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Test 6 Flashcards

1
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Types of Communitarianism

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Demonic, Accountable, and Narrative

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Platform’s American Values

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Pressuppose that American Values do pass the test of external and overriding criteria based on shared human experience. (false)

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Nature in the New Testament

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Has no term for ‘nature’ at all.

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Aquinas on the Mind

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The mind has not fallen as far as the rest of human nature.

Held that the damage of sin lay in its ability to regulate the passions.

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Subsidiarity

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Pro-community and Anti-collectivist.

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View of the Reformers

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Develop a new kind of Natural law by reasoning not backwards to creation but forwards from the Fall.

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“New Natural Law”

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Nothing but the prudential theorems that follow from the conditions in which the contract originates.

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Aquinas: 5 Perversions of Reason

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Passion
Evil habit
Evil Disposition of nature
Vicious Custom
Evil persuasion
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Demonic Communitarianism

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Makes the Community itself the source of Value.
Epitomized by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels.
Idolatry that eventually demanded sacrifices of blood.

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Accountable Communitarianism

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Submits the community to values of which it is not the source.
Represented by authors of the “Responsive Communitarian Platform.”
Stress the importance of communal integrity.

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Narrative Communitarianism

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Submits it to values of which it is not the source, but which cannot be identified by all.
Admit that there may be such a thing as shared human experience.

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Propitianism

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“I should do unto other as they want, according to Christianity I should do unto others as they need.”

Reinforces the habit of giving in

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Expropriationism

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“I may take from others to help the needy, giving nothing of my own; according to Christianity I should give of my own to help the need, taking from no one.

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14
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Robin Hood Fallacy

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Expropriationism

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Subsidy of Good Causes

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If govt ended this then the good causes would thrive.

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Solipsism

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“Human beings make themselves, belong to themselves, and have value in and of themselves; according to Christianity they are made by God, belong to Him, and have value because they are loved by him.

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John Locke

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Held that we are not to use others merely as means to our ends.
Reason: because we serve God’s end.

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Immanuel Kant

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Held that we are not to use other merely as means to our ends.
Reason: because we are ends in ourselves (without reference to God)

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Abolutionism

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“We cannot be blamed when we violate the moral law, because we cannot help it, we have no choice, or because it is our choice; according to Christianity we must be blamed because we are morally responsible beings.

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Perfectionism

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“Human effort is adequate to cure human evil; according to Christianity our sin can be erased only by the grace of God.”

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Universlism

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“Human race forms a harmony whose divisions are ultimately either unreal or unimportant; according to Christianity human harmony has been shattered by sin and cannot fully be healed by any means short of conversion.”

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Neutralism

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“Virtue of tolerance requires suspending judgements about good and evil; According to Christianity it requires making judgements about good and evil.”

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Quantitative Fallacy

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The meaning of tolerance is tolerating; therefore the more you tolerate, the more tolerant you are.

24
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Skeptical fallacy

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Best foundation for tolerance is to avoid having strong convictions about good and evil; therefore the more you doubt, the more tolerant you are.

25
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Collectivism

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“The state is more important to the child than the family; according to Christianity the family is more important to the child than the state.”

26
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Desperate Gestures

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Most mysterious moral error of political liberalism.

27
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Political Liberalism-Broadly

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Constitutional govt with a representative legislature

28
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Political Liberalism- in political economy

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Competitive, self-regulating market with minimal govt interference.

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Political Liberalism - Colloquially

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The Contemporary variety of government driven social reformism.

30
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Apologetic Fallacy

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If you cannot help having strong convictions the next best foundation for tolerance is refusing to express or act upon them; therefore, the more pusillanimous you are, the more tolerant you are.

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Instrumentalism

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Faith should be used for the ends of the state; according to Christianity believers should certainly be good citizens, but faith should not be used.

32
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Wanted the state to invent a civil religion to his order and then make use of it.

33
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Lynch v. Donnelly

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Concerned whether a Christmastime nativity display could be financed by a municipal government.
“In God we Trust”
1. These acts have nothing to do with religion
2. They are simply indispensable
3. They are a noble lie

34
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Moralism

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God’s grace needs to the help of the state; Christianity merely asks the state to get out of the way.

35
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Caesarism

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The laws of man are higher than the laws of God; according to Christianity the laws of God are higher than the laws of man.

36
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Employment Division v. Smith (II)

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Justice Scalia appealed to the notion that the issue in free exercise cases is not whether the state’s motives are ‘compelling,’ but whether they are ‘neutral.’

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Traditionalism

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What has been done is what should be done; Christianity insists that any merely human custom may have to be repented.

38
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Neutralism

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“leave me alone”

Because everyone ought to mind his own business, moral and religious judgments should be avoided.

39
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Subsidiarity

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Precept in Catholic Social Thought
Holds that greater and higher social institutions like the state exist just to help lesser and subordinate ones like the family.

40
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Sphere Sovereignty

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Prominent in Protestant social thought.

Ordering social institutions horizontally instead of vertically.

41
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Mammonism

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Wealth is the object of commonweallth and its continual increase even better; According to Christianity wealth is a snare, and its continual increase even worse.

42
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Russell Conwell

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19th century Baptist Preacher

Maintained that to make money is the same thing as to preach the Christian gospel.

43
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Meritism

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I should do unto others as they deserve.

“God helps those who help themselves”

44
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Civil Religionism

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America is a chosen nation, and its projects are a proper focus of religious aspiration; according to Christianity America is but one nation among many, no less and no more loved by God.

45
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Stages of Civil Religionism

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First- Massachusetts Bay colony
Second- The colonies just before the Revolution
Third- Early and middle Republic
Fourth- The late Republic

46
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Quietism

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Vanity which is thinking that Christ need not make a difference in the public square just because the public square is not the church.

47
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Positivism

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Vanity which is thinking that although Christ should make a difference to what we do in the public square, he should make no difference to how we study it because we should ‘suspend’ our world views and ‘let the facts be themselves.’

48
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Accommodationism

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Vanity which is imagining that we have put on the mind of Christ already just because we have absorbed one of the secular ideologies and called it Christian.

49
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Ways of reversing the Suppression of Knowledge.

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Turn back the question, dissipate smoke
connect the dots, release the catch
play back the tape, call attention to the obvious
tighten the noose, do nothing but wait for God.

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