Contemporary Theology Prelim Exam

 Intellectual historians have often said that modern philosophy began with the thought of:

• Immanuel Kant

• René Descartes

• William of Occam

• Noam Chomsky

What did Descartes remove from the center of the philosophical enterprise?

• God

• logic

• ethics

• metaphysics

 Descartes held that the proper starting point for philosophical reflection was:

• God

• that which the human mind could know beyond any doubt

• Kerygma

• Plato’s Republic

 Descartes’s one certain truth, from which his epistemology began, was:

• God’s existence

• God’s revelation

• his own existence

• the tabula rasa

 Descartes spearheaded the philosophical movement known as:

• rationalism

• empiricism

• rational empiricism

• nominalism

Who combined the traditions of rationalism and empiricism?

• Immanuel Kant

• René Descartes

• Bonaventure

• George Berkeley

Kant held that such concepts as causality, disjunction, particularity, and universality are _________ categories.

• false

• empirical

• transcendental

• phenomenal

Kant asserted that he had put an end to:

• reason

• faith

• philosophy

• metaphysics

 Schleiermacher was the founder of:

• Kantian Christianity

• modern liberal theology

• modern eschatology

• systematic theology

Friedrich Schleiermacher’s parents were:

• Roman Catholic

• pietist

• Lutheran

• atheist