Worldviews chapter 3
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eaglesdancer on January 18, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 epistemology | the study of knowledge |
| special revelation | an example would be the Bible |
| revelation | God's disclosure of himself |
| general revelation | an example would be nature |
| autonomy of human reason | there is no need revelation from outside to have knowlegde - no scripture, no messages from God via living prophets or dreams and visions |
| panentheism | the universe is in God; God is in the mind of the universe |
| pantheism | the universe is God; everything is God |
| Milton | wrote Paradise Lost |
| Diderot | "A deist is one who hasn't lived long enough to become an atheist." |
| Christian Smith | conducted a study of teens and concluded that most were moralistic therapeutic deists |
| Franklin | thought God should be worshipped |
| locke | warm deist |
| Voltaire | cold deist |
| science - in it's classical meaning | knowledge |
| pluralism | where a competing number of worldviews exist, but none are dominant |
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