What is Truth? Quiz 5

Greek Thinking

Polytheistic way (gods were more human-like and interacted with the people)

Greek’s Premise

The universe was logical, rule-governed, and perfect

Geocentrism

Earth-centrism

Aristotle’s (384-322 BC) Worldview

He looked at the universe as being that can be explained using natural (without using the gods) explanation.

Hellenistic Period

323-50 BC

Romans Conquered

Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine (Israel- Destruction of the Temple 70 AD)

Emperor Constantine

Became Christian and the Roman Empire became Christian with him (306-377 AD)

Nestorians

flee Roman Empire as heretics and many moved to Persia (Baghdad)

Mohammed (570-632 AD)

Conquers and unites Arab world - Islam

Battle of Tours

led by Charles “The Hammer” Martel to drive Muslims back down to Northern Spain where the Muslim scholars and European scholars ultimately exchanged ideas (European scholars acquired Greek writings).

1000-1200

Scholars travel from Arabic world to European world, take Aristotle and other Greek and Roman writings

Scholasticism (1200-1500)

a mixing of truths of ancient Greek writings and truths of scripture

Aristotle 384-322 BC

Philosophical Truth - The world was consistent… philosophers could discover the natural laws that the universe obeyed

Aquinas (1225-1274)

Responsible for incorporating the Aristotelian worldview into Judeo-Christian theology, and with it the critical marriage between the truth of nature and revealed or Biblical Truth

Inquisition

sought out heresies

Galileo

backed a theory of astronomer Nicolas Copernicus (Heliocentrism - Sun-centered)

Newton (1642-1727)

English scientist and mathematician

Gravitation

law of universal gravitation explaining the motions of the heavenly bodies

Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Swedish botanist who designed the taxonomic classification system

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

species change due to natural selection