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Midterm 2021 Flashcards

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  1. Explain this equation: R - F = M
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Reason - Faith = Modernism

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  1. Explain this equation: F - R = E
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Faith - Reason = Existentialism

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  1. Explain this equation: - F - R = P
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No faith and no reason = Post-modernism

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  1. What must philosophy always be attached to?
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Sociology

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  1. Which is the best description to the Christian approach to life and Scripture?
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Pre-modernism

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  1. Rationalism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?
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Reason

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  1. Empiricism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?
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Census

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  1. Which best describes Postmodernism?
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Pessimistic of meta-narratives

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  1. What did German historical criticism lead to?
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Liberalism

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  1. Who claimed in the 400s BC that “relativism was knowledge”?
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Stoics

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  1. Which Greek philosophers had the greatest impact on philosophy and theology?
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Plato & Aristotle

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  1. How did Plotinus “baptize” Plato?
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He took his Greek ideas and cleaned them up with biblical language.

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  1. When Plato spoke of the “One” how much did he claim we could know?
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Not much - mostly agnostic

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  1. What two things made up the “universal” that made sense of all the “particulars” according to Aquinas?
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Human reason - faith, and biblical knowledge

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  1. What was the new “center” of enlightenment hope?
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Reason

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  1. What “universal “ did Descartes begin with?
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The mind

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  1. Without scientific proof as the basis of knowing, what did the enlightenment say you were left with?
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Opinions

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

19
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  1. Why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is?
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To see how it collapsed into postmodernism

20
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  1. What did modernism lead to?
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Postmodernism

21
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  1. Once Descartes proves his own existence, what does he go on to prove from there?
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God

22
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  1. In the enlightenment, many “Christian” thinkers saw revelation as what?
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Unnecessary

23
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  1. Contrast the upper and lower floors and what is in each.
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Upper is intangibles: Love, justice, truth, beauty

Lower is tangibles: Observable world

24
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  1. What is a meta-narrative?
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An overarching story that makes sense of all the particulars of life

25
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  1. Discuss how the meta-narrative engages the upper and lower floors.
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They are interconnected, how you think and view things in the upper floor, effects how you behave in the the lower floor or the tangible world.

When you speak to one you speak to the other
They have to be

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  1. How was Aquinas the “open door” to liberalism?
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He thought and said the mind was not fallen.

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  1. What was the next jump from Aquinas’ notion “we can start with ourselves alone and know God”?
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We don’t need God, we can know everything in and of ourselves by ourselves.

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  1. What is the first principle behind studying history for Apostolic’s?
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God knows His-story better than the historians

29
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  1. Which ancient people united religious awe and worship with moral law and conscience?
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The Jews

30
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  1. What was the end of epicurean thought?
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Hedonism

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  1. 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, they both committed suicide.

32
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  1. What is the biggest contrast in ethics between Greek and Hebrew thought?
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Greeks could only theorized while Hebrews practiced.

33
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  1. 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
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  1. Which was the most dangerous of the three options for approaching medieval catholic synthesis?
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Supposed Critical Synthesis

35
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  1. What has the desire for “academic respectability” done for the church throughout all of history according to John Frame?
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Messed up evangelism and apologetics of the church

36
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  1. Why is “the enlightenment” an ironic term?
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Created the darkest time ever in history.

37
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  1. 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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  1. What “reduction of the heart” did romanticism reduce humanity to?
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Sentiment

39
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  1. What did romanticism lead to? (It’s philosophical child)
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Existentialism

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