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What is this formula: R - F = M

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Reason - Faith = Modernism

Anti-supernaturalism; you can know everything through science.

2
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What is this formula: F - R = E

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Faith - Reason = Existentialism

Metanarrative upper floor - you cannot know the meaning. You have to make up the meaning for yourself.

3
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What is this formula: - F - R = P

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No Faith + No Reason = Postmodernism

No hope, despair.

4
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What must philosophy always be attached to?

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Sociology.

5
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What’s the best description to the Christian approach to life found in the Bible?

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Pre-Modernism.

6
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Rationalism focuses on what at the epistemological story of the starting point? What is Rationalism?

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Thinking or the mind.

7
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Empiricism focuses on what?

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The senses.

8
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What best describes Post Modernism?

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Suspicious of metanarratives.

9
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What did German historical criticism lead to?

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Liberalism.

10
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Who claimed in 400 BC that Relativism is knowledge?

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Sophists.

11
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Which 2 Greek philosophers had the greatest impact on religion?

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Plato and Aristotle.

12
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How did Plotinus baptize Plato?

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  • He took the Greek philosophical notions of Plato and put them in Christian language and injected it into Christianity.
  • This is where we started getting weird ideas like the doctrine of the trinity.
13
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When Plato spoke of the One, how much did he think we could know?

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Not much, he was mostly agnostic.

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What 2 things make up the universal that makes sense of all the particulars according to Aquinas?

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  • Metanarrative, upper and lower floors.
  • Upper = intangible
  • Lower = physical
  • Faith and Reason
15
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What was the new center of Enlightenment hope?

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Reason.

16
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What universal did Descartes start with?

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His own mind.

17
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Without scientific proof as the basis of knowing, what did the Enlightenment say you were left with?

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Sense data.

18
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Who believes there were no innate ideas or beliefs in us at creation?

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John Locke.

19
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Why is it important to understand what historical liberalism is?

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  • To see what it collapsed into.

- If you don’t understand Modernism, you’re not going to get Post Modernism and the context of disbelief today.

20
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What did Modernism lead to?

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Post Modernism.

21
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Once Descartes proves his own existence, what did he attempt to go on from there through?

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The existence of God.

22
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In the Enlightenment, many Christian thinkers saw revelation as what?

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  • They saw it as an add on that was not essential.

- The stool

23
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Contrast the upper and lower floors of the metanarrative.

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  • Upper = intangible things (i.e. love, faith, justice, etc.)
  • Lower = tangible, physical world (everything that can be seen/touched, material things)
24
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What is a metanarrative?

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A grand story that makes sense of all the particulars, or a worldview.

25
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Discuss how the metanarrative engages the upper and lower floors.

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  • The metanarrative is the universal that informs/makes sense of all the particulars.
  • The doctrine of epistemology in its very function.
  • Your metanarrative informs every aspect of life (i.e. what you see, what you know)
26
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How was Aquinas the open door to liberalism?

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Because he said that the mind was not fallen.

27
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What was the next jump from Aquinas’s notion “We can start with ourselves alone and know God.”?

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We can start with ourselves and know everything.

28
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What 3 areas did rationalism affect or create: humanist approach to God and man.

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  • Natural religion = I believe only what I can see or what I can rationalize.
  • Autonomous man = In 400 - 500 years we go from “intellect isn’t fallen” to “intellect is all we need.
  • Romanticism = Left w/o a way to distinguish man from machine. Man is unique only if we accept Scripture. Rejects the basis of meaning, same as animals. Leaves man w/ meaninglessness.