1	How Should We then Live? Key Words and Phrases
2	The Roman Age: Key Word Syncretism/Syncretistic Greek sun + krateo, “grasp together.” Mixing “truths” from different religions Example from film: “Jesus and Caesar” Contemporary Example: New Age Contrast Eclecticism/Eclectic
3	The Roman Age: Key Phrases “The Christians were killed because they were rebels.” (?) “No totalitarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.” “Rome collapsed, not from external pressures, but from internal weaknesses.”
4	The Middle Ages “Area of Non-Reason” = “The Upper Storey” Ambrose—Hymns; Gregory—Chant Romanesque vs. Gothic Theological Issues: Authority, Works Thomas Aquinas Universals and Particulars Autonomy
5	The Renaissance Art—Central Perspective “In the beginning of the Renaissance, it could have gone either way . . . But at a certain point the scales tipped, and man put himself in the center.” Michelangelo’s David: “the personification of the humanist ideal.” “If you start from the finite, no matter how far you project from it, you can never arrive at an absolute—never.”
6	The Reformation Sola Scriptura Sola Gratia Sola Fide Solus Christus Soli Deo Gloria Scripture Alone Grace Alone Faith Alone Christ Alone Glory to God Alone
7	The Reformation “Indulgences” = Pardons Erasmus Greek NT, 1516 Luther’s 95 Theses, 1517 Calvin’s Institutes Bach JJ, “Jesu Juva,” “Jesus, help me.” SDG, “Soli Deo Gloria,” Glory to God alone.”
8	The Revolutionary Age: Key People Samuel Rutherford—Lex Rex John Witherspoon—Christian Founder Thomas Jefferson—Deist/Secular Founder Voltaire—Father of the Enlightenment John Newton—Ex Slave Trader Opposed William Wilberforce—MP Slavery
9	The Revolutionary Age: Key Dates English “Bloodless” Revolution, 1688 American Revolution, 1776 French Revolution, 1789 Russian Revolution, 1917
10	The Revolutionary Age: Key Ideas Freedom and Form Checks and Balances “Reformation Base” Christian Consensus Arbitrary Values Anarchy vs. Repression
11	The Revolutionary Age: Key Ideas Reformation Base > Bloodless & American Revolutions Enlightenment Base > French & Russian Revolutions Two Inconsistencies in Ref. Countries: A Twisted View of Race A Non-Compassionate Use of Accumulated Wealth
12	The Scientific Age: Key People Galileo, 16^th c.—Heliocentric; Copernican Revolution; “It still moves!” Pascal, 17^th c—Barometer, Pensees Francis Bacon, 17th c.—Novum Organum, Essays, The Art of Learning: ”The books of God’s Word/works.” Isaac Newton, 18^th c.—Gravity, Principia Mathematica
13	The Scientific Age: Key People Charles Darwin, 19^th c.—Evolution, The Origin of the Species Einstein, 20^th c.—Relativity; “I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.” Murray Eden, 20^th c.—Mathematical Challenges to Neo-Darwinism B. F. Skinner, 20^th c.—Behaviorism, Walden Two, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
14	The Scientific Age: Key Ideas Doctrine of Creation = Basis of Science “The Uniformity of Natural Causes in an Open/Closed System” Evolution; Natural Selection; Survival of the Fittest. “Sociological Law”—based on what some group thinks is good for society.
15	The Scientific Age: Key Ideas “Who will control the controllers?” Man as a Machine “If Man is only a conditioned machine, then what is the value of the continuation of mankind?”
16	The Age of Non-Reason: Key People and Ideas Jean Jacques Rousseau The Noble Savage—Absolute Freedom, “The Bohemian Ideal” Paul Gauguin Tahiti—Search for the Noble Savage Marquis de Sade “If Nature is god, whatever is, is right.”
17	The Age of Non-Reason: Key People and Ideas Jean Paul Sartre “Act of the Will”—Algerian Manifesto Karl Jaspers “Final Experience” Aldous Huxley Drugs as Way to find Meaning Religious Liberalism
18	The Age of Fragmentation “In great art, technique is united with world view.” – F.A.S. Not all Abstraction is Evil But Schaeffer is right: Techniques of Abstraction (“Fragmentation”) did make modern art a vehicle for the Modern World View “The opposite of Fragmentation = Unity.”
19	The Age of Fragmentation Cezanne—Reduced Nature to its Basic Geometric Forms Picasso—”Les Damoselles D’Avignon”—”Modern Art is born.” DaDa—Carried Fragmentation to its logical conclusion. Marcel DuChamp—”Nude Descending a Staircase”
20	The Age of Fragmentation Jackson Pollack—All is Chance. Claude DeBussy—”Opened the door to Modern Music.” Schoenberg—12-tone row (non-resolution) John Cage—”Sixty Seconds”—Mushrooms T. S. Eliot—”The Wasteland”
21	The Age of Personal Peace and Affluence Personal Peace: “Left alone . . . Lifestyle undisturbed” Affluence: “Things . . . Success defined as a multitude of things.” Two Hippie Attempts to Escape these Values: Drug Scene . . . New Left. Woodstock, 1969: Height of the Drug Culture
22	The Age of Personal Peace and Affluence Abortion . . . Jan. 1973 . . . Roe v. Wade Life begins at Conception. Hedonism: Pleasure as the greatest Good; “Everybody doing his own thing.” “If there is no absolute by which to judge Society, Society is absolute.”
23	Final Choices Manipulative Authoritarian Elite Genetic Engineering Government Media Humanism has no answers for: The Existence of the Universe Its Form The Uniqueness of Man
24	Final Choices “Christianity cannot be accepted as a means to an end . . . As a superior utilitarianism.” “And this is our hope”: The Bible as True God as Real Christ as Lord