Chapter 1-9
A comprehensive framework, or perspective, that answers life's biggest questions about reality, knowledge, ethics, and meaning, influencing an individual's thoughts, actions, and overall way of life.
What is a worldview?
The term referring to people who understand their gender identity to be different from their sex at birth.
What is transgenderism?
The structure of authority that rules over a country or a community.
What is government?
A set of ideas and values that characterizes a group's approach to politics and government.
What is political ideology?
A person'sdefault position toward the world around him or her.
What is posture?
A big story about the world to help people make sense out of life.
What is a metanarrative?
God redeeming creation back to its original state of wholeness.
What is restoration?
Purity of heart and abstinence from wrong sexual activity.
What is chastity?
A Biblical worldview that corresponds to reality as God sees it.
What is truth?
An occasional way of interacting with some of aspect of culture.
What is gesture?
What does CFR stand for?
Creation, Fall and Redemption
The challenge of relating to those who are different from us.
What is difference?
The belief that religion should be excluded from public life-particularly from government, media, education and science.
What is secularism?
Products of human creativity and skill that are meant to be contemplated for their beauty.
What is art?
A person's ability to respond to complex emotional and artistic experiences.
What is sensibility?
Assuming what one is trying to prove.
What is circular reasoning?
Turning away from sin; consists of hating the sin once loved and seeking to be free of it so as to love and serve God.
What is repentance?
The fundamental difference between the triune God and all that He has made.
What is the Creator-creature distinction?
The forms through which we recognize the nature and ways of God.
What is beauty?
A perspective on culture that highly values the achievements -especailly the artistic achievements -of ancient Greece and Rome.
What is Classicism?
The bending that an entity in creation experiences due to sin, as well as the bending back of the entity back towards its structure.
What is direction?
Biologists have learned that men and women differ significantly in their _________ and in the _______.
What is bodies and brains.
The human activity of using tools to transform God's creation for practical purposes.
What is technology?
The belief that a certain kind of political action can produce a perfect society.
What is utopianiasm?
The belief that there are no absolutes and that all judgements-whether about truth, morality or aesthetics-are relative to a particular culture or even a perons's personal preference.
What is Relativism?