1.______________is a skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, that is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth claims are political power plays.
A) Postmodernism
2. Modernism is the common name given to the period of time from the 1700’s to the 1900’s in which assumptions about Christianity in the West.
A) True
3. ____________ is a broad term used to describe a range of arts, attitudes, philosophies, and cultural moods that emerged following the 18th century enlightenment. It is characterized by a strong belief in rationalism, empiricism, science, and technological progress as well as skepticism toward the supernatural, special revelation, and the authority of religion.
A) Modernism
4. The problem according to Postmodernism, is each worldview’s claim to offer unbiased truth about the world.
A) True
5. ___________ says no one can have unmediated, direct, or immediate access to reality.
A) Postmodernism
6. Nihilism is the view that the world and human existence are with meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth or essential value.
A) False
7. Sophism is a pre-Socratic school of philosophy that taught the art of jujitsu and held skeptical views of truth, knowledge, and mortality.
A) False
8. ___________ attempted to enthrone humanity in his place, but everything important was slaughtered along with God.
A) Modernism
9. Postmodernism ________ the truth claims of other worldviews by focusing on how language is used to create and maintain the structures of society.
A) Dismisses
10. Structuralism is a movement that philosophers created in the early ______.
A) 1900’s