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Govt 200 Exam 4 study notes 1. Word view Sire: Commitment of the heart, from set presuppositions that we hold about the basic constitution of reality and provides the foundation of which we live, move and have our being. Shaffer: Basic grid through which we view the world based on our presuppositions. A Worldview is a philosophy of life which attempt to address and answer the grand questions of life to direct man. 2. What are the four characteristics of worldviews? Address larger question Universal in application Lasting and livable answers Factual adequate Generates explanatory power. 3. Be able to identify the levels of application of a worldview. Abstraction: Conceptualization, invent framework that answers questions former of new worldview. (Luther, Darwin, Marx) ( At what level of worldview application would philosophical thinkers like Charles Darwin or Marx exists?) Applicable: Further formulation and application disciples of abstractors. (John Locke, Lenin, Hitler) Sociological: Refers to critical thinking level of application. Where intellectuals expand presuppositions and concepts. Eclectic/ level of selection: Individuals choose from prevailing worldviews, promote and teach, academia, Teachers, professors. (Transmission) Level of selection refers to the key intellectual thinkers choose from various worldviews to teach from. Conglomerate: General Acceptance (Representation of the majority, as most people fail to reflect intentionally upon what they believe, instead of thinking about various perspectives. 4. When considering the application of worldviews, what is meant by each level, such as Abstraction, Application, Eclectic, Conglomerate? 5. Why Shifts in worldview occur: Former worldview was: Unachievable Impractical Unlivable Inadequate to address pressures of life (doesn’t work with reality) Bridges Metaphor (Francis Schaefer) Worldview is like Bridges collapse hen the foundation is not strong enough to take the weight of reality.
Chapter 15 No business exists in isolation. There are all connected and they affect each other. “Production for use not for profit” Prices are not determined by the costs of production: they are determined by supply and demand. Prices are defined by how many people want a product and how much they can and want to pay for it. Everything is produced at the effect of something else — ˃ opportunity cost. Prices show where resources should be allocated and where the production should focus: wherever more wealth can be created, wherever there is more demand. 1. What is the distilled essence of the Biblical Christian Worldview relative to its answers to the four philosophical dilemmas? Biblical Supernatural Ontology: Man and women Created Biblical Revelation Epistemology: Realizing God and his works Kingdom of God Teleology: There is both a physical and spiritual realm. God id the author of both. There is a heaven and a hell. Biblical Theistic Axiology : God is the most valuable Kingdom of God is spiritual. 2. What is the significance of Aurelius Augustine (354-430AD) Bishop of Hippo, in North Africa? Wrote the City of God. 3. Consider the discussion on ‘The Reformation and the Translation of the Scriptures,’ and be prepared to identify the institutional impact of the new protestant approach to biblical interpretation in contrast with Roman Catholicism. The bible is ultimate Authority. Everyone should interpret it themselves and shouldn’t need the church to clarify. 4. What is the significance of the leading French Reformer John Calvin (1509-1564), and what very influential work did he pen which directly addressed a biblical approach to ecclesiastical and civil institutional procedure, in contrast to the approaches instituted by the Roman Catholic Church? He wrote Institutions of Christian Religion. He attempted to reorganize the church/ states relationship.
5. What is the significance of John Wyclif (1320-1384AD)? He Published the Wycliff Bible (translated Bible) In 1384 6. The cultural and institutional consequences of the Reformation are significant not only for European and British history, but for American history as well. What were some of these new relational principles derived from the Scriptures which resulted in new institutional patterns dominant in the American colonies? Civil and religious liberty Limited civil and ecclesiastical government Limited civil jurisdiction 7. The Biblical Christian Worldview embodies a prepositional core, which the reformation asserted. Be able to identify, correctly, the main thrust behind key presuppositions such as ‘the kingdom of God is spiritual,’ ‘sovereignty of God,’ ‘depravity of man,’ the ‘priesthood of all believers,’ and ‘man is prophet, priest, and king under a sovereign God,’ as well as ‘no institutional interposition between God and man.’ We also discussed another presupposition I referred to as the ‘created virtue of man,’ so be able to identify this as well. Man Thrust behind: Indicates he had total authority to rule man supremely. Man operates through prophet priest and king under man. Depravity of man: Man Always sins, we must repent Romans 3:23 Priesthood of all believers: We all have individual connections with God Virtue of Man: We are created of God therefore his virtues are on our hearts a. Rehearse what is meant by the following statements: As Christians we worship God ontologically as Creator. As Christians we worship God epistemologically as acknowledger and revealer. As Christians we worship God axiologically as redeemer. As Christians we worship God teleologically as sustainer, and coming lord and king. 8. What is the significance of the Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)? Lectures on Calvinism 9. Be able to identify the four significant and compelling consequences of the Protestant Reformation. Christ centered Church Renaissance humanism/ relationism/ romanticism derailed. Biblical Christianity: dominant global force Spread Christianity to America Bible in common language, No institutional interposition between God and Man, man is a prophet, Christicentric Church 10. What best represents the institutional arrangement of the Biblical Christian worldview? A covenantal order which is an agreement with God as a third party. What is meant by the phrase ‘covenantal order’? What is a covenant? How are covenants superior to contracts?
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