Christian Ethics Midterm Walker- Questions with
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The doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain
attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the
kind of thing the universe is and the kind of things we
are.
Because our approvals and disapproval are thus
recognition's of objective values or responses to an
What is the Tao? How
objective order, therefore emotional states can be in
does it relate to Lewis'
harmony with reason.
argument that modern
education creates "men
In the Green Book the very possibility of sentiment
without chests?"
being reasonable or even unreasonable has been
excluded from the onset.
The reference to something beyond the emotion is
excluded from every sentence. Thus, men without
chests. The heart never takes the place of the head;
but it can and should obey it.
, Worldview is defined as the underlying assumptions
to how a person interprets reality and then acts
Please explain how the
according to that understanding.
context of worldview
relates to ethics and how
Ethics reveals worldview: how we chose to live
ethics function in the
reflects what we actually believe
development of one's
worldview. Lecture 5?
What we live for and invest in shapes what we believe
and how we live reflects what it is we truly believe
Please explain the Descriptive task: What is happening in a situation
difference between
Christian ethics being a Prescriptive task: What ought to be happening? What
descriptive task versus a should we do?
prescriptive task.
Jesus Centered
Spirit Enabled - indicative and imperative: we have -
now we do
Love directed - pursue what is true
World is love so we affirm
How does the gospel of
Jesus Christ relate to
Scripture love rejoices in truth
Christian ethics?
Oriented to justice
It is creational - (From David; Creational meaning, Not
"sectarian", Creation itself testifies to the moral law in
the universe. Our Ethics are not only for our "sect" or
"religious group"
It is objective it is really there, true, and binding
, Scripture
Reason
Tradition
Experience
The problem is that these are all about authority and
the sources of authority. The WQ opens the door to
placing something other than Scripture as our
authority or even informing a wrong understanding of
Scripture.
From David, found in lecture 6:
Please explain the idea of Four quadrants:
the Wesleyan Reason - personal reflection
Quadrilateral and its Tradition - historical / political structures
problems for developing Experience - interactions w/ the world. (most people
an evangelical ethic. form their authority structures here) "You do you."
"Live your Truth".
Scripture
The problem with the WQ is that most people form
their authority structures from experience, the "live
your truth" mentality. The WQ undermines Scripture's
authority by including Reason, Tradition, and
Experience as sources of authority. But, Sola Scripture
teaches that "Scripture is the Norming Norm that
Norms all other Norms." It interprets all other sources
of authority and life.
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Terms in this set (29)
The doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain
attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the
kind of thing the universe is and the kind of things we
are.
Because our approvals and disapproval are thus
recognition's of objective values or responses to an
What is the Tao? How
objective order, therefore emotional states can be in
does it relate to Lewis'
harmony with reason.
argument that modern
education creates "men
In the Green Book the very possibility of sentiment
without chests?"
being reasonable or even unreasonable has been
excluded from the onset.
The reference to something beyond the emotion is
excluded from every sentence. Thus, men without
chests. The heart never takes the place of the head;
but it can and should obey it.
, Worldview is defined as the underlying assumptions
to how a person interprets reality and then acts
Please explain how the
according to that understanding.
context of worldview
relates to ethics and how
Ethics reveals worldview: how we chose to live
ethics function in the
reflects what we actually believe
development of one's
worldview. Lecture 5?
What we live for and invest in shapes what we believe
and how we live reflects what it is we truly believe
Please explain the Descriptive task: What is happening in a situation
difference between
Christian ethics being a Prescriptive task: What ought to be happening? What
descriptive task versus a should we do?
prescriptive task.
Jesus Centered
Spirit Enabled - indicative and imperative: we have -
now we do
Love directed - pursue what is true
World is love so we affirm
How does the gospel of
Jesus Christ relate to
Scripture love rejoices in truth
Christian ethics?
Oriented to justice
It is creational - (From David; Creational meaning, Not
"sectarian", Creation itself testifies to the moral law in
the universe. Our Ethics are not only for our "sect" or
"religious group"
It is objective it is really there, true, and binding
, Scripture
Reason
Tradition
Experience
The problem is that these are all about authority and
the sources of authority. The WQ opens the door to
placing something other than Scripture as our
authority or even informing a wrong understanding of
Scripture.
From David, found in lecture 6:
Please explain the idea of Four quadrants:
the Wesleyan Reason - personal reflection
Quadrilateral and its Tradition - historical / political structures
problems for developing Experience - interactions w/ the world. (most people
an evangelical ethic. form their authority structures here) "You do you."
"Live your Truth".
Scripture
The problem with the WQ is that most people form
their authority structures from experience, the "live
your truth" mentality. The WQ undermines Scripture's
authority by including Reason, Tradition, and
Experience as sources of authority. But, Sola Scripture
teaches that "Scripture is the Norming Norm that
Norms all other Norms." It interprets all other sources
of authority and life.
