theology

What are the two fundamental ways to know God?

• b. Reason/Natural Revelation and Faith/Divine Revelation

• • a. Scripture and Tradition

• • c. Science and Math

• • d. Philosophy and Science

how philosophy acts as a bridge between believers and non-believers

• • d. By focusing on divine revelation

  
  

• • d. By focusing on divine revelation

  
  

• by focuing on area of common human experience and principals

• • c. By focusing on Scientific experimentation and observation

According to Plato what makes a thing intelligible (able to be understood)?

• • b. The color of a thing

• d. The form of a thing

• • c. The shape of a thing

• • b. The size of a thing

Plato and Aristotle argued from reason alone ther must be a first cause of all things.

• false

• true

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Aristotle's first cause?

• Perfect

• b. Finite

• Eternal

• One

Correct. is God’s divine life, present in our souls. It allows us to overcome sin and error and strive towards perfect knowledge of God.

• the argument from government

• Divine (supernatural) revelation

• grace

• One

the argument from government

• everything in nature that is possible

• Nothing causes itself to be, everything is caused by another. However, this cannot go back infinitely. There must be a first cause. This first cause is God.

• the universe is filled with regular pattern

• Nothing causes itself to be, everything is caused by another. However, this cannot go back infinitely. There must be a first cause. This first cause is God.

is the study of the systematic structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

• theoglogy

• by focuing on area of common human experience and principals

• science

• philosphy

is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence through human reason.

• theology

• philosophy

• science

• religion

is a particular system of faith and worship involving belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power

• science

• religion

• philosophy

• theology