GEN 377 midterm

Weltanshauung

Worldview

Four Needs of a Worldview (Holmes)

unify thought and life, define the good life and find hope and meaning in life, guide thought, guide action

Noetic Structure

everything that a person believes

Definition of Worldview

the sum total of answers one give to life's most basic questions

Worldview "Tests"

Should be: Rational, Observable, Livable, Explainable

Components of a Worldview

Theology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Axiology, Anthropology

thoughts

mental acts

convictions

core beliefs that dictate our actions

opinions

speculative religious beliefs may or may not be true

doctrines

religious beliefs historically taken to be authoritative

dogma

fundamental, non-negotiable religious beliefs

metaphysics

what is real

epistemology

what is true/knowledge

axiology

what is valuable

anthropology

view on human nature and purpose

ontology

the study of being

axiology variables

love, meaning, purpose, ethics/morality, aesthetics

valid means of knowing

reason, empiricism, intuition, revelation

two 'ways'

via positiva and negativa

two 'more ways'

explicit and implicit knowledge

defintions of knowledge

justified and warranted true belief

General revelation

creation and conscience

special revelation

redemptive history, divine speech, scripture, Jesus

laws of logic

identity, excluded middle, noncontradiction

Theism

infinite, perfect God exists beyond and in the universe

naturalism

no G/god exists beyond or in the universe

pantheism

an impersonal "perfect" God that is the universe

deism

a personal, imperfect G/god exists beyond and not in the universe

panentheism

a bipolar, perfecting, personal God exists in and not beyond the universe

finite Godism

a finite, imperfect God exists beyond and in the universe

polytheism

finite, imperfect personal gods exists in and not beyond the universe