Worldview
A formal definition of Worldview involves three types of presuppositions. Name them.
Cognitive
Affective
Evaluative
Christian's are not to consider the Bible a book just for private interpretation, but something to be understood in the context of the ____ _____.
Church community - Acts 15:6-7
"God is One" and "God is Three" does not violate the law of non-contradiction. Why?
Both statements are true simultaneously for God.
A major challenge of modern Western cultures is they have split apart what two things?
The secular and the sacred
When people elevate science from a methodology for knowledge to a worldview we say science has become what?
Religion
The view that people define their own meaning in life
Existentialism
Name the four New Testament genres.
Gospel, Theological History, Epistles, Revelation.
Name the three unique elements of a Biblical Worldview of Christian Ontology
1. God created the world from nothing
2. Mankind fell into sin
3. God's free gift of his Son is the solution and atones for sin
There are four approached to Christianity and Culture. Name one.
Christ against culture
Christ in culture
Christi above culture
Christ above but through culture
The theory of evolution's most anti-Christian tenet when elevated to worldview is the denial of _____.
Design or Puropose
Name the primary idea behind modernism
Human reason is capable of reaching absolute truth
Name all five of the principles of applying a Biblical text
Grasp the text in their town
Measure the width of the river
Cross the principlizing bridge
Consult the Biblical map
Grasp the text in our town
Christian's have three sources of truth. What are they?
1. Rationalism / idealism, e.g. logic, mathematics
2. Empiricism / realism, e.g. observation, science
3. God's special revelation, e.g. Scripture
An overarching 'ism' that isolates spiritual truth to personal choice
Secularism
It is very important to distinguish between science as methodology and science as _____.
Worldview
Name the primary idea behind postmodernism
Man is incapable of reaching absolute truth
The three important suppositions about the Bible for good Christian theology are:
1. The authority of Scripture
2. The sufficiency of Scripture
3. The finality of Scripture
The type of theology that examines broad themes across the entire Bible is called _____ theology.
Systematic
To the postmodern mind, what is more important than thinking?
Feeling
Name the four views of science and religion.
Conflict, independence, dialogue, and integration.
Understanding cannot seek faith, but ____________
faith seeks understanding
Christian's should strongly hold to _____ beliefs and more humbly hold to _____ beliefs
Essential and non-essential
While scientific theory advances in revolutions, changes in theology are nearly always _____
cumulative
The refusal to consider how spiritual truth can impact public issues is called ___ _______ _____.
the missing middle
Name the five steps of scientific revolutions
1. Pre-paradigm
2. Normal science
3. Anomaly
4. Crisis and new theory emergence
5. Scientific revolution