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Question 0

What does it mean to say that there are gaps for us between belief and truth?

Answer 0

It is to accept the fact that we’re not God, who, as omniscient and perfect, in fallible in His reasoning.

Question 1

What are the problems with Bills statement that he has no beliefs, only knowledge?

Answer 1

He contradicted himself. The fact that he said he doesnt have beliefs is a belief.

Question 2

What is knowledge? What notions does it combine?

Answer 2

Knowledge= rationally justified true belief. 1) You must believe it to be true (belief).

2) It must be true (True belief)
3) You must have a rational justification, or good reason for believing it to be true (justified true belief.)

Question 3

How much evidence must we have before our belief is rationally justified? Do we need absolute or scientific proof? Why not?

Answer 3

You don’t need absolute proof. A lot of prepositions can not be established in the sense of absolute proof, beyond doubt, but there is no good reason to deny we know them.
You don’t need scientific knowledge either. Not all knowledge is scientific knowledge

Question 4

What does it mean to think contextually?

Answer 4

It means approaching your interactions with people and ideas by striving to understand where you are and with whom you are interacting.

Question 5

What verbs are used to describe Paul’s approach in Acts 17?

Answer 5

Reasoned, explaining, and proving

Question 6

How does Paul NOT begin?

Answer 6

He doesn’t begin by immediately confronting and rebuking idol worship

Question 7

What are Horner’s two suggestions for how to go about preparing to engage different contexts?

Answer 7

1) Work on understanding the ideas and movements that shape the thinking and lives around you.
2) Do it in community

Question 8

What are three questions that Horner suggests?

Answer 8

1) What do you mean?
2) How do you know that?
3) So what?

Question 9

What does it mean to “take the roof off”

Answer 9

To ask “So what?” and expose a position to the elements, to draw out its implications–logically practically, and morally

Question 10

What is the difference between the Law of HUman Nature and the Laws of Nature as applied to a rock or tree?

Answer 10

Law of Nature= “What Nature, in fact, does”

Law of Human Nature= What human beings ought to do and do not

Question 11

The Law of Human Nature must be what? How does Lewis argue for this?

Answer 11

It must be a real thing–a thing that is really there, not made up by ourselves

Question 12

What are the two views concerning the universe?

Answer 12

1) Materialistic View. People think that matter and space just happen to exist and always have existed. NObody knows why and by a long sense of chances, the living Creatures developed into things like us
2) Religious view

Question 13

What is the job of science? How do we get to know if there is “Something Behind” the observation?

Answer 13

To do experiments, to watch how things behave. We get to know only if we make ourselves known

Question 14

What kind of god is the Life Force of Creative Evolution? How is it different from the God of Christianity?

Answer 14

god of LIfe force= no morals and no mind=won’t interfere into peoples’ lives

Question 15

Our theory of truth must be such as to admit what?

Answer 15

as to admit of its opposite, falsehood

Question 16

what is the view of truth that has been most commonly accepted by philosophers according to Russel?

Answer 16

The truth consists in some form of correspondence between belief and fact

Question 17

Do beliefs depend on minds for their existence? What about their truth?

Answer 17

When beliefs were created, the mind cannot make them true or false
What makes a belief true is a fact and this fact does not (except in exceptional cases) in anyway involve the mind of the person who has the belief

Question 18

What dimensions of life were generally neglected during modernity and the Enlightenment project?

Answer 18

The relational and aesthetic dimensions of life were generally neglected, as were the spiritual and moral

Question 19

What does Curtis say about postmodernism when it is defined simply as that which follows modernity? What does he say when it is defined by philosophical currents?

Answer 19

The movement often offers helpful insight into the exaggerations and overly optimistic claims and goals of modernity. When it is defined by philosophical currents, he says it is much more problematic

Question 20

What does Lundin suggest is a fundamental characteristic of postmodernism? give his definition

Answer 20

Lundin suggests that Perspectivism is a fundamental characteristic of post modernism.
His definition= “ the theory that knowledge of a subject is inevitably partial and limited by the individual perspective from which it is viewed.

Question 21

Finish this quote:

Thus, the meaning of a piece of literature is the meaning…each reader creates from his or her reading of the piece.”

Answer 21

…..”each reader creates from his or her reading of the piece.”

Question 22

What has been one of the highest priorities of Enlightenment education? What does this approach to education presuppose? What, in practice, controls the application of a postmodern approach to education?

Answer 22

Teaching students to think critically and carefully, in order to equip them to evaluate competing truth claims. This approach presupposes that human beings carefully using those faculties can at least approach and approximate the reality that exists and to which truth must respond.
The practice of the use of language to further one’s political agenda, apart concerns about truth

Question 23

Curtis lists a few positives that can benefit Evangelicals. List three of these

Answer 23

1) Its emphasis on the way communities, including church manipulate using language/ideas should encourage church to make church a place where individual are welcomed and also to encourage to examine its own history
2) Offers reminder of our limits and that we are creations not Creator
3) ) It should be taken seriously by evangelicals as well. There is ambiguity in many of their passages and interpretation are sometimes less that certain

Question 24

“Special revelation..” Finish quote

Answer 24

..affirms that there are some things that are absolutely and ultimately true and that we can know some of them because God had revealed them to His people

Question 25

Many of the claims of postmodernism must be what, as we seek to know the truth and apply it to life?

Answer 25

Many of its claims must be rejected or significantly modified as we seek to know the truth and apply it to life.

Question 26

What are the two ways to understand post modernisn?

Answer 26

1) chronological (reaction to modernity)
2) philosophical (A reinterpretation of what knowledge is and what counts as knowledge) (Form of cultural relativism about truth, reality, reason, value, “Self”, etc)

Question 27

Postmodernists reject what concerning truth? How might they define truth?

Answer 27

They reject the correspondence theory of truth. They say a belief is true by virtue of its coherence with other beliefs. They do not define truth in relation to reality. but to a community or culture that shares a narrative.

Question 28

What is the relationship between objective reality and human thought

Answer 28

Post modernists reject objective reality and the existence of a world independent of human thought

Question 29

What do postmodernists say concerning universal, trans-cultural standards?

Answer 29

Post modernists reject the idea that there are universal trans-cultural standards for determining whether a belief is true of false, good or bad

Question 30

What role does the author play in determining the meaning of a text for postmodernists?

Answer 30

No role. Post modernists reject the idea that any text can have an objective fixed meaning. They believe the author has no priveledged position from which to interpret her own text.

Question 31

What does a postmodern do when their literary texts are misinterpreted? What does this show?

Answer 31

Nothing. The meaning of a text is determined by a community of readers who share an interpretation

Question 32

What does postmodernism say about someone owning one’s problems

Answer 32

There is no point

Question 33

When truth is dethroned as a guide for life, what takes its place?

Answer 33

Postmodernism and its contribution to the absolutization of satisfying one desire

Question 34

What does a disciple of Jesus embrace?

Answer 34

Embraces truth, objective reality, a real soul with an eternal destiny and a life of genuine moral responsibility and opportunity for growth.

Question 35

What are three kinds of doubt Oakes introduces? Give both the actual name and the nickname

Answer 35

1) Doubts about Justification (Not me doubt)
2) Doubts about Biblical Authority (says who doubt)
3) Doubts concerning the Christian worldview (The whole enchilada doubt)

Question 36

Who are the three doubters listed from the Bible?

Answer 36

Golffff, , Father with Mute son, 11 disciples.

Question 37

Who are the 4 doubters listed from Church History?

Answer 37

John Calvin, Karl Barth, Francis Schaeffer, and C.S Lewis

Question 38

Why is doubt like a escalator going down

Answer 38

It is not stationary. If not battled, it moves on toward unbelief

Question 39

Is Fideism biblical, according to Horner?

Answer 39

No it is not biblical. Bible teaches how to live a rational, intelligent life.

Question 40

What are the 4 parts of elements of faith?

Answer 40

Object, content, Trust, and commitment

Question 41

What is the rationalist project

Answer 41

The attempt to understand faith and/or reason in such a way as to rule out all faith as irrational

Question 42

Do rationalists require only that we reject unwarranted trust and commitment?

Answer 42

No, if they did, it would be no dispute because it is exactly what Bible commends.

Question 43

Proper faith is ____

Answer 43

inescapable part of wisdom

Question 44

What does Lewis mean by “our own steam”

Answer 44

something that gives us shock

Question 45

Do we have any reason to think that God is personal, so far as the argument goes?

Answer 45

Not yet, we haven’t got as far as a personal God, only as far as a power.

Question 46

What is the “terrible” fix we are in? God is the only comfort, but He is also what?

Answer 46

He is also the Supreme terror. There is a being we must need and the being we want most to hide from

Question 47

When is it that Christianity begins “to talk”? does Christianity begin in comfort? If you look for truth you may find what? if you look for comfort what will you find?

Answer 47

When you realize there is a moral Law,and a power behind the Law and that you have broken the law and put yourself wrong with that power

Does not start in comfort but dismay

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end. If you look for comfort, you will not get either comfort or truth but despair.