

Senses

Question 8

Which best describes postmodernism?

Answer 8

Suspicion of Meta-narratives

Question 9

What did German Historical Criticism lead to?

Answer 9

Liberalism

Question 10

Who claimed in the 400s BC that “relativism is knowledge”?

Answer 10

Sophists

Question 11

Which two Greek philosophers had the greatest impact on philosophy and theology?

Answer 11

Aristotle and Plato

Question 12

How did Plotinus “baptize” Plato?

Answer 12

Took Greek philosophical notions of Plato and put it into Christian language and injected them into Christianity

Question 13

When Plato spoke of the “One” how much did he claim we could know?

Answer 13

Mostly agnostic about it

Question 14

What two things made up the “universal” that made sense of all the “particulars” according to Aquinas?

Answer 14

Faith and Reason

Question 15

What was the new “center” of Enlightenment hope?

Answer 15

The human mind

Question 16

What “universal” did Descartes begin with?

Answer 16

I think therefore I am

Question 17

Without scientific proof as the basis of knowing, what did the Enlightenment say you were left with?

Answer 17

Senses

Question 18

Who believed there were no “innate principles” or ideas in us at creation?

Answer 18

John Locke

Question 19

Why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is?

Answer 19

To see why modernism collapsed into Post Modernism

Question 20

What did modernism lead to?

Answer 20

Post Modernism

Question 21

Once Descartes proves his own existence, what did he attempt from there to go on to prove?

Answer 21

The existence of God

Question 22

In the Enlightenment, many “Christian” thinkers saw revelation as what?

Answer 22

Inadequate or not necessary

Question 23

Constast the Upper floor and the Lower floor describing what is in each

Answer 23

Upper-

Lower-

Question 24

What is a meta-narrative?

Answer 24

Worldview or Grand story that makes sense of all the particulars of life

Question 25

Discuss how the “meta-narrative” engages the Upper and Lower floors

Answer 25

It is the universal that informs how we understand

Question 26

How was Aquinas the “open door” to liberalism?

Answer 26

He said that the mind is not fallen

Question 27

What was the next jump from Aquinas’ notion “we can start with ourselves alone and know God”?

Answer 27

We can start with ourselves and know everything

Question 28

What three areas did Enlightenment Rationalism affect or create?

Answer 28

1. Natural Religion
2. Antonymous Man
3. Romanticism