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Mid-Term Flashcards

1
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Explain this equation: R - F = M

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Reason - Faith = Modernism

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Explain this equation: F - R = E

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Faith - Reason = Existentialism

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Explain this equation: -F - R = P

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No faith - Reason = Postmodernism

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4
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What must philosophy be attached to always?

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Sociology

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5
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Which is the best description to the Christian approach to life and Scripture?

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Premodern consciousness in a Postmodern world

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6
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Rationalism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?

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Reason and the mind

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Empiricism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?

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Senses

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8
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Which best describes postmodernism?

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Pessimistic view of meta-narratives

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9
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What did German Historical Criticism lead to?

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Liberalism

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10
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Who claimed in the 400s BC that “relativism is knowledge”?

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Stoics

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11
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Which two Greek philosophers had the greatest impact on philosophy and theology?

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Plato and Aristotle

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How did Plotinus “baptize” Plato?

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Took the Greek ideas, cleaned them up and put them in Biblical terms

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

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Not much, he was agnostic when it came to the knowledge about “The one”

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

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Human reason and faith

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15
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What was the new “center” of Enlightenment hope?

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Reason

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What “universal” did Descartes begin with?

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The mind

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17
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Without scientific proof as the basis of knowing, what did the Enlightenment say you were left with?

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Zero, just our opinions

18
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Who believed there were no “innate principles” or ideas in us at creation?

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John Loke

19
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Why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is?

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To see why it collapsed into postmodernism

20
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What did modernism lead to?

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Postmodernism

21
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Once Descartes proves his own existence, what did he attempt from there to go on to prove?

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Prove God philosophically

22
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In the Enlightenment many “christian” thinkers saw revelation as what?

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Unnecessary

23
Q

Contrast the Upper floor and the Lower floor describing

what is in each

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Upper; intangible like love. Lower; Physical world

24
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What is a meta-narrative?

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Overarching story that explains all the particulars of life

25
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Discuss how the “meta-narrative” engages the Upper and Lower floors.

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They are interconnected, to live coherently, what you do in one will effect the other.

26
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How was Aquinas the “open door” to liberalism?

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You can think your way there, the mind is not fallen/corrupt

27
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What was the next jump from Aquinas’ notion “we can start with ourselves alone and know God”?

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Everything, All

28
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What is the first principle behind studying history for Apostolic’s?

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God knows the meaning history better than the historians

29
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Which ancient people united religious awe and worship with moral law and conscience?

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Jewish/Hebrew people

30
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What was the end of epicurean thought?

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Hedonism, the worship of pleasure

31
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What was the end of stoicism and how was it proven

unlivable from the example of its two founding philosophers?

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Fatalism, both committed suicide

32
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What is the biggest contrast in ethics for Hebrew and Greek thought?

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Theory, the Hebrews taught this in practice

33
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Scripture contrasts the Greek idea that “our head judges

our heart” by pointing out what instead?

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Our heart judges our head

34
Q

Which was the most dangerous of the three options for

approaching medieval catholic synthesis?

A

“Supposed” critical synthesis

35
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What has the desire for “academic respectability” done for the Church throughout all history according to John Frame?

A

Evangelism and the apologetics of the church

36
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Why is “the Enlightenment” an ironic term?

A

It created the darkest time in history

37
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For the Enlightenment what was the tool that would answer all of life’s questions?

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Scientific Method

38
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What “reduction of the heart” did Romanticism reduce humanity to?

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Sentiment, more feelings

39
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What did Romanticism lead to (its philosophical child)?

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Existentialism

40
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Have you kept up on all your reading of Swanson?

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YES

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