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90 Cards in this Set
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Why study other worldviews?
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-Command to love others
-to make a defense |
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3 basic worldview structures?
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Theism. Pantheism. Naturalism.
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Abrahamic Religions
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-Judaism
-Islam -Christianity |
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Deism
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Personal God that does not sustain
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Polytheism
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Belief in many gods
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Animism
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Belief that everything has a spirit. ex://Pocahauntas
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2 Fundamental differences in Theistic Worldvies
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1) Who is Jesus
2) Divine Revelations |
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Deism: Fundamental Differences
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1) Jesus is not god
2) No divine revelation |
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Judaism: Fundamental Differences
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1) Jesus is not God
2) Divine Revelation ends in OT |
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Christianity: Fundamental Differences
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1) Jesus is God/Trinity
2) Divine Revelation continues in NT |
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Islam: Fundamental Differences
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1) Jesus is a prophet
2) Divine Revelation in Mohammad |
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Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints: Fundamental Differences
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1)Jesus was an exalted preexisting Spirit
2) New Revelation |
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Naturalism: Basic View
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God does not exist, the physical world is all there is
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Atheism
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Belief in no God
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Agnosticism
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Unsure if god exists
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Materialism
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Belief in only material world
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Nihilism
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Belief in no god, no purpose, no meaning, nothing matters
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Secular Humanism
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Every human has value, purpose, and is to be respected
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Atheistic Existentialism
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You give you meaning and purpose
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Charles Dickens: Scrooge, is an example of (what worldview)
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Naturalism
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Pantheism: Basic View
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-God is the Universe and the goal is to become one with the universe
-only nonphysical exists like the universe and spiritual reality |
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Pantheism 1.0: Monism
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All is one
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Features of monism:
1) The soul of each human is: 2) Oneness with the universe is: 3) Oneness with the universe is: 4) Oneness with the universe is: |
1) the soul of the universe
2) Passing beyond human personality 3) noncognitive 4) beyond good and evil |
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Pantheism 2.0 merges (1) with (2)
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1) Monism
2) Western Individuality |
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Features of New Age:
1) We create own reality through: 2) A preoccupation with: 3) the mixing and matching of spiritual stuff in spiritual "pot" 4) Salvation is found: |
1) mental activity
2) the spiritual 3) syncrestic 4) within |
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Worldview and Avocados?
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Like Avocados, you can compare worldviews to one another
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Different Conceptions of a Worldview? (2)
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1) Road map - does it line up with the way we experience the world
2) Feast - is it attractive |
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4 Tests for Worldviews
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1) Test of Reason
2) Test of Experience 3) Test of Practice 4) Test of Scripture |
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Naturalism and Test of Reason
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- can only be coherent if you are a nihilist
-evolution cannot explain why we should trust reason |
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Naturalism and Test of Experience
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- Arbitraily restricts the data
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Naturalism and 1) Roadmap 2) Feast
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No and No!
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Pantheism and Test of Reason
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-Proud to be inconsistent
-Rejects the laws of logic |
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Pantheism and Test of Experience
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-No reason to account for suffering
-Goal is to become nonhuman |
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Pantheism 1) Roadmap 2) Feast
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No and No!
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Biblical WOrldview on Test of Reason
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- consistent and coherent
- explanation for reason |
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Biblical Worldview on Test of Experience
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-explains our outer experiences
-explains our inner experiences |
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Biblical Worldview 1)Roadmap 2) Feast
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Yes and Yes!
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Jesus and Truth:
"To witness to the truth" |
John 18:33-38
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Jesus and Truth: Jesus
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1) I have come to bare wittness of the truth
2) of the truth or not of the truth |
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Jesus and Truth: Pilate
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1) What is Truth?
2) Not of the Truth |
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Truth and the Bible: 'emet
1)What is 'emet |
Hebrew
-Faithfulness -Factuality 1) Our God is the God of Truth 2) God's word is true |
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"Our God is the God of Truth"
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Isaiah 65:16
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Truth in New Testament: Alethia
1) What is alethia |
Greek
-Factuality -Completeness 1) The word of God is true 2) The gospel is true |
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The Trinity and the Truth
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1) God the Father is the true God
2) Jesus the son, is the truth 3) Holy Spirit is the Truth |
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Acts 5
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Ananias Lied to the Holy Spirit
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Truth in Philosophy: Correspondance Theory of truth
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A proposition is true provided there exists a fact corresponding to it
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Common Sense Theory of Truth example
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Seinfield: "But I'm not a Marine Biologist"
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Propositional Truth: Truth is a relationship between:
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Propositions and Reality
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A proposition is a:
What is a proposition most simply? |
1) Relationship
2) a truth claim |
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Logic
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The proper use of our reason
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Metaphysics
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Reality, what exists/ is true
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Epistemology
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Knowledge
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The Texas Two-Step
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1) Something is Either True or False (Metaphysics)
2)Someone may know if it is True of False (Epistemology) |
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3 things about Propositions
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1) Objective
2) True or False in Reality 3) Our Paradigm Proposition: "There is a burger in the bag" |
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Beliefs:
1) To believe something is to: |
1) hold it to be true
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Reasonable Belief:
We can know if beliefs are: |
-A belief with evidence
-Reasonable |
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Knowledge in the Bible
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1) proverbs
2) John 9 3) Warnings against knowledge |
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We know something if: (3)
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1) we believe it
2) it is true 3) it is reasonable |
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To know something, we do not need:
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Certainty and scientific evidence
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The Search for Certainty
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1) We know a lot of stuff
2) Knowledge = 100% certainty |
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Implications of Knowledge
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1) Epistemological Humility
2) Confidence in the Gospel 3) Heirarchy of beliefs |
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"And I, When I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with loffty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified"
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1 COR 2:1-2
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De Weese's 3 senses of Pstmodern
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1) Postmodernism as worldview
2) Postmodernism as culture 3) Postmodernism as style |
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Kant
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-Leader to postmodern philosophers
-high view of reason -makes a distinction between things that are knowable |
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Nietzsche
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-Leader to postmodern philosophers
-perspectivalism |
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Wittgenstein
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-Leader to postmodern philosophers
-language games |
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Lyotard
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-Postmodern Philosopher
-first to use "postmodern" -incredulity towards metanarratives |
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Fouchult
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-Postmodern Philosopher
-Knowledge of History is subjective -Knowledge = power |
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Derrida
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-Postmodern Philosopher
-deconstructivism |
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Rorty
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-Postmodern Philosopher
-pragmatism -rejects our map of correspondance theory of truth |
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What do naturalists say that all reality is?
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Reality is natural, not supernatural, universe is all there is
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Should Christians Reject 100% of naturalism?
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No
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According to Cosgrove, what is the epistemological crisis of naturalism?
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Crisis in knowledge
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What does atheistic naturalism lead to?
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Nihilism
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According to Horner, something is coherent when ____
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it hold together
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According to Horner, Postmodernism is not a ___but a ___
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1) metaphysical perspective
2) epistomological stance |
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According to horner, what is a core belief?
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belief at the center of its web, worldview's central beliefs that distinguish it from other beliefs
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Horner defines theology as:
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Thinking about God and about all of reality in relation to God
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According to Horner, What is knowledge?
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Justified true belief that combines true belief with rational belief
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According to Horner, What does it mean to think contexually?
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Approaching your interactions with people and ideas by stiving to understand where you are and whom you are
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What Verbs are used in to describe Paul's approach in Acts 17)
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REP
Reasoned, Explaining, Proving |
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According to CS Lewis, Laws of human nature
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-what human beings out to do/not do
-not made by humans |
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According to CS lewis, what are the two views concerning the universe?
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-materialistic view
-religious view |
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According to Russel, truth consists in some form of correspondance between:
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belief and fact
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According to Horner, what are the four elements of faith?
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OCCT
-object -content -trust -commitment |
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According to horner, Proper faith is an inescapable part of ____
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WISDOM
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Postmodernists reject what concerning truth?
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Correspondence theory of truth
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What do postmodernists say concerning universal standards
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there are no universal standards due to ones culture and narrative
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In postmodernism, is the author's intent important
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nope
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What does a disciple of truth embrace?
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TRUTH
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