1. Rel. Anth.: 11 Sept. 2013
Study for your verse quiz silently, or come orally say the verse quiz to me in the back.

2. Silent Reading
Silently read page 74: Christian Schizophrenia

3. Classical Philosophers
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
The great philosophies of the time when Christianity was being formed

4. Classical Philosophers: Good?
Rational Order to the Universe
Eternal Values of Truth, Beauty and Goodness
Knowledge is
Objective

5. Classical Philosophers: Bad?
Plato:

6. Plato: Good and/or Bad?
Good Bad

7. 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.

8. 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”

9. Augustine:
-Raised a Christian but rebelled.
-Became a Manicheist, then a Platonist.
-Later converted to Christianity.

10. Augustine’s Plato Baggage
-Kept belief of double-creation.
-Dualistic thinking.
-Asceticism
-“Ordinary” work is inferior to metaphysical contemplation

11. Classical Philosophers: Bad?
Aristotle:

12. 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.

13. St. Thomas Aquinas:
-Dominican Monk
-Against the Aristotelian/Xian contradictory view
-Christianized Aristotle.

14. Thomas Aquinas: Improvements
-Natural processes are good.
-God is God and his creation is the work of a good Creator.
-Ends asceticism

15. Thomas Aquinas: 1 Failure
-Like Aristotle, he affirmed the nature of purpose of things is immanent in the world.
-Humans are an exception.

16. Thomas Aquinas: 1 Failure
-Translation: the world is not primarily oriented toward God.
-“Grace” is a supernatural add on, to a naturalistic world.

17. Restored the dignity and value to the “lower-story”
The Reformers: Calvin
Restored the dignity and value to the “lower-story”
Ordinary life is important because it is part of God’s world.

18. Dualism vs. Xian Worldview
Creation:

19. Dualism vs. Xian Worldview
Fall:

20. Dualism vs. Xian Worldview
Redemption:

21. 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

22. 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

23. Homework
-Study for Friday’s assessment. -Continue work on interests paper.