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level questions: Level 1of Wright

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What is a worldview?A set of assumptions that uses story and symbols to answer basic questions such as who are we? Or what is wrong with the world?
What does Wright believe writing off the Christian beliefs of Jesus is?Uncritically accepting an enlightenment view of the world
What does Wright encourage us to do?Start to examine our worldview by answering questions such as "who are we?", "why are we here?"
what else is the enlightenment worldview known as?naive realism
What is the enlightenment world view?A European intellectual movement emphasising reason over religious revelation and the superstition as the basis of knowledge
What is the worldview we find in the New Testament?A worldview where history, faith, politics and spirituality are not separated from one another.
What does phenomenalism mean?the doctrine that human knowledge is confined to or founded on the realities or appearances presented to the senses.
What are one of the reasons why we should question this world view?the reaction of phenomenalism
What is critical realism?things can be known outside of ourselves, though this knowledge is always filtered by our own point of view
What does the new testament present?presents a worldview which is compelling: Jesus presents history as having meaning and purpose.
What did Jesus do according to Wright?Jesus reinterpreted ‘Messiah’ in a striking way to include a rejection of violence and the theme of a sacrificial death
How do we know Jesus was significant according to Wright?The fact that the Jesus movement survived is itself evidence of the truth of Christian belief since movements of other ‘failed messiahs’ disbanded.
What type of Messiah was Jesus?A messiah who gave his life
A Key quote from Wright?“History, then, prevents faith from becoming fantasy. Faith prevents history becoming mere antiquarianism”