Worldview Intensive Midterm Terms/Definitions

4 core worldview questions

What is our nature? What is our world? What is our problem? What is our end?

ACN definition of worldview

the conceptual lens through which we see, understand, and interpret the world in which we live

Matt’s definition of worldview

what one believes about central questions of life that affect the way you liveand interact with others.

3 worldview buckets

theism, atheism, pantheism

theism

God exists (LDS, Christianity, Harry Potter)

atheism

no God (naturalism, agnosticism, Dead Poet’s Society)

pantheism

everything is God (Hinduism, New Age, Star Wars)

Worldview conservatism

worldviews are closely held and difficult to change

2 ways worldview can change

adjustment, conversion

worldview adjustment

changing secondary/tertiary beliefs while staying in the “same” wordview

worldview conversion

giving up primary beliefs to move from one worldview to another

3 branches of philosophy

metaphysics, epistemology, ethics

metaphysics definition

study of reality

epistemology definition

study of knowledge

ethics definition

study of right/wrong

types of knowledge

propositional (statement), by acquaintance (relational), know/how (skill)

Goal of worldview analysis

3 worldview tests that are independent of any of the worldviews

objective truth

a statement that’s true independent of anyone’s belief about it

subjective truth

a statement that’s true dependent on someone’s belief about it

ethical relativism

ethics are subjective

ethical objectivism

ethics are objective

3 elements in a train of reasoning

facts, intuition, logic

2 types of facts

from experience (3 senses), of authority

3 theories of truth

correspondance, coherence, pragmatic

correspondence theory of truth

a statement is true if it corresponds to reality and false if it doesn’t

coherence theory of truth

a statement is true if it’s consistent with other statements one holds, but false if it does not

contradiction

a statement and the statement’s negation

law of non-contradictions

statements s and not s cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense

self-evident statement

1 statement, always true

self-defeating statement

1 statement, always false

consistent statements

both can be true or both can be false

inconsistent statements

one can be true or both can be false

necessary conditions

if A is necessary for B, then one but have A in order to have B

sufficient conditions

if A is sufficient for B, then having A guarantees having B

Pragmatic view of truth

what works is true

3 worldview tests

internal consistency, external consistency, existential consistency

internal consistency theory of truth

a worldview must be consistent with itself

law of excluded middle

a statement is either true or false, there’s no middle way

law of identity

something is identical to itself and different from anything else

external consistency theory

sets the worldview alongside reality

existential consistency theory

worldview must make sense of life

general revelation

what’s revealed about God and his created order to all people, at all times, in all places, i.e. through nature and reason

special revelation

what’s revealed about God and his created order to a specific people at a specific time in a specific place i.e. through scripture

cosmological argument for God’s existence

if the universe has a beginning, the universe has a cause. The universe has a beginning. Therefore, the universe has a cause.

moral argument for God’s existence

the moral law requires a moral lawgiver

natural law

general revelation applied to humanity

ACN’s take on the inerrancy of scripture

“the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”

3 steps in studying scripture

what does the text say? what does the text mean? what do I do with the text?

metanarrative

big story

the original goodness of creation means all of it is

redeemable

created things, since they come from the wisdom of God, are also

purposive and intelligible

God affirms the goodness of

work and marriage

cultural mandate

filling and forming- Gen 1, Gen 3, Ps 8

Great commission

Matt 28

types of goods

instrumental goods, weak ultimate goods, strong ultimate goods

instrumental goods

good only for the sake of something else ($, chemo)

weak ultimate goods

good for the sake of something else and its own sake (education, job)

strong ultimate goods

good only for its own sake (God)

3 types of God’s will

sovereign, moral, specific

shalom

total flourishing, delight, wholeness; the way things are supposed to be

end-directed

evaluating something by figuring out what it’s for

discipline of celebration

intentionally delighting in God and his good gifts

Evil

any spoiling of Shalom

sin

evil for which someone is to blamerel

relationship between sin and evil

all sin is evil, not all evil is sin

evil is secondary

it needs goodness to exist

perversion

turning God’s gifts away from their intended purpose

Pollution

joins together what God separated

Redemption

the stage between Christ’s first and second coming, when all aspects of creation are being restored

glorification

begins at Christ’s second-coming, when all aspects of creation will be fully restored

mortal

beginning and endi

immortal

beginning no end

eternal

no beginning no end

LDS view of God’s nature

as man is, God once was. As God is, man may be

modalism

1 being that takes the form of 3 persons at 3 separate times

arianism

son and spirit made by the Father

partialism

1/3 of each

2 types of is used in trinity language

essential predication and of identity

omnipotent

God is all-powerful, insofar as it does not contradict his nature

omniscient

God knows all knowable things

knowledge

justified, true belief

transcendent

beyond the physical universe

immanent

right here with us