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World and life view |
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| refers to scientists search for a theory of everything, a unifying absolute |
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| man is ultimate; no higher being or power |
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| loss of hope;pessimism, a "line of dispair is the logical response to the loss of hope- to naturalism" |
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| Idealistic- individuals construct their own meaning; no objective metaphysical reality |
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| Idealistic. ideals, metaphysics, universals (plato's terms for ultimate reality) |
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| life is lived for pleasure (which is the highest good). eat, drink, & be merry |
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| Human beings are ultimate reality; nothing is above, beyond, or greater |
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The Word, the Logos, the Creator-God became flesh and dwelt amoung us
John 1:14 |
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| Impenetrable Concrete Slab |
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| divides Schaeffer's upper & lower story: the two cannot be mixed. |
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| living out one's faith among the world rather than trying to live behind a wall |
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| one in whom biblical truth is at work in every part of life; not just in a religious portion |
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| Old and New Testament values |
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| a faith commitment without reason |
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| tends to discount the miraculous and supernatural elements in the Bible |
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| Schaeffer's section of the divided field of knowledge dealing rationally with the natural world |
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| naturalism; the natural world is the only reality |
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| the specific parts of the natural world |
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| evidence to support a viewpoint |
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| providing ideas and facts that one must know to understand and accpept the gospel |
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| optimistic world view prevalent since Renaissance: man is basically good. his progress is inevitable |
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| comprehensive, conditioned, challenged, chosen & continuous |
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| Schaeffer's term for non-reason. subjective aproach to metaphysical truth. "what i feel makes it real. what i like makes it right" |
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| the great questions of life |
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where did i come from? (orgin) why am i here? (purpose) where am i going? (destiny) who am i?
naturalistic answers begin and end with chance |
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| limits: no unifying absolute. verification but no meaning. the meaning of things is not self-evident |
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| added investigation of particulars to Scripture & Church teaching; "natural theology" |
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| re-emphasis on inductive rather than deductive; God's Word and God's World |
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| positivism; 3 stages of progress, from theological to metaphysical to posative naturalism |
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| progress in nature; natural selection and survival of the fittest |
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| pragmatism (what works = truth) extended scientific methodology to education |
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| popularized Darwinism. Coined Agnostic. |
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| a polite atheism. God is unknown and/or unknowable |
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| man is born tabula rosa (blank slate); all knowledge comes through nature |
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| a natural economic force drives the struggle (Hegel's dialectic) for progress, but he rejected Hegel's "world soul." |
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reacted against civilization.
nature and natural freedom= truth |
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| applied Darwinism to social sciences |
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Strength: can speak to "meaning"
Limitation: lacks means of verification and has no unifying absolute |
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| "neo-platonist" philosopher; de-emphasized material world |
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existentialist theologian. "neo-orthodox"
truth is built on my experience |
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Irish bishop. reacted against materialism.
nothing exist independent of perception |
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| cogito ergo sum (i think, therefore i am) start with the mind and not with the natural world |
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| History progresses through a struggle guided by a spiritual force (a world soul or spirit) |
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| secular existentialist. Sartre's mentor |
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| separated faith and reason (nomena and phenomenon) into two mutually exclusive spheres |
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Christian existentialist.
Faith and reason are not only seperate but opposed to one another |
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used mind, dialectic, and intution to access forms, and ideas.
allegory of teh cave (nature is just shadows) |
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The Chrstian Mind
"Ours is the most secular generation of Christianity in the history of the church" |
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Politics at God's Funeral
evangelicals are too secular to inspire a return ot selfless values |
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Invictus; optomistic humanism
"i am the master of my fate; i am the captian of my soul" |
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pioneer psychologist
"in science i missed the factor of meaning; and in religion that of empiricism" |
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Psychology as Religion
The Cult of Self-Worship |
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| "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ" |
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| Your adversary, the Devil, prowls around like a roaring lion |
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| The unexamined life is not worth living |
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| 3 stages: theological, metaphysical, posative |
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| Scientific methodology to education |
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Popularized "Darwinism"
and coined "agnostic" |
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| Nature is more than shadows |
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| God's word and God's world |
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| Human beings are the ultimate reality |
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| Separated reason and faith |
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| Nothing exists independant of perception |
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| Religious existentialist who separated faith and reason into two mutually exclusive spheres |
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Secular existentialist. Sartre's mentor.
"Being in the world" |
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| Stressed the absurdity and meaningless of individual existence. There is unfortunately no God to give meaning to life |
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Existentialist theologian.
"truth" is built on my experience.
neo-orthodox |
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| Blank slate (tabula rasa) |
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| no unifying absolute, strength |
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| Darwinism to social sciences |
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| Natural World is only reality |
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| Nothing is known unless God makes it luminous |
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| The human mind was not harmed by the fall |
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| Methodical Doubt- don't assume what you see with your eyes is |
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| No existence of matter independant of perception |
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| All knowledge comes through human experience |
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| Go to nature for truth, the social contract |
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| He believed in an absolute or world spirit that is evident in and guides history |
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| Truth and reality "exist" through experience |
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| Applied existentialism to theology. Christ is risen in our hearts |
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| Applied Hegel to materialistic/economic law |
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| Positivism: the material world is all there is |
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| Sought scientific basis for materialism and Hegel's optimism |
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| created a polite form of atheism |
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| Applied Darwinism to human society |
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| Each individual constructs their own meaning |
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| Pragmatism- what seems to work is truth |
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| Ther is no God- there is no basis for hope |
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| Only science has a genuine claim to knowledge- mathematical pattern |
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| our world view is pieced together from totalilty of experience. defenition |
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| our worldview is not consciously chosen. it is_______ -absorbed from one's enviornment particulary and intintally, home and parents , then one's widenign sources |
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| our world view is faced with conflicting opinions, options and ideas from friends, acquaintances, school, etc. . . |
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| our world view is ______- increasingly making choices, consciously and unconscionsly |
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| a____________: one's weltanschauung is established, but continues to be conditioned, challenged, and chosen |
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| foundation of incarnational faith |
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| God so loved the world that He gave His Son |
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| priorities of incarnational faith |
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| we should no longer live for ourselves, but for HIm |
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| the great commandment of incarnational faith |
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| love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength |
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| the new commandment of incarnational faith |
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| existentialist theologian |
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