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What is Horner’s central point in the Eva Horner story? |
Ideas have consequences. |
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Which Scripture specifically commands us to love God with our mind?
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Mark 12:29-31 |
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What Scripture does Dominus illuminatio mea come from? What does it mean?
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Motto of Oxford University. The lord is my light. Psalms 27:1
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What is the biblical (Hebrew) concept of the “heart”? Which aspects of the human personality does it include?
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Leb (the hebrew word of heart) includes intellect, our choosing of emotions, and our will. Humans include only emotions.
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According to Horner, “worship is _____ and everything is _____.”
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Worship is everything and everything is worship.
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What does it mean to love God with your mind? What does it not mean – what are some misconceptions about it?
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loving God with all that we are, all that we have, and all that we do – heart, soul, mind, strength (Mark 12.28-31)
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The professor located the vision of loving God with our minds within a bigger vision. What was that?
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The bigger vision is loving God with everything we are, we have and he do. If God is God at all then He is God of all.
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Who wrote the logic text described in the book and discussed in class?
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Isaac Watts, “Logic, the Right to use Reason”
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What are the three primary elements of Aristotelian logic? How do they differ from each other?
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Terms, propositions, and arguments (they are shaped and formed)
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What are propositions?
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Are either true or false. They are true is they correspond to reality. If the premises are true the proposition must be true. If the proposition is true the conclusion must be true
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What is the relationship between sentences and propositions
What is the classical definition of truth? |
Correspondence of proposition to reality.
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What is the biblical understanding of truth? What is the key Hebrew term, and what does it mean? How is it translated in English Bibles?
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Emet is the hebrew word. It means stability, strength, solidity. It is translated at faithful and factual.
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What does it mean to say that truth is objective? What is the “object” of a proposition? What is a “subject”?
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Subjective truth is when it is relative, Objective is when it true no matter what.
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What is a (propositional) belief?
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Proposition belief is holding a proposition to be true. Rationally justified true belief is propositional knowledge.
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What makes a belief a true belief?
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If it corresponds to reality
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What makes a belief a rational (reasonable) belief?
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Depends on evidence.
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Can we guarantee that all our beliefs are true? Why or why not?
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No, because we are finite and failable
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What is knowledge?
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When a rational belief connects to truth (reality)
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What does logos mean in Plato’s definition of knowledge (and in 1 Peter 3.15)?
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Rational argument
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How do belief and knowledge relate to each other? Are they exclusive? If not, which includes the other – and why?
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They are not exclusive, we must have knowledge to have a belief
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Why is “absolute proof” (and absolute rational certainty) not required for knowledge?
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General Revelation.
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What is personal knowledge? How does it relate to propositional knowledge?
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Personal is when you know someone personally and propositional knowledge is from books.
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What did the professor say about the importance of thinking well, when it comes to “understanding theBible”?
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We need good reasoning, because we might misinterpret the Bible.
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What (exactly) did he say about 1 Corinthians 12.11?
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He talked about the gifts given by the spirit.
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How did the professor describe Proverbs? Does it define wisdom? How did the professor define wisdom? (Be ready to identify the four elements.)
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Proverbs does not define wisdom, it describes it. Integration of knowing, being and doing in the contest of a community. Knowing is convictions, being is character, doing is competence and community
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Be familiar with the William James quote about character.
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Our thoughts leads to our destiny. The question is who we are going to become.
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Why did the professor refer to Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis?
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He said I forgot that every little action makes character. Choices make our character.
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Identify (very specifically) the different aspects of wisdom discussed by the professor, including key Hebrew terms he specifically noted.
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Musar (teachable, instruction, discipline) Proverbs 1:7. Pethi (Open) translated to english as simple and naive. Naive is to be young, open to influence and suggestions. You can be old and simple which is the one that does not respond to the truth, they are unsettle to their character.
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What was the professor’s advice for becoming a good thinker?
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Read, read, read
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What did he say about the proper grammar of English sentences? Be ready to identify examples like those he used for this topic.
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How we speak and write, influences how we think.
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What did the professor say about Ephesians 4.15?
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Lecture on truth. Paul made up the word truthing, truthing in love. Living in a genuine, faithful.
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What did the professor say about John 3.19-21?
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John the Baptist is talking about Jesus ministry. Men love darkness rather than light, but that who practices the truth walks in light. Not the one who knows the truth, but the one who acts, does and practices the truth. It is not to know but to do and live on.
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What is “Jerusalem” and how does it relate to the actual city of Jerusalem?
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The biblical world view. Cultural Christians, Jews, understand the Christian language. Worldview near
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Which worldviews does Paul encounter in Athens? Which schools of philosophy? Which worldview does each school reflect?
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He encounters polytheistic, naturalism and pantheism. From Epicureans, Stoics and Idolaters.
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What is his initial point of contact with them (where does he find common ground)? Why was he able to appeal to “theistic intuitions”? What was Paul’s strategy in discussing their idolatry?
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He finds common grounds, he find points of contact (Share interests) points of need ( God) and points of tensions (idolatry). He quotes the philosophers.
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What kinds of sources did Paul cite on Mars Hill and why?
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Philosophers. Poems from Epimenides, Aratus and Cleanthes. They describe Zeus.
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What is the “A-Team” of thinking logically? What are the two “As”? How do they relate to asking good questions and giving good reasons?
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Analysis (to pull apart), asking good questions, and Argument(to build something), giving good reasons.
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What is the point of asking What do you mean?
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To paint a picture.
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What is the point of asking How do you know that?
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Putting it in perspective, making them think.
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What two roles does asking So what?play?
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To help understand the relationship between the argument and the conclusion. Pulling the rug is to find self-refusing propositions. When people say their is no truth?- Is that true?
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What does it mean to “take the roof off”? What is the point of that strategic move? How does it relate to asking So what?
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he so what is to find a conclusion, to see what follows from that. Take the roof is to expose them to reality
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What is an “argument”? What is a valid argument? What is required?
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Giving good reasons. It requires terms (clear) and propositions (true). Valid arguments is logic
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What is a sound argument? What is required?
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Is one in which the form is valid and the premises are true.
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What does it mean to love God with our mind?
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To love Him with everything.
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What did C. S. Lewis say about “good philosophy”? What was his point?
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C.S. Lewis is talking to WWII university students, there is a war but also a war of ideas. Choose not to think is to choose to leave those who do not go to war defenseless.
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