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The person responsible for the Set Dynamics Conceptualizations found in the seminal book Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues.
Who is Paul G. Hiebert
This is primarily concerned with developing the skills to successfully navigate the distance between the First and Second Naïveté.
What is a (Christian) University Education
The literal interpertation of the Latin phrase Incurvatus in se
What is curving in towards ourselves
A group that has hard boundaries - for example if circles are inside, squares will be outside.
What is "Western bounded set thinking?"
Here eventually one begins to reengage former concepts at new and deeper levels recognizing our initial concepts as aspects or parts of the greater whole.
What is The Second Naivete
Christ, Scholarship, Community and Service
What are the APU Cornerstones?
The three qualities of a good theologian discussed in class
What are Interpretive, Relationally Excellent and Appropriately Integrative
In this set, anything moving toward becoming an apple, such as an apple bud or blossom, can easily be considered an apple
What is a Centered Set
Refers to the crisis that eventuates when one chooses to move forward from belief alone and examine embedded religious and theological claims with deeper logic and critical thinking
What is the Critical Distance Stage #2
Comes from the Greek word πολεμικός (“warlike”) and refers to writing that functions as a kind of rhetorical battle.
What is Polemic Literature
The theory that explains the development of culture as a way for humankind to manage the deep seated fear of its own mortality.
What is Terror Management Theory?
Fuzzy-set thinking is consistent with which categorization type
What is No Catagorizers
The two main functions of traditional religion which prevent the critical distance required to attain the second naivete
What are accusation (fear of punishment) and consolation (the desire for protection or shelter)
Has large catagories for "right" and "wrong" and a small catagory for different
What is a Narrow Categorizer
Refers to the habitually uncritical acceptance of instructions, teachings, interpretations of Scripture at face value.
What is the First Naiveté?
Multifaceted work of Christ that addresses sin and its consequences reconciling humanity to God
What is the Atonement