S.S 2.1 (Stages in the development of modernism - Bartholomew and Goheen)

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

15th and 16th century.

Born again.

Question 2

Enlightenment

Answer 2

Light of world.

18th Century.

Question 3

Reformation

Answer 3

16th Century.

Question 4

Scientific revolution

Answer 4

6th and 17th Century.

Question 5

Development of method

Answer 5

Newton’s Scientific method = Descartes’ Rational Method and Bacon’s Empirical Method.

Question 6

Conversion of Europe

Answer 6

Success in Newtonian paradigm of physics, “Science Unites”.

Religious War, “Gospel Divides”.

Question 7

Paradigm Shift in European Society

Answer 7

From church to reason.

Question 8

The Enlightenment, faith in (4)

Answer 8

Progress.
Reason.
Technology.
A rationally ordered social world.

Question 9

Late modernity

Answer 9

20th and 21st Century.

Question 10

6 Components of a worldview

Answer 10

Existential belief.
Norms.
View of humanity.
Community.
Nature.
Time and history.

Question 11

Existential Belief - Western worldview rejects the concept of ‘god’, but

Answer 11

There are still religious characteristics.

Post-Christian.

Question 12

Existential Belief - The idea of salvation

Answer 12

The promise of a better future.

Question 13

Existential Belief - Priest

Answer 13

Experts of development that shows the way forward.

Question 14

Existential Belief - Norms/laws

Answer 14

Precise prescriptions are given.

Question 15

Existential Belief - The truth

Answer 15

Prescription are the truth.

Question 16

Existential Belief - Sin

Answer 16

To reach the goal, all “sinful” obstructions such as religious and tradition must be overcome.

Question 17

Contemporary Western Materialism

Answer 17

Economic aspect is absolutised.
Money is the god of the Western worldview.
Neo-capitalist form, which destroys individual freedom.

Question 18

Norms are not directly from ‘god’, but found in concepts linked with (6)

Answer 18

Competition.
Progress.
Growth.
Achievement.
Production.
Consumption.

Question 19

Competition as a norm

Answer 19

There can be good and bad forms of competition.
Westerns thought it is only good.
Endless competition is destructive.

Question 20

Humanity is no longer multi-dimensional, but rather an

Answer 20

Economic being.
Individualist existence.
Rational-scientific being.
Consume (That must immediately be satisfied.

Question 21

Western individualistic perspective leads to

Answer 21

An individualised perspective of communal life.

Question 22

Individualism aims at

Answer 22

Individual freedom.

Equality.

Question 23

Consequences include that social relationships are seen as

Answer 23

Artificial.

Human autonomy becomes absolute.

Question 24

In individualism there is an atomistic relationship between

Answer 24

Individual.

Social group.

Question 25

View of Nature

Answer 25

Is an object separate from the individual or an opponent.

Question 26

Perspective to where nature must be

Answer 26

Defeated.

Exploited to benefit humanity.

Question 27

Western concept of time

Answer 27

Time is money.
Outside the individual.
It is abstract.

Question 28

The implications of this view of time includes

Answer 28

Reduces a person to a slave of time.
Rat-race leads to stressed relationships and alienation between people.
Positive = Leads to good planning and scheduling.

Question 29

Linear understanding of time

Answer 29

History is important, but the focus is always on the future.

Contemporary Western thought is optimistic about the future, idea of progress.