Natural Theology- Knowledge of God's existence

What is meant by the term natural theology?

• The idea that God is directly revealed to humanity

• The idea that God is indirectly revealed to humanity

• A theory that claims that the natural world provides a point of contact between ourselves and God which tells us something of his nature.

• A theory that claims that the natural world provides a point of contact between ourselves, wisdom and God which tells us something of his nature.

What did Calvin mean by the term Sensus Divinitas?

• A Latin phrase meaning 'sense of God' or sense of the Divine

• The seed of life

• The idea that God is directly revealed to us

• The idea that God can be found everywhere in society.

How does the Sensus Divinitas relate to natural theology?

• It's the idea that we all have the seed of religion imprinted onto our consciousness and will carry our religious practices

• Because it shows that God is directly revealed to us

• It shows that we have an indirect concept of right and wrong

• It shows that God is impermanent

What argument for the existence of God can be an example of natural theology because it suggests that the order in the world shows indirect divine inspiration?

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Who compared the universe to a pocket watch to illustrate the point that the universe is more intricate than a pocket watch, so therefore also needs a designer.

• Calvin

• Barth

• Aquinas

• Paley

What ethical theory can also be associated with natural knowledge of God's existence? It argues that humans an an inbuilt sense of rational thinking and have an awareness of God

• Utilitarianism

• Natural Law

• Kantian ethics

• Situational ethics

Bonaventura used the analogy of the eye to argue that we need different interpretations to be able to obtain knowledge of God's existence. Tick all of the types of 'eyes' that he came up with in his analogy?

• Eye of flesh

• Eye of morality

• Eye of reason

• Eye of contemplation