Midterm

Question 1

R-F=M

Answer 1

reason
faith
modernism

Question 2

F-R=E

Answer 2

faith
reason
existentialism

Question 3

-F-R=P

Answer 3

post Modernism

Question 4

what must philosophy be attached to always

Answer 4

sociology

Question 5

Which is the best description. to the Christian approach to life in Scripture?

Answer 5

post modernism

Question 6

Rationalism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?

Answer 6

human mind/reason

Question 7

Empiricism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?

Answer 7

sences

Question 8

which best describes postmodernism

Answer 8

suspicion of medanaratives

Question 9

what did German Historical critism 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

plato and Aristotle

Question 12

How did Plotinus baptize Plato

Answer 12

mixed Greek ideas and put in Christian language

Question 13

when Plotinus spoke of the One how much did he claim we could know?

Answer 13

agnostic, platonic thought

Question 14

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

Answer 14

philosophy and theology

Question 15

what was the new “center” of Enlightenment hope?

Answer 15

reason

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

opinions and beliefs

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Jon Locke

Question 19

why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is
(Short answer)

Answer 19

it collapsed into post-modernism

Question 20

what did modernism lead to?

Answer 20

post modernism

Question 21

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

Answer 21

he went on to prove God

Question 22

in the enlightnemt many “Christians” thinkers saw revelation as what?

Answer 22

as an add on

Question 23

contrast the upper and lower floor

Answer 23

the upper floor is all ideas such as truth,justice, ethics ECT
the lower floor is the observable world,what we can know see and do.

Question 24

what is a meta narrative?

Answer 24

grand story that makes up all the particulars of life

Question 25

discuss how meta narratives engages the upper and lower floors

Answer 25

for Christian the Bible is our meta narrative which then effects our upper floor,moral ethics, and our lower floor.

Question 26

how was Aquinas the “open door” to liberalism?

Answer 26

his said that his mind is not fallen

Question 27

what was the next jump from Aquinas notion “we start with ourselves and know God?

Answer 27

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Question 28

what three areas did Enlightenment Rationalism affect or create?

Answer 28

Natural Religion
Autoonmous Man
Romanticism