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Apologetics 12/5/24 ​ ◦​ A - Ano - Year ​ ◦​ D - Domini - Lord ​ ◦​ Ano Domini - Year of the Lord ​ ◦​ Jesus was actually born between 4 - 6 AD ​ ◦​ 500BC - 500AD - Classical Times - Greco-Roman ​ ◦​ 400BC ​ ◦​ 300 BC Greek Empire ​...

Apologetics 12/5/24 ​ ◦​ A - Ano - Year ​ ◦​ D - Domini - Lord ​ ◦​ Ano Domini - Year of the Lord ​ ◦​ Jesus was actually born between 4 - 6 AD ​ ◦​ 500BC - 500AD - Classical Times - Greco-Roman ​ ◦​ 400BC ​ ◦​ 300 BC Greek Empire ​ ◦​ 50BC Roman Empire ​ ◦​ 6BC- Jesus Christ ​ ◦​ By 33AD Crucifixion and Resurrection ​ ◦​ 68AD Death of Peter/Paul ​ ◦​ 70AD destruction of Jerusalem July - Julius GoW - Mars Octavious - October Medieval Times 500 AD to 1500 Early Middle Ages ​ ◦​ 500AD - 1300AD ​ ◦​ 1275AD ​ ◦​ Renaissance - Re-surection of classical thinking ​ ◦​ 1300 - 1500 ​ ◦​ & Both of Modern Humanism Me ​ ◦​ Reformation Oct 31, 1517 ​ ◦​ Martin Luther ​ ◦​ Pre-Socratic Philosophers ​ ◦​ This (all is water) Materialism and Determinism ​ ◦​ Heraclitus and Cratylus - Constancy and Change is the first principle of the insiders - if “you cannot step twice into the same river then there must r an Unchanging by which you are measuring all Ramos Change - the physical is always changing (Time), and the non physical is constant - the logos - the permanent uncial framework that makes all this change possible ​ ◦​ Pythagrus  ​ ◦​ Post Modern Times ​ ◦​ Postmodernism = Contradictions are ok ​ ◦​ Cultures are “thought-forms” Universe is understandable And we can know it ​ ◦​ Philosophy = “the Circle of Reality” ​ ◦​ Is one aspect of reality more real than another? ​ ◦​ More important than another? ​ ◦​ If you put a line between Grace and nature then one will eat another ​ ◦​ “GRACE” ​ ◦​ “NATURE” Is there one reality or Two? ​ ◦​ Introduce Schaefer’s Diagram of ​ ◦​ Wisdom means how to apply the truth ​ ◦​ The goddess of victory - Nike of Samothrace 196 BC ​ ◦​ Incarnation, taking on flesh ​ ◦​ The U.S. capital building was inspired by the Pantheon Humanism, Idealism, spiritualism, and Physical, Symmetry, Geometric, LOGIC 12/10 ​ ◦​ Nillism - nothing matters ​ ◦​ Homo Mensura - I am the measure - rationalism, Humanism ​ ◦​ Socrates - Truth & Virtue Exist - Socratic Method - ask questions - because the truth is in you?? ​ ◦​ ​ ◦​ Plato - Ideals ( Forms more real than nature - The Republic, Allegory old the Cave ​ ◦​ Aristotle ​ ◦​ Alexander the Great 12/11 ​ ◦​ Determinism - when there is no decision 12/17 ​ ◦​ In the school of Athens, Plato is pointing up emphasizing the spiritual and Aristotle is pointing down saying that the physical matters too ​ ◦​ Leonardo Davinci - Is there a way to Unify the spiritual and physical? — the UNI-VERSE ​ ◦​ Use the physical to find the non physical ​ ◦​ People tend to put Faith above reasoning ​ ◦​ Man is great and man is messed up 12/19 ​ ◦​ Reformation: Good Comes Down to Man ​ ◦​ Art and the Reformation ​ ◦​ Jesus’s saying: Don’t touch me ​ ◦​ Reformation and Enlightenment ​ ◦​ Hans Holbein “The Ambassadors” 1553. All of reality is Painted…. On the floor of Westminster Abbey ​ ◦​ Rembrandt 1640 - “Belshazzars’ Feast - God Touches Man ​ ◦​ Beauty - is what good and truth look like 12/20 ​ ◦​ Rationalism - I get all of my truth from how I think - you can only trust your mind ​ ◦​ Come now let us reason ​ ◦​ Religious existentialism and Secular existentialism ​ ◦​ Neitzche is the father of post modernism ​ ◦​ Truth is fiction ​ ◦​ Francis Bacon is the father of science 15-1600 ​ ◦​ Galileo god and science are perfectly put together ​ ◦​ Kepler - discovered the laws of planetary motion ​ ◦​ Nobody knows what energy and gravity is, only what it does ​ ◦​ Human reason - “A priori” before experience ​ ◦​ Descartes is the authority ​ ◦​ Auto nomi seeing yourself apart from God ​ ◦​ Rationalism when you think your thinking is the root of all reasoning ​ ◦​ Rembrandt “The Magi” (1600) ​ ◦​ Two books: book of God’s words and book of God’s works 1/6/25 Diagram of the 600 Faith and reason: top and bottom work no line in between ​ ◦​ Luther - 5 solas ​ ◦​ Copernicus ​ ◦​ Francis Bacon ​ ◦​ Galileo - God and Science ​ ◦​ Kepler - law of planetary motion ​ ◦​ John Locke - Empiricism + NO innate ideas ​ ◦​ Rene Des Carter - Doubt what toy see, believe only what you think “Radical Dualism” “Geometry is unique and eternal, a reflection from the minds of God. That mankind shares in it Jacques Louis David - 1787 “Neoclassicism” - Man is Important Notice the “Hand of God” Man is the measure of all things Socrates lived in 450 Bc Classical times Napoleon crossing the Alps  1/7/25 ​ ◦​ It’s an tradition leap of faith when you divide Faith & Reason  ​ ◦​ Voltaire - (Deism) “Candide” of evil exists then a good all powerful God must be an absent watchmaker 1/8/25 ​ ◦​ “Man is a curious accident in the backwater of the universe” - Bertrand Russell ​ ◦​ Art is short for artifist or artifacts Karl Marx’s goals: ​ ◦​ Eliminate Scarcity ​ ◦​ Classes ​ ◦​ Property ​ ◦​ Family ​ ◦​ Sexual Mores ​ ◦​ God ​ ◦​ Negative humanism ​ ◦​ Optimistic humanism ​ ◦​ Nihilism - nothing matters I Mazda a ​ ◦​ Karl Barth and Soren Keierkagaard said that God is Wholly other and we must take a leap of faith ​ ◦​ 1900 - age of destruction - postmodernism ​ ◦​ 1920s Abstract art ​ ◦​ 1930s Humanist Manifesto 1 ​ ◦​ 1940s WW2 Nazi Holocaust ​ ◦​ 1950s Mao and Stalin killed 50 million ​ ◦​ 1960 - 70 Secular Existentialism ​ ◦​ 1970s Humanist Manifesto 2 and abortion in the U.S. ​ ◦​ 80s - shock art ​ ◦​ 90 - 00 - Deconstruction Jacques Derrida 1/9/25 ​ ◦​ Claude Monet & Vincent Van Gough they are impressionists 1/13/25 ​ ◦​ Uranyl called the fountain (“sculpture” ​ ◦​ There is no such thing as meaning so that is anti-matter ​ ◦​ So no such thing as art so anti-beauty ​ ◦​ Dada absurd, nonsensical anarchy ​ ◦​ Dadaism ​ ◦​ When you give something a definition knowing that it has no meaning - absured ​ ◦​ A does not equal A - Post Modernism ​ ◦​ John Dewey father of modern public education 1/14/25  ​ ◦​ Fragmentation ​ ◦​ Salvador Dali: “Persistence of Memory” - Surrealism ​ ◦​ Pablo Picasso: “Three Musicians” - Cubism ​ ◦​ These are examples of abstract art  1/15/25 Aristotle’s Laws of Identity ​ 1.​ It is what it is See​ 2.​ It’s either a or non a or not both ​ 3.​ Law of non contradiction a does not equal non a - Opposite ideas cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense 2 logical tests ​ ​ local consistently - if it fits all the facts - how do you know what the facts are? - direct and indirect detection from 3 sources - the world, yourself, and others ​ ​ Logical Non-Contradiction - the law of noncontradiction ​ ◦​ Logic - orderly way of thinking - think about how you think about what you think. = Opposite ideas and hung ​ ◦​ Attempting to deny the undeniable, when you deny it, you affirm it “I can’t speak English” -“hitting you cannot be the same as not hitting you - is being on fire the same as not being fire- beating and not beating - “thinking is not really possible” - self-defeating - sign not in use - nothing is written in stone in a stone ​ ◦​ Roadrunner tactic is killing themself