Worldviews
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Theology, Who Needs It?
Which Modernity Has It?
Quadrilaterally
Yours
Power Pointdexter
100
Powerful influences so deeply embedded in our culture we don't see them.
What are "hidden worldviews ?"
100
Unreflective believing based on blind faith rejecting critical reflection.
What is Folk Theology?
100
Priest or Shaman as source of authority.
What is Pre-modernism?
100
The foundation and "norming norm" of the Quadrilateral.
What is Scripture?
100
The arena in which an event or activity occurs.
What is context?
200
Belief ideas that remain exclusively on an intellectual level.
What are confessional beliefs?
200
The perception that theology just examines everything to death taking the life out of the Christian's relationship with God
What is the Killjoy Objection?
200
Mystery, metaphor and emotion are suspect and inferior to sound thinking
What is Modernism?
200
The two components of the Quadrilateral that currently intersect with the "thought forms of culture" in the West.
What are Reason and Experience?
200
God himself is the object of study.
What is Theology Proper?
300
Beliefs that are reflected in our actions.
What are convictional beliefs?
300
"Credo ut intelligam"
What is, "I believe in order that I may understand?"
300
The innate goodness of humanity is suspect.
What is Postmodernism?
300
Provides us with the wisdom of the past which offers us a means of guidance in the present.
What is Tradition?
300
A group that has hard boundaries - for example if circles are inside, squares will be outside.
What is "Western bounded set thinking?"
400
Defines worldview as a heart orientation.
Who is James Sire?
400
The three main tools used in the theological task.
What is Scripture, Heritage of the Church and the Thought forms of Culture?
400
A kind of suspicion of all absolute truth claims.
What is Postmodernism?
400
Although it cannot produce faith it can shorten the leap.
What is Reason?
400
Commitments that are passed on to us by our family and communities - often impacting things group members believe without them realizing it.
What are Embedded Beliefs?
500
This is achieved when confessional beliefs line up with convictional beliefs.
What is a "congruent story?"
500
Any thinking, reflecting or contemplating on the reality of God.
What is theology?
500
It exalts reason to the degree that it tends to put faith second.
What is Modernism?
500
Nowadays this is almost always confirmed by scholarship.
What is an orthodox interpretation of Scripture?
500
Refers to the habitually uncritical acceptance of instructions, teachings, interpretations of scripture at face value.
What is the first naiveté?
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