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World Views Shmrld Views
Theology, Who Needs It?
Which Modernity Has It?
Quadrilaterally Yours
Power Pointdexter
100
Powerful influences so deeply embedded in our culture that 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. Worldview tended to be somewhat tribal and very localized.
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
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 Post-modernism
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 world view 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 Post-modernism
400
Although this 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 the 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
The three necessary traits for being a theologian.
What is 1. A heart for God. 2) Being dissatisfied with present level of understanding. 3) A willingness to work hard.
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
Faithful Belief, Faithful Actions, Faithful Passions
What are "Orthodoxy, Orthopraxis, Orthopathy