Sec 3 Recitation

Question 0

According to the same poll, what percentage of those who call themselves evangelical christians believe there are no absolutes?

Answer 0

66%

Question 1

According to a poll Veith cites, what percentage of Americans believe there is no such thing as absolute truth?

Answer 1

53%

Question 2

According to Thomas Oden what are the dates for the “modern age”?

Answer 2

Fall of Bastille 1789-Fall of Berlin Wall 1989

Question 3

What historical movement rediscovered and reasserted the Greeks?

Answer 3

Renaissance

Question 4

What movement rediscovered and reasserted the Bible?

Answer 4

Reformation

Question 5

What “religion” did Enlightenment thinkers devise?

Answer 5

Deism

Question 6

What nineteenth century movement cultivated subjectivity, personal experience, irrationalism, intense emotion and encouraged introspection?

Answer 6

Enlightenment

Question 7

What worldview dominated the twentieth century?

Answer 7

Modernism

Question 8

What German existentialist contributed significantly to this new way of thinking?

Answer 8

George Heidegger

Question 9

What is the name of the postmodern view that all meaning is socially constructed?
Explain

Answer 9

Deconstruction;

works of literature can have no objective meaning that can apply to everything else