Faith and Reason - FINAL

  • Identify the differences between Restrictivism, Universalism, and Inclusivism

  • Identify proponents of Restrictivism, Universalism, Inclusivism

  • The Problem of Evil definition

  • Strengths and weaknesses of Problem of Evil theodicies 

  • William Lane Craig’s Argument from Personal Experience

  • How do Christian Theists, Muslims, Naturalists and Deists answer the seven worldview questions?

  • What is Pascal’s Wager?

  • How and when should Pascal’s Wager be used?

  • What are the main contributions of the hard Postmodern thinkers (i.e. Foucault, Derrida, Rorty, Lyotard)?

  • What is the difference between hard and soft Postmodern thinkers?

  • Who are the four Horsemen of Neo-Atheism?

  • What are the differences between warm and cold Deists?

  • Neurotheologian Andrew Newberg’s view of how our beliefs about God affect our brain

  • Common-enemy vs. common-humanity approach to cultural engagement

  • Highlights of Blaise Pascal’s upbringing

  • Pascal’s view on Truth and human responsibility to pursue it

  • Examples of existentially peripheral and existentially central topics

  • What are the biggest challenges to Christian Theism, Deism, Existentialism, Nihilism, and Naturalism?

  • Jeffrey Schwartz’s four steps to rewiring the brain

  • William Lane Craig’s five apologetic arguments

  • The four categories of apologetic arguments

  • What is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and its main features?

  • Be familiar with C.S. Lewis’s Trilemma and Peter Kreeft’s reformulation

  • Which Christian apologetic argument does Christopher Hitchens and the other new atheists find most challenging to refute?

  • For a worldview to be viable, it must be 1) comprehensive, 2) coherent, and
    3) livable

  • Similarities and differences between Modern and Postmodern thinking according to Stanley Grenz

  • Examples of soft postmodern thinkers

  • Brian McLaren’s weak-benevolent, strong-hostile, and strong-benevolent models of engagement

  • McLaren’s view of Christian-Muslim relations

  • McLaren’s view of the Modern-to-Postmodern shift

  • Francis Schaeffer’s view of Postmodern thinking

  • What’s the difference between Moral Fideism and Moral Reliabilism?

  • Tina Fey’s four rules of Improv