Christian Worldview 1 Exam
Examples of worldviews
-Naturalism -Post Modernism -Pantheism -Poralism -Moralistic therapeutic deism -Secular humanism -New age movement -Pre modernism -Atheism
New Age Movement
-Street Pantheism -Attempt to make pantheism more acceptable to western mind -Every western worldview revolves around yourself -Post modern worldview -Famous in Hollywood -Values individual self -Colts became very popular Closer to Christianity than Pantheism
Sole Authority Model (The against/antagonist model)
-This model would state that learning and faith are against each other -The bible is all we need to know everything else is fallen -According to scripture everything is fallen -"I don't need anything but the bible to prepare me for life. Why should I harm my mind with the errors of the world? What I need are bible courses that will prepare me for ministry to a lost world. A bible college would be a good place to study"
A worldview must answer:
1. Who am I? 2. Where did I come from? 3. Why am I here? 4. What is my purpose in life? 5. Where will I go when I die? 6. Why is the world in the condition it is in? 7. What can be done to improve my life? 8. What is right or wrong?
Christain Faith
A belief system that should effect profoundly all of someone's entire life.
Epoch
A period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics
Empiricism
To know through your senses
Post Modernism
current worldview
Per modern
faith based views
Separate Authority Model (the parralle model)
-"God expects us to learn spiritual truths from the bible but academic truths from academics." -They are both needed but there is no overlap (faith and learning) -The bible contains to chemistry there for we learn chemistry from a textbook -"I read the bible for my spiritual growth, but I don't know why anyone would expect to find principles of biology and psychology there. There is no Christain chemistry. There is no Christian psychology or Christain physics. I think a state university is a fine place to earn a college degree, and I will certainly attend a good church there"
Christianity
-5 Solas: Five key points of reformation -Acts 2:42-47 -Martin Luther-monk, learns Latin, write 95 thesis -October 31-nails his letter to Catholic Church door -he reforms Christianity -William Hindel translated the bible with printing press
Equal Authority Model (The integrative model)
-Admits that overlapping and admits faith and learning correlate with each other; they have a mutual relationship. -States the bible and humans are an equal source of truth that combined produce more truth than they do alone -"I have two sources of truth in the study of reality and human nature: The bible and the human academic world. I just combine their insights when I have questions, and then I have more knowledge than anyone who uses just one of the Gods given sources of truth. A Christian college would be an advantage to me as I study both bible and academic subjects"
Pre-Modernism
-Atheistic Externalism- a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own acts of the will -There is no God/value -It's true because I feel it -Humans still have significant but existence proceeds essence -Because of evolution, people have developed a conscience -They are not human without a conscience and conscience starts when you make a choice. So, you are not human until you make a choice -Choice is what separates humans from everything else -This is where authentication, abortion, eugenics, and genocide comes from -Does not occur at the societal level yet.
Historical Criticism
-Historically we can trust the bible to be true never been a historical finding to be discrete that the bible is true. -No creditable historians Letheans believe that Jesus did not exist.
Pre Modern
-Knowledge and truth is going to start with God -Believe in objective truth -Objective truth comes from the Holy -Believes in the supernatural -There is more to discover outside of the universe _Empiricism comes from God=truth; based on Faith -Human nature is determined by God creating us or original sin -Ethics come from God because he says so
Modern
-Knowledge and truth start with man -Believe in objective truth -General knowledge based, no truth outside of the universe -There is no supernatural -Authority comes from science and human reason -Empiricism is determined by objectivism and imperialism and reasoning -Ethics are based on individualism
Post Modernism
-Knowledge and truth start with man -There is no objective truth/unknowable -Believes in supernatural by mysticism and not revelation meaning your own experience -There is no such thing as ultimate authority -Empiricism comes from social subjectivism -Human nature would be a social construct (countries and money) -Ethics based on collectivism
Modern
-Naturalism-everything is natural and there is no supernatural -Another word for Authentic Atheism -The study of material reality does no need the spiritual -Believe the universe is a closed system -All feelings are chemical reactions -Empiricism-we are prebiological machines -Main benefit: they have value for the things around them -Issue: morality, it relies on survival of the fittest --Modern Naturalism has to do with rape, tax fraud, stealing, murder, etc. -Based less on individual morality, but more on structure -Issue with knowledge of religion -Issue: Inherit morality, general revelation
Post Modernism
-Secular Humanism- a sense of naturalism in practice -Religious aspects pulled into naturalism without attributing it to a God-Less passive and more apathetic -More of an attitude than a belief -Biggest combative forms against the church -Separate from naturalism because they have purpose and value as humans, but its whatever they want it to be -Everything is connected without God involved -Believes in personhood -Issue: no attributions, you're the most important person in the room.
Pantheism
-Spirit comes into play -Eastern religion -Hinduism, Buddhism -Everything is God -The path through ones oneness is found in the universe -No values, no purpose, no meaning, no suffering, no disease -Can only exist in isolation
Foundational Authority Model (The worldview model)
-The idea that the bible gives us a foundation of all study -Fully faith-based model -Belief in God makes a difference in academic study -Faith affects the subject areas we take interest in -Faith affects the methods we use to study things -Faith should affect our interpretation of learning -All truth is Gods truth -This model does not try to separate but to explain -My biblical knowledge and Christian life have changed me so that I think in different ways now when I study in areas such as history, psychology, or literature. Calculus is pretty much the same, but I see so many things differently now in other areas of study. A Christian college is helpful to me if it teaches the Christain worldview as a foundation for thinking in all the academic disciples".
What is a worldview?
A lens in which we interpret the world. A set of assumptions or beliefs about reality that can affect how we think and how we live. A set of presuppositions about the nature of the universe in which we live and our place within it
What are Faith Integration Models?
A way to relate faith and learning (a title for your views)
Modern
Academic based views
Glory to God (Solis Deo Gloria)
All of salvation is not to bring us glory but for the glory of God. -Ephesians 2:1-10: explaining to group of believers how scripture really works. By grace you have been saved. We are saved by grace through faith.
Exhaustive Truth
All truth, The sum of all truth
Textual Criticism
Based on sourced to the bible is the most creditable in history
Solis Scripture
Belief the scripture is the only word from God and is the truth and authority to Humans.
The Trinity
Father, Son, Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:26)
Christ is _____
Fully God and fully man
Christ Alone (Solus Christus)
Gift from God, without Christ we would not have salvation, God and God alone is who can save us, salvation comes through Christ.
If all truth is Gods truth
God is the top of everything
A value is going to answer what is ________
Good
General Revelation
Knowledge about God and spiritual matters, discovered through natural seems of nature and philosophy reasoning
Sacred Knowledge
Knowledge that is not sacred
Authority of Scripture (Sola Scripture)
Matthew 1 23 John 10 30 John 1 18 Colossians 9 10 John 10 33 John 5 18 John 1 1 John 8 57 58
Can there be faith without learning?
No
Justification by faith alone
One of the 5 Solas-only saved by our faith
A worldview is going to answer what is ________
Real
Faith
Seeing and behaving with a biblical view or reality and human nature. Faith is as much acting in accordance with what we see as with what we cannot see
Scripture Alone (Sola Scriptura)
The formal principle of the reformation, only scripture because it is Gods inspired word, and speaks what is true. Timothy 3:16-17, scripture is the basis for our faith of or according to the teaching of Jesus Christ-evangelical.
Special Revelation
The knowledge God gives us through the bible and the person of Jesus Christ
Triage
The sorting if patients according to their need of care
Dogma
Those truths for which we are so nearly certain that we may bundle them into a creed, rather than keep debating them
A belief is going to answer what is _______
True
Subjective Truth
True because I say it is
Objective Truth
True without a thought
Post modern
Views based on us
Grace Alone (Sola Gratia)
We did not earn to be saved. He gave us the gift of salvation. Full gift from God. he doesn't need us he wanted us.
How do we know the bible is true?
We know it is trustworthy because it says so
Theological triage
What is essential to primary faith
By Faith Alone (Sola Fide)
You are saved from faith alone
Orthodoxy
Aligning with scripture
A behavior is going to answer what is _________
Done
Homousians
like/same substance: not separable