Term Midterm

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Agnosticism

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Belief that Confirms the uncertainty of all claims to ultimate knowledge. Human knowledge is limited to experience. It is not possible to know if God exists on not.

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Animism

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Belief that inanimate objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself are animated by a spiritual Presents

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Anti realism

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Invisible processes can be accurately represented by a model but our knowledge depends on preceptors

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Apologist

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One who defends a belief

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Arianism

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Anti-trinitarian. Believes Jesus was made by God, not an equal or coexistent with God

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Aristotelian ism

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Emphasizes deductive reasoning and investigation of natural Phenomena

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Atheism

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①enial of any deity or Personal God

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Bacon ianism

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Scientific inquiry that emphasises inductive reasoning. Usefulness of science

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Catastrophism

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Geological change is a result of Catastrophes

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Contextualism

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History within context of cultural values of the time

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Cosmogony

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Theory accounting for birth of the universe

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Cosmology

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Theories of origin, structure, and order of the universe

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Creationism

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God created the universe immediately and out of Nothing and he made Matter and all things as they exist now

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Creative Evolution

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There is a Purpose and direction in evolution process

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Curiositas

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Appreciating knowledge for its own sake

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Deductive Reasoning

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logical process where conclusions are drawn from first principles and applied to particulars. General to specific

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Deism

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God Made the universe and has remained an involved party, indifferent to the creation

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Determinism

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Life is cause and effect, all facts and events exemplify natural laws and there is no freewill

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Dualism

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1.distiguish between material world and spiritual world

2.Mind vs Matter. Mind is God, Morality, Matter is reason

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Empiricism

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All knowledge is gained from induction or experience

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Epicureanism

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External world is a result of a combination of atoms

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Epistemology

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Investigates origin, name, methods, and limits of human knowledge

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How do you know?

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Essentialism

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the assumption that the definition of a word or idea has always been the same everywhere

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Evolutionism

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Transmutation, developmental ism, darwinism, progressive

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Exegesis

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Close Analysis of any passage - especially the Bible

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Fundamentalism

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Movement in early1900American Protestantism in reaction to theological Modernism. Literal interpretation of the Bible

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Gradualism

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Geological change is the resultof gradual processes that still happen today

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Heresy

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Opinion or doctrine with variance with orthodoxy

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Hermeneutics

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Principles of interpretation

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Higher criticism

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Biblical criticism grew out of enlightenment, rejects traditional veiws of authorship of the Bible. Questions accuracy and veiws miracles and prophecy with scepticism

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Inductive Reasoning

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Logical process of the direction - particular to general, conclusion is verifiable through future experience

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Instrumentalism

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The view that scientific theories do not fully describe physical reality, only approximate it.

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Intellectualism

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God created the universe according to external principals and could not have done it differently.

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Materialism

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All phenomena, including the human mind, are results of material processes. Nothing exists beyond the senses we can percieve.

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Mechanical philosophy

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The scientific view interprets natural processes in machine-like terms. All phenomena can be interpreted by mechanical principles.

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Metaphysics

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The branch of philosophy that deals with first principles.

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Modernism

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A religious movement within modern Protestantism to re-interpret religious doctrines in the light of enlightenment philosophy. Reject supernatural explanations and apply canons of higher criticism.

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Monogenism

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The theory that humanity has descended from one ancestral pair of humans.

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Monotheism

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One God.

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Natural History

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The study of sciences such as botany, geology, and Zoology.

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Naturalism

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Only natural forces exist. The universe is self-sufficient without cause or control and therefore is capable of being explained in only natural terms.

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Natural Philosophy

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Physical science

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Natural Theology

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Theology based on knowledge of the natural work and human reason apart from divine revelation. Seeks evidence of God's governance in nature where everything appears to be designed so perfectly that it points to a Creator.

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Ontology

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Branch of philosophy that studies the nature of being.

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Orthodoxy

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Right belief as defined in the early church

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Pantheism

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philosophy or belief that identifies the universe with God and denies God's personality. God is everything.

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Paradigm

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A cosmological Model, a world picture that incorporates the accepted scientific understanding of any age together with presuppositions that under grid it.

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Patristic

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The study of the early church fathers and their writings.

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Philosophy

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The rational investigation of the truths and Principles of being. The three traditional branches are: Moral, natural, and metaphysical

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Physico-theology

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1650-1850 combines natural philosophy and theology in order to enhance one another by demonstrating that the "two books" of God work together to glorify Him

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Polygenism

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the Hunan Race is descended from several pairs, not just Adam and Eve

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Polytheism

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Belief in may Gods

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Positivism

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A philosophy emphasizing objectivity, facts, and empirical confirmation. It eschews speculation regarding ultimate causes or origins and denies the possibility of final causes or ultimate knowledge that transends experience.

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pre-Adam ism

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there were pre-human forms before Adam and Eve

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present ism

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Assumption that present values and ideas are correct. Tendancy to compare and judge the past by modern standards and to impose present veiws on the past.

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Presupposition

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Assnmption that one takes for granted as axiomatic and that no not need to be demonstrated

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Primary and secondary causation

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Primary causation is the ultimate cause of something, which is traditionally believed to be God. Secondary causation is the process according to which nature operates as described by scientists

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Providence

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the beneficent governance of world, more Particularly, God's ominisient and wise care in directing the universe and affairs of Man.

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Rationalism

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Accepting reason as the supreme authority in Matters of opinion, conduct, and belief. In philosophy the belief that reason alone is the source of knowledge independent of sensory experience. Knowledge and truth are to be tested by deductive methods

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Realism

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the universe has an existence independent of perception. Invisible Processes can be accurately Modeled on a larger scale, we can have valid knowledge of the universe by sensory methods.

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Reductionism

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the reduction to nothing (not just basic parts), Mind is just Matter

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Revelation

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God revealing himself through nature(general) or miracle, prophecy and scripture (special)

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Scientific Naturalism

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Nature + natural Phenomena without recourse to God

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Secularism

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A Movement that advocates ridgid exclusion of thelogy, from institutions of the Public.

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Social Darwinism

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Application of evolutionary concepts to society, survival( or sucess ) of the fittest

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Solipsism

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The assert on that nothing can be proven to exist except one's self and one's own experience ; allother objects and people depend on one's consciousness.

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Teleology

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Final causes exist , th belief that purpose + design are part of nature

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Theism

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Belief;n single, personal, transcendent God, who created and sustains the world

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Thomism

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Theological and Philosophical system by Thomas Aquinas who created a synthesis of Christian and Aristotelian ideas that is accepted by the Roman Catholic Church

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Transcendence and immanence

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In christian theology God is both transcendent and immanent as its sustainer of nature