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

-Faith -Reason = Post-Modernism

Question 4

What must philosophy be attached to always?

Answer 4

Sociology

Question 5

What 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

Rationalism = Mind

Question 7

Empiricism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?

Answer 7

Empiricism = senses

Question 8

What is the best way to describe postmodernism?

Answer 8

Suspicion of Meta Narratives =Post-Modernism

Question 9

What did German Historical Criticism lead to?

Answer 9

Liberalism

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Sophist

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

He took Greek ideas into theology

Question 13

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

Answer 13

He claimed we could only know what he wasn’t making him mostly agnostic

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Reason and faith

Question 15

What was the new “center” of enlightenment hope?

Answer 15

Enlightenment hope centered on man’s 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

John Locke

Question 19

Why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is?

Answer 19

Because it collapses into postmodernism

Question 20

What did modernism lead to?

Answer 20

Modernism = Post-Modernism

Question 21

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

Answer 21

God

Question 22

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

Answer 22

An add-on

Question 23

Contrast the upper floor and the lower floor describing what is in each:

Answer 23

Lower= observable or physical 
Upper= Ideals

Question 24

What is a meta-narrative?

Answer 24

It is the grand story of the particulars of life

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The metanarrative is the universal by which we understand the interaction between the upper floor of ideals in the lower floor of the observable and the particulars then in

Question 26

How was Aquinas the “open door” to liberalism?

Answer 26

He believes that the mind/reason wasn’t fallen

Question 27

What was the next step for Aquinas after start with ourselves alone and know God?

Answer 27

Start wth ourselves and know all.

Question 28

What three areas did enlightenment rationalism affect or create?

Answer 28

Natural religion or pure rationalism
Autonomous Man
Romanticism