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WorksheetsOCR A level Knowledge of God
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
This is a type of theology that provides arguments for the existence of God based on what has been revealed to us (revelation). These revelations primarily come from scripture or religious experiences.
natural theology
revealed theology
inferred theology
subjective theology
This is a type of theology that provides arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature.
natural theology
revealed theology
Which theologian claims that all humans, made in the image of God, have a sensus divinitatis?
Carl Brunner
John Calvin
Karl Barth
Karl Marx
The sensus divinitatis can be illustrated by....
Religious worshippers in all cultures
Religious practice in all cultures
The 'grains of God' in all cultures
The 'seeds of religion' in all cultures: semon religionis
Sensus divinitatis is a Latin phrase meaning......
Having an innate sense of the divine
Having an taught sense of the divine within us
The senses of God
Feeling the presence of God
A way of knowing, or testing ideas, that depends on the five senses
rationalism
empiricism
A form of Christianity which rejects the authority of the Catholic Church and placed greater emphasis on the Bible and personal faith
Catholic
Protestant
Trinitarian
(a) is the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements logically.
is 'uncovering' a surprising and previously unknown fact, often one that is made known in a dramatic way
(a)
The Judeo-Christian theological doctrine that man is created in the image of God, as described in The Book of Genesis
creatio ex nihilo
Imago Yahweh
Imago Dei
(a) is having a strong belief in the doctrines of a religion based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
To have '..... ..... ' is to have a share in the divine life. It is a supernatural gift that God gives humanity.
(a)
In a Mind's road to God, St. Bonaventura suggested which three ways of 'knowing' through the...
eye of the body
eye of the flesh
eye of the mind
eye of reason
eye of contemplation
What is the name for a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour?
(a)
The Christian scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments is called the ...
(a)
Who uses St. Bonaventura's 'ways of knowing' to develop a further metaphor for knowledge of God? (Binocular vision)
Anselm of Canterbury
T. Aquinas
J. Polkinghorne
W. Occham
Augustine of Hippo
Having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity....
nuanced
neurotic
narcaleptic
numinous
The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation is known as (a) . Catholic doctrine is part of the tradition of the Church and is believed to have divine authority.
The doctrine that knowledge depends on faith or revelation.
fideism
fitre
theology
natural beliefs
Where someone gains knowledge of God in a secondary, non direct, way is known as (a)
Where someone is given direct knowledge of God is known as (a)
this is a catechism promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992. It sums up, in book form, the beliefs of the Catholic faithful.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism of the Protestant Church
The Catechism of the Catholic Apostles
The Catechism of the Catholic Mass
..... literature is a genre of writing from the ancient world, teaching about ..... and virtue. In the Bible, books such as Proverbs and Job are classified as ..... literature.
(a)
Which form of knowledge is seen in the design argument?
revealed theology
natural theology
Who believed that natural theology was important as a way to demonstrate that Christian belief was reasonable?
St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Anselm of Canterbury
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Thomas Aquinas
Which modern philosopher supports Aquinas' concepts of design qua purpose and design qua regularity?
Richard Dawkins
Richard Polkinghorne
Richard Swinburne
"The natural world is a (a) for God" John Calvin, 1536
According to Calvin, who is responsible for 'epistemic distance'?
humans, by trying to ignore or obscure the evidence of God in nature (deliberately avoiding God)
God, by making humans separate from God's knowledge (hidden from God)
who was it that agreed with John Calvin regarding the evidence of God in nature:
"for what can be clearer or more obvious, wen we have lifted our eyes to the sky, and have gazed upon the heavenly bodies, that than there exists some divine power of exalted intelligence by which these are ruled"?
Dawkins
Hick
Cicero
Caesar
In Acts 17:16-34, what is Paul preaching about in Athens?
the natural knowledge of God seen in creation
the need for Jews to recognise Jesus as God
the reasonable knowledge of God found through Jesus
