Natural Theology OCR

Who famously created the design argument?

• William Shakespeare

• William Paley

• William Penn

What is another name for the design argument?

• Cosmological

• Ontological

• Teleological

What does the writer in Psalms see to find evidence for the existence of God?

• sunshine

• mountain range

• the night sky

• the sea

Who suggests that human reason and powers of observation provide us with solid ground for supporting the probability of God?

• St Paul

• William Paley

• Richard Swinburne

• Cicero

Which Roman philosopher argued that people across time, cultures and history have an innate sense of the divine, an infinite being in control of the universe?

• Plato

• Socrate

• Cicero

• Aristotle

Which C16th Protestant theologian wrote, 'there is within the mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity.'?

• John Hick

• Karl Barth

• Karl Rahner

• John Calvin

What did John Calvin call this natural sense of divinity?

• sense divided

• sensus divinitas

• sense divinitas

• sensus divided

Who did John Calvin believe had access to this sensus divinitas (seed of divinity)?

• All Christians

• Only Protestants

• Everyone

• Only Catholics

Aquinas' ideas on natural theology wanted to do what?

• show reason and observation could work with Christian belief

• show reason and observation would not work with Christian belief

• deny reason and observation for Christian ideas

John Calvin argued that the created world is a what for God, who sometime increases the capacity of awareness for his presence?

• shade

• blind

• barrier

• theatre