GOVT 200 Exam #1

What is reason absolutized?

An autonomous human thought or rationalism

Within the ontological question, philosophers have termed the alternatives of various starting points as the ground of grace v. ground of nature. What are various philosophers attempting to ask through this analogy?

What is the starting point?

What are the two most important teleological possibilities within the final analysis of the teleological question?

Kingdom of God v. Kingdom of Earth

A Biblical Theistic Axiology asks the question: How does man (ultimately) know? What does this mean specifically?

The God of the Bible is the ultimate value but that man, created in the image of God, is of infinite, eternal value.

In what year did Dr. Martin Luther nail his 95 Theses to the church door?

1517

Which of the following represents a naturalistic ontology?

A non-supernatural force is productive of existence.

Which of the following correctly defines the term "Worldview"?

A worldview is a philosophy of life which attempts to address and answer the grand questions of life to direct man in organizing his relationships, or in the manner he should live and construct all of life.

Read the following quote and identify which option matches it. This stage represents intellectuals or individuals who are absorbed and preoccupied with presuppositions and ideas, who routinely meditate on metaphysical things, and those who attempt to answer the questions worldviews address. It represents a vision of how life can be understood and contains the essential elements of a worldview. This is also known as the stage of conceptualization, whereby concepts and ideas are blended into a complex system of philosophical thought. Men like Karl Marx or Charles Darwin operated at this level.

Abstraction

There is a design/structure flowing from each worldview. Which of the following on the institutional spectrum references all of the art forms, expressive of the ultimate beauty - ranging from the literary arts such as literature and history on the one hand, to the audiovisual arts including music, painting, and sculpturing as examples on the other?

Aesthetics

Which influential Latin Church father, who was Bishop of Hippo, developed the first complete Christian philosophy of history and of the state within a systematic presentation of Christian theology through his City of God, which dominated European Christendom for close to 800 years?

Aurelius Augustine

Which worldview flowed out of the Protestant Reformation?

Biblical Christian

Given examples of covenants within the Holy Commonwealth arrangement, which is the third?

Civil-Social Covenant

What is the purpose of civil-government from a Biblical perspective?

Civil-government is divinely ordained for order and procedure in a fallen world.

While the Protestant Reformation is dated differently, most historians and academics begin the Reformation with the posting of the 95 Theses on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany by whom?

Dr. Martin Luther

Within the institutional structure and procedure of the third primary question, we read of seven institutional arenas. Which of the following is one of those seven? This question requires you be very specific in your response.

Ecclesiastical

Given examples of covenants within the Holy Commonwealth arrangement, which is the second?

Ecclesiastical Covenant

Which covenant within the Holy Commonwealth arrangement suggest that God propositions every person to obey His way and will?

Ecclesiastical Covenant

Which covenant within the Holy Commonwealth arrangement suggests that God is propositioning man relative to a corporate relationship with the church?

Ecclesiastical Covenant

There is a design/structure flowing from each worldview. Which of the following on the institutional spectrum references relationships between men and the marketplace?

Economical

The phrase "there is no institutional interposition between God and Man," means that institutional structures are directly responsible to whom?

God

The Kingdom of God teleology asks the question: What is the purpose of all existence? What does this mean specifically?

God and His rule are in ultimate control and determinative of direction in time.

A Biblical Revelation Epistemology asks the question: How does man (ultimately) know? What does this mean specifically?

God disclosed the truth of Himself and what exists in verbal, propositional form, the Bible.

Which term was used in Puritan America, as flowing from the Reformation period, which recognized that God is over all of life?

Holy Commonwealth

One basic presupposition of the Biblical Christian Worldview is that under the sovereign God, man is king. This refers to which presupposition?

Man is King under God.

One basic presupposition of the Biblical Christian Worldview is that all men, on the basis of the finished work of God-in-Christ, have direct access to God. What is this presupposition?

Man is Priest under God.

One basic presupposition of the Biblical Christian Worldview is that all men are given the gift of revelation under God. This refers to which presupposition?

Man is Prophet under God.

What is meant by the depravity of man?

Man is depraved in that he is a fallen sinful creature and cannot save himself.

When referencing the Biblical Christian worldview, three basic presuppositions are asserted. What is the second?

Man is prophet, priest, and king under sovereign God.

When considering the axiological question, which possible option asserts that matter is the ultimate value?

Materialistic

Given examples of covenants within the Holy Commonwealth arrangement, which is the first?

Personal Covenant

In his writings from "On Property," Madison states that "a man's land, or merchandize, or money is called his what?"

Property

In order to differentiate between the epistemological possibilities of revelation and reason, it is necessary to distinguish between rationality and rationalism. Which of the following is correct?

Rationalism absolutizes man's intellect.

Within the epistemological question, it can be assumed that we ultimately know - but only on the basis of revelation, intuition, or what?

Reason

While the Reformation is certainly ascribed to Dr. Martin Luther, it had been anticipated over a century and half earlier by the Englishmen John Wycliffe and the Bohemian Jan (John) Huss. Huss was highly influenced by the writings of whom?

St. Augustine

What does a naturalistic ontology purport?

That man and everything else exist on the basis of some yet undiscovered non-supernatural or naturalistic force.

What does a rationalistic epistemology purport?

That man knows simply by exercising his intellect.

What does a humanistic axiology purport?

That man, and particularly, the awesome potential of his intellect, is the ultimate value.

What does a Kingdom of Earth teleology purport?

That some yet-to-be discovered non-supernatural force is in ultimate control and determinative of direction in time.

A Biblical Supernatural Ontology asks the question: How do all things exist? What does this mean specifically?

The God of the Bible created everything that exists including man.

when referencing the Biblical Christian worldview, three basic presuppositions are asserted. What is the first?

The Kingdom of God is spiritual.

The first worldview to be discussed is the Biblical Christian worldview, which flowed out of which restatement?

The Reformation

Individuals who had access to the Bible advanced alternative interpretive methodologies that conflicted with the church's standard approach. A Protestant hermeneutic was developing that laid greater stress upon the grammar and original languages of the Bible as well as its historical and literary contexts. Reformation Europe produced new political readings of Biblical passages that resulted in radical constitutional ideas. As a result, new political theologies were developing, multifaceted in nature, that challenged old perspectives on civil and ecclesiastical government as well as the authority of magistrates and rulers. These emerging continental ideas were quickly making their way into England in the 1570s as part of the Puritan movement,6 and eventually arrived onto America's shores with the Plymouth Pilgrim Separatists and the New England Puritans

The advent of a new hermeneutic, or interpretation of the Scriptures as flowing from the Reformation.

In order to answer the first two primary questions, we must address four simple, subsidiary "philosophical" questions. What is the third?

The axiological question

The first primary question - which asks the origin of the cosmos - is often times referred to as what?

The cosmological question

In order to answer the first two primary questions, we must address four simple, subsidiary "philosophical" questions. What is the second?

The epistemological question

The second primary question - which asks the nature of the origin of man - is often times referred to as what?

The epistemological question

In order to answer the first two primary questions, we must address four simple, subsidiary "philosophical" questions. What is the first?

The ontological question

Which of the following is unrepresentative of the components of a worldview? The epistemological question

The scientific question

What is a worldview?

The scope or lens by which an individual views the world and their reality

In order to answer the first two primary questions, we must address four simple, subsidiary "philosophical" questions. What is the fourth?

The teleological question

When considering the axiological question, which possible option asserts that a god is above or beyond man as the ultimate value?

Theistic

When referencing the Biblical Christian worldview, three basic presuppositions are asserted. What is the third?

There is no institutional interposition between God and man.

The Biblical principle of private property is evidenced in the Eighth Commandment of the Ten Commandments. What does it say? (KJV)

Thou shalt not steal.

To recognize the existence of a covenantal order is to acknowledge that God has not . . .

To recognize the existence of a covenantal order is to acknowledge that God has not . . .

As witnessed by the growth of Christianity in Europe - and by extension North America - we're able to ascertain that a worldview is able to do what?

Travel

People presuppose to structure all of life on the basis of presuppositions and conclusions drawn, and which are reflected within the institutional structure and procedure of life. Therefore, as biblical Christians, we orient the structure of all life in which direction?

Vertically

Martin suggests that a worldview has three components - which come in the form of primary questions. What is the third primary question?

What is the institutional structure and procedure of the worldview?

Martin suggests that a worldview has three components - which come in the form of primary questions. What is the first primary question?

What is the origin, nature, and destiny of the cosmos?

Martin suggests that a worldview has three components - which come in the form of primary questions. What is the second primary question?

What is the origin, nature, role, and destiny of man?

The axiological question asks which of the following questions?

What, if anything, is the ultimate value?

The teleological question essentially asks what question?

Where are we going?

The ontological question asks what?

Who am I? How do we exist?

According to Martin, we can and should know not only what we believe, but also what?

Why we believe it

Madison claims "the most sacred of all property" is

conscience

The Biblical Christian subscribes to the twin constants of the sovereignty of God and the

depravity of man.

Madison stated that man "has a property very dear to him in the safety and liberty of his . . . "

person

Madison states that man not only has property in his opinions, but more specifically, what sort of opinions?

religious opinions

How is God authorized to claim man as His "property?

through His creation efforts

Which of the following is not a fundamental characteristic of a worldview?

A worldview will attempt to be limited in application. Rather than attempting to address the larger questions of life, it will focus mainly upon ethics and morals.

There is a design/structure flowing from each worldview. Which of the following on the institutional spectrum references the means to acquiring information, including the schools, both formal and informal, and the media?

Educational

A worldview must ultimately provide what?

Enduring answers to the larger questions which are applicable to the whole of life

When answering the four primary questions, we look to locate a worldview's answer to determine its institutional structure and procedure. Within the Biblical Christian worldview, we find a Biblical supernatural ontology. What most fundamental question does this attempt to address?

How and by 'whom' do all things exist?

The epistemological question attempted to answer what?

How do we know?

When considering the axiological question, which possible option asserts that man is the ultimate value?

Humanistic

A contractual order represents relations between and among whom?

Men

According to Madison, what is instituted to protect property of "every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses."

civil government as created by the US Constitution

Within the realm of economics, the Biblical Christian worldview adheres to and practices freedom of enterprise which requires the protection of

private property

The institutional arrangement in the Post-Christian West is a contrast, or unnatural division, identified as the sacred versus the

secular.

There are several signal characteristics that help us identify the prevailing worldviews in a nation or civilization. What is the first characteristic?

A worldview must deal with larger questions.

Which covenant recognizes all of the corporate relationships of man, including marriage, the family, local and national government?

Civil-Social Covenant