What is philosophy?
The study of questions organized around three fundamental categories: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Axiology.
What is metaphysics?
Questions about the nature of reality under the sub-categories:
Cosmology,
Theology,
Anthropology, and,
Ontology.
What is Epistemology?
Questions about truth and knowledge, studied under
the nature of knowledge
The sources of knowledge, (the 5 senses, intuition, revelation, authority, reason) and,
The validity of knowledge
What is Axiology?
Questions about what is of value to persons or to society, studied under two main headings – ethics and aesthetics.
Arguments may be considered to be?
Teleological
Ontological
What is teleological?
To do with purpose
What is ontological?
To do with the nature of existence, what we mean when we say something is.
Way to describe theology?
- The activity where we examine our religious beliefs and seek to express them in a logical way
How are religious communities founded?
Upon beliefs
What do beliefs do?
Direct, dictate and determine the behavior/lifestyle of adherents
What are religious beliefs?
The convictions and expressions of common experiences of members of that religious community.
BASED ON HERITAGE/EXPERIENCES
What does theology mean?
Greek ‘‘theos’‘=God
‘‘logos’‘=speech/word
God talk=Talking about God
The science of the study of God/things about God.
What’s the theology and religious experience?
Experience of God will affect beliefs about God
Beliefs of God are expressed in doctrines
Experience affects doctrine and doctrine affects experience
What is the doctrine of God
Theology
What is the doctrine of Man
Anthropology
What is the doctrine of Salvation
Soteriology
What is the doctrine of Last Things
Eschatology
What is the doctrine of the Church
Ecclesiology
What are the 6 Major theological topics?
- Doctrine of Revelation
- Doctrine of the Church
- Doctrine of Last Things
- Doctrine of Salvation
- Doctrine of God
- Doctrine of Man
What is the scripture for this chapter about God?
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God” (Psalm 14:1).
What are the five philosophical arguments for the existence of God?
- Ontological argument
- Cosmological argument
- Teleological argument
- Moral argument
- Tautological argument[Historical/Ethnological]
What are the other definitions for the 5 philosophical arguments of God
- REASON
- DESIGN
- ORDER
- MORALITY
- RELIGION
What is the Historical/ Ethnological / tautological Argument?
Among all peoples and tribes of the earth there is a sense of the divine which reveals itself in an external cultus ( variety of religious worship).
What is the moral argument?
If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist, but objective moral values exist, good or bad, right and wrong do exist, therefore God does exist.
