Middle Ages Philosophy

At the centre of the reflections of philosophers of the Middle Ages is:

• a) nature

• b) personality

• c) God

• d) ideal world

The most important branch of knowledge in the Middle Ages

• a) philosophy

• b) theology

• c) logic

• d) mathematics

The theory of God's justification for the evil he allows in the world is called

• a) tendency;

• b) theocracy

• c) theogony

• d) theodicy

What is eschatology?

• a) doctrine of the end of the world

• b) doctrine of the end of the man

• c) doctrine of the end of the cosmos

• d) doctrine of the beginning of the world

What does exegetics teach?

• a) interpretation of sacred texts

• b) interpretation of nature

• c) interpretation of Plato's works

• d) interpretation of the sophists

What is monotheism?

• a) recognition of Plato and Plotinus

• b) recognition of science

• c) recognition of multiple Gods

• d) recognition of one God

Theocentrism is ...

• a) recognition of God as the source of being, goodness and beauty

• b) recognition of philosophy as the source of being

• c) recognition of the sophists as goodness and beauty

• d) recognition of a man and a woman as the source of being

How can you explain what creationism is?

• a) recognising God as the sole creator of nature

• b) recognising a miracle as everything in the world

• c) recognising God as the sole creator of everything in the world

• d) recognising cosmos and planets as creators of everything in the world

Providentialism is focused on...

• a) the only will and providence of God

• b) the will and providence people

• c) the forseeing future

• d) the only will and providence of the emperor

Proof of the existence of God was in Middle Ages one the most...

• a) difficult problems

• b) important theodicy

• c) crucial parts of eschatology

• d) important idea of Plato