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Rel. Anth.: 11 Sept. 2013. Study for your verse quiz silently, or come orally say the verse quiz to me in the back. Silent Reading. Silently read page 74: Christian Schizophrenia. Classical Philosophers. Plato Socrates Aristotle.
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Rel. Anth.: 11 Sept. 2013 Study for your verse quiz silently, or come orally say the verse quiz to me in the back.
Silent Reading Silently read page 74: Christian Schizophrenia
Classical Philosophers Plato Socrates Aristotle The great philosophies of the time when Christianity was being formed
Classical Philosophers: Good? • Rational Order to the Universe • Eternal Values of Truth, Beauty and Goodness • Knowledge is Objective
Classical Philosophers: Bad? Plato:
Plato: Good and/or Bad? GoodBad
Plato: Good and/or Bad? Bad Stuff: • Allegory of the Cave: • The material world is the realm of error • The path to knowledge is to free ourselves from bodily senses to gain insight into the realm of the Forms • Matter/Form are pre-existent • The Creator is only a sculptor.
Plato vs. Christian Worldview • The material world is evil and the source of chaos. • Both matter and form are eternal. • The “flesh” is part of the evil world. • The material world is part of God’s good creation. • Only God is eternal • God came in human “flesh”
Augustine: -Raised a Christian but rebelled. -Became a Manicheist, then a Platonist. -Later converted to Christianity.
Augustine’s Plato Baggage -Kept belief of double-creation. -Dualistic thinking. -Asceticism -“Ordinary” work is inferior to metaphysical contemplation
Classical Philosophers: Bad? Aristotle:
Aristotle: Good and/or Bad? -Comprehensive Philosophy included Ethics, aesthetics, science, & politics -He was so influential that some Christians were both Aristotelians and Christians even if certain things were contradictory.
St. Thomas Aquinas: -Dominican Monk -Against the Aristotelian/Xian contradictory view -Christianized Aristotle.
Thomas Aquinas: Improvements -Natural processes are good. -God is God and his creation is the work of a good Creator. -Ends asceticism
Thomas Aquinas: 1 Failure -Like Aristotle, he affirmed the nature of purpose of things is immanent in the world. -Humans are an exception.
Thomas Aquinas: 1 Failure -Translation: the world is not primarily oriented toward God. -“Grace” is a supernatural add on, to a naturalistic world.
The Reformers: Calvin Restored the dignity and value to the “lower-story” Ordinary life is important because it is part of God’s world.
Dualism vs. Xian Worldview Creation:
Dualism vs. Xian Worldview Redemption:
Christianity out of balance What happens if we over-emphasize any part of the Biblical metanarrative? creation FALL redemption CREATION fall REDEMPTION creation fall REDEMPTION
Study Guide for Fri Assessment • The Faith Gap • Being culturally bilingual • The importance of our interests/gifting/calling in Xian worldview • The good news and the bad news of the survey on pp71-72 • Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine • Dualism and its dangers
Homework -Study for Friday’s assessment. -Continue work on interests paper.