Serious Times

Question 1

who is the subject of art in the medieval period?

Answer 1

crucifixion of christ

Question 2

who is the object of art in the medieval period?

Answer 2

humans

Question 3

the renaissance was a rebirth, moving from fascination with…

Answer 3

the world to come
to
the world at hand

Question 4

explain “such a return to athens, independent of jerusalem, increasingly elevated plato’s contention that ‘man is the measure of all things’.”

Answer 4

when humanism wasn’t connected with Christianity it became secular

Question 5

2 propositions of the enlightenment

Answer 5

1. present age is more enlightened than the past

2. we understand nature and humanity best through the use of our natural faculites

Question 6

what scientific discover lead the way in the transition from faith seeking understanding to faith seeking justification?

Answer 6

copernicus verified galileo’s assertion that the earth wasn’t the center of the universe

Question 7

explain the word “secular” // where it derives from // what it means today

Answer 7

from the latin word “saeculum” // means “this present age” // today it means divorced from religious or spiritual sensibility

Question 8

how many people believed in god in 2003

Answer 8

79%

Question 9

privatization

Answer 9

a chasm is created between the public and private spheres of life, and spiritual things are increasingly placed in the private area

Question 10

pluralization

Answer 10

occurs when individuals are confronted with a staggering number of ideologies and faith options competing for their attention

Question 11

how is christianity discredited today

Answer 11

on the ground that it argues for an unchanging and universal truth

Question 12

moral relativism

Answer 12

what’s true for you is true for you and what’s true for me is true for me

Question 13

autonomous individualism

Answer 13

each person is independent in term of destiny & accountability

Question 14

narcissistic hedonism

Answer 14

places personal pleasure & fulfillment at the forefront of concerns

Question 15

reductive naturalism

Answer 15

only those things that can be empirically verified in nature can be know

Question 16

explain nietzsche’s quote “god is dead, we have killed him”

Answer 16

humans are responsible for the influence that god has over our daily lives

Question 17

postmodern

Answer 17

time after the modern era

Question 18

trinity characteristics of the enlightenment

Answer 18

reason
nature
progress

Question 19

explain duck/rabbit picture

Answer 19

there can be many interpretations of the same fact

Question 20

explain the umpires’ discussion of balls & strikes

Answer 20

i call them the way they are // objective
i call them the way i see them // subjective
they ain’t nothing til i call them // no stable reality

Question 21

how is media today like a matrix

Answer 21

media has become the dominant perspective. medium is the message.

Question 22

explain jaques derrida’s deconstruction

Answer 22

every statement must be approached with radical suspicion in order to construct one’s reality without imposing any stable meaning on reality

Question 23

explain lyotard’s definition of postmodernism as “incredulity toward metanarratives”

Answer 23

skepticism toward any story that claims to make sense of the totality of reality

Question 24

explain the artwork of wheelman

Answer 24

wheels of human progress don’t always carry the human race to greater happiness // devaluing of humanity

Question 25

four features of the “dark ages”

Answer 25

1. birth of the university
2. writings of Augustine and Aquinas
3. monastic movement
4. engineering marvels of great cathedrals