Midterm Flashcards
R - F = M
Reason - Faith = Modernism
F - R = E
Faith - Reason = Existentialism
-F - R = P
-Faith -Reason = Post-Modernism
What must philosophy be attached to always?
Sociology
What is the best description to the Christian approach to life and Scripture?
Pre-modern
Rationalism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?
Rationalism = Mind
Empiricism focuses on what at the epistemological starting point?
Empiricism = senses
What is the best way to describe postmodernism?
Suspicion of Meta Narratives =Post-Modernism
What did German Historical Criticism lead to?
Liberalism
Who claimed in the 400’s BC that “relativism is knowledge”?
Sophist
Which two Greek philosophers had the greatest impact on philosophy and theology?
Plato and Aristotle
How did Plotinus “baptize” Plato?
He took Greek ideas into theology
When Plotinus spoke of the “One” how much did he claim we could know?
He claimed we could only know what he wasn’t making him mostly agnostic
What two things made up the “universal” that made sense of all the “particulars” according to Aquinas?
Reason and faith
What was the new “center” of enlightenment hope?
Enlightenment hope centered on man’s reason
What “universal” did Descartes begin with?
I think therefore I am
Without scientific proof as the basis of knowing, what did the enlightenment say you were left with?
Opinions and beliefs
Who believed there were no “innate principles” or ideas in us at creation?
John Locke
Why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is?
Because it collapses into postmodernism
What did modernism lead to?
Modernism = Post-Modernism
Once Descartes proves his own existence, what did he attempt from there to go on to prove?
God
In the enlightenment many “ Christian” thinkers saw revelation as what?
An add-on
Contrast the upper floor and the lower floor describing what is in each:
Lower= observable or physical Upper= Ideals
What is a meta-narrative?
It is the grand story of the particulars of life
