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IDS EXAM #1
Theism, Deism, Existentialism, Nihilism, Naturalism, etc.
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Undergraduate 1
05/14/2011

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Carl Sagan
Definition

  • universe= all there is, was, or ever will be
  • cosmos, PBS
  • secular humanism
  • contact

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Stephen Hawking
Definition

  • Secular Humanism/Deism
  • "A Brief History of Time"

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Richard Dawkins
Definition

  • Secular Humanist
  • "The God Delusion"
  • "Climbing Mount Improbable"
  • "The Blind Watchmaker"

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Stoicism
Definition

  • cyclical
  • Acts 17

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Thomas Paine
Definition

  • Deism
  • "The Age of Reason"

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Babylonians
Definition

  • warrior
  • polytheistic

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Babylonian Worldview
Definition

  • fighting gods
  • polytheism
  • elevation of city or race (warriors)

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David Naugle
Definition

  • "Worldview: The History of a Concept"
  • helps Sire change his definition of worldview
  • Christian Theism

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James Sire
Definition

  • "The Universe Next Door"
  • Christian Theism

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Paul
Definition

  • Acts 17
  • Paul talks to the Stoics and Epicureans

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Daniel
Definition
does not eat the royal food and wine
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Theism
Definition
Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
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John 1
Definition

  • The Word
  • Transcendence and immanence

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A Christian mind takes every "-------" captive. 
Definition
thought
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A Christian mind isn't taken "-------" by non-Christian beliefs.
Definition
captive
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A Christian mind "-------" a worldly mind.
Definition
opposes
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open system
Definition
God is free to intervene.
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creed
Definition
belief
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ex nihilo
Definition

  • "from nothing"
  • God made us ex nihilo

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pantheism
Definition
everything is god
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incarnate
Definition
in flesh
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trinity
Definition

  • 3 in 1
  • Father, Son, Holy Spirit

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Monism
Definition
everything is one, therefore everything is god 
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ambiguous gestalt
Definition
more than one correct interpretation
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indefinite gestalt
Definition
only one interpretation is possible correct
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weltanschauung
Definition

  • worldview
  • "world perception"

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Moses
Definition

  • Exodus
  • Worldview encounter with Pharoah

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reductionism
Definition
all that you are is your component parts (degraded to simple science)
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epistemology
Definition
study of knowledge; how we know what we know
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Egyptian Worldview
Definition

  • Moses
  • Exodus 20
  • Worldview Encounter Plagues
  • good deeds

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Alexander Pope
Definition

  • "Essay on Man"
  • Deism
  • "Whatever is, is right."

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Using our minds is "--------."
Definition
required
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A "-----------" mind is necessary for worship and service
Definition
transformed
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A Christian mind is "--------" around Christ.
Definition
centered
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Epicureanism 
Definition

  • pleasure principle/self-satisfaction/do what feels good
  • no afterlife
  • no god
  • eternal universe (no creation)
  • Paul, Acts 17 in Athens

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Peter Singer
Definition

  • Secular Humanism
  • beastiality
  • Professor of Bioethics at Princeton
  • "we are animals"

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Thomas Jefferson
Definition

  • Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Deism

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Marxism
Definition

  • Karl Marx
  • naturalistic
  • atheistic

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Moral Therapeutic Deism
Definition

  • do what makes you happy
  • pray to God to solve your problems

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Nationalism
Definition
extreme devotion to one's country
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Secular Humanism
Definition

  • no god
  • scientific naturalism
  • we must save ourselves

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Deism
Definition

  • God is uninvolved 
  • closed system
  • no special revelation

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Christian Theism
Definition

  • believes in God and Jesus
  • open system
  • special revelation and natural revelation

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consumerism
Definition

  • more than needed
  • never enough
  • defines values
  • material things bring happiness and safety
  • salvation in stuff

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Bill Maher
Definition

  • Secular Humanist
  • "Religulous"

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Nancy Pearcey
Definition

  • Christian Theist
  • "Total Truth"

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Karl Marx
Definition

  • Secular Humanist
  • Marxism (atheistic)

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Elijah
Definition

  • sacrifices
  • up against the Prophets of Baal

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Paul Kurtz
Definition

  • founder and chairman for Secular Humanism
  • Editor of Free Inquiry
  • "Secular Humanist Declaration Manifesto 2000"

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Sire's changed definition of Worldview
Definition

  • focus on heart
  • commitment
  • as a story (not propositional; think parables)
  • foundation on which we live

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Naturalism
Definition

  • cause and effect
  • all things can be explained through nature
  • no god
  • nature is all there is
  • broad category --> secular humanism, nihilism, existentialism

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4 passages of scripture important for Worldview thinking
Definition

  • Romans 8:7 - mind on the Spirit, not the world
  • Mark 12:30 - love God with your heart, soul, mind, strength
  • Romans 12:12 - transform and renew your mind
  • 2 Corinthians 10:5 - take every thought captive

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Christian Smith
Definition

 

  • Christian Theist
  • "Soul Searching" (about Moral Therapeutic Deism)

 

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cosmology
Definition
study of the universe
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ontology
Definition
prime reality; study of being
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anthropology
Definition
study of humanity
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linear (history)
Definition

  • linear progression of history (world doesn't start over or repeat)
  • has a beginning and a direction/goal

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Ted Turner
Definition

  • Secular Humanist
  • head of CNN
  • "Christians are losers"

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immanence
Definition

  • coexistence
  • unified/same thing
  • Emanuel - "God with us"
  • imminent = close

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transcendence
Definition
above, beyond
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shema
Definition

  • Deut. 6:5
  • Hebrew Prayer
  • "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One."

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polytheism
Definition
belief in more than one god
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special revelation
Definition

 

  • specific
  • examples: Scripture, miracles, prophecies, leading of the Holy Spirit

 

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natural revelation
Definition

 

  • can be seen by anyone
  • examples: what we see in nature, reason

 

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John Loftus
Definition

  • Secular Humanist/Atheist
  • Graduate of LCU
  • "Why I Became an Atheist"

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Michael Shermer
Definition
"Skeptics Society" (magazine and club)
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