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God & Time - Divine Eternity and Divine Action in Time

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Anselm's approach to God and Time is...

a)

2 dimensionalist

b)

3 dimensionalist

c)

4 dimensionalist

d)

Omni-dimensionalist

2.

Who said "You surely cannot deny that the uncorrupted is better than something corrupt, the eternal than the temporal, and the invulnerable than the vulnerable."

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Hartshorne

d)

Anselm

3.

Who said... "This... is the condition of place and time: whatever is enclosed within their boundaries does not avoid having parts... By contrast, if something is not in any way constrained by confinement in a place or time, no law of place or time can force it into a multiplicity of parts or prevent it from being present as a whole all at once in several places or times."

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Anselm

d)

Hartshorne

4.

Who said... "although that which he foreknows in his eternity is immutable, in time it is mutable before it happens."

a)

Jesus

b)

Anselm

c)

Swinburne

d)

Hartshorne

5.

Who said "Just as our present time envelops every place and whatever is in every place, so in the eternal present all time is encompassed along with whatever exists at any time."

a)

Jesus

b)

Anselm

c)

Swinburne

d)

Hartshorne

6.

Who said "The Hebrew Bible shows no knowledge of the doctrine of divine timelessness; for its authors now God does this, now that; now destroys Jerusalem, now lets exiles return home."

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Hartshorne

d)

Anselm

7.

Who said "How could God be aware at his one timeless moment of two events happening at different times, unless the two awarenesses are simultaneous with each other, and so two events happening at different times would have to happen at the same time - which is logically impossible.

a)

Jesus

b)

Anselm

c)

Swinburne

d)

Hartshorne

8.

Who said "A totally immutable God is a lifeless God, not a God with whom one can have a personal relationship - as theists normally have claimed that one can have with God."

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Hartshorne

d)

Anselm

9.

Who said "Without telling themselves so, the founders of the theological tradition were accepting and applying to deity the tyrant ideal of power. “I decide and determine everything, you (and your friends and enemies) merely do what I determine you (and them) to do. Your decision is simply mine for you. You only think you decide: in reality the decision is mine.”

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Hartshorne

d)

Anselm

10.

Who said "the New Testament analogy – found also in Greek religions – for deity is the parental role... The ideal is that the child shall more and more decide its own behaviour as its intelligence grows. Wise parents do not try to determine everything."

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Anselm

d)

Hartshorne

11.

Who said "A world without risks is not conceivable. At best it would be a totally dead world, with neither good nor evil."

a)

Swinburne

b)

Hartshorne

c)

Jesus

d)

Anselm

12.

Who said "Our rejection of omnipotence will be attacked by the charge, “So you dare to limit the power of God?” Not so, I impose no such limit if this means, as it seems to imply, that God’s power fails to measure up to some genuine ideal. All I have said is that omnipotence as usually conceived is a false or indeed absurd ideal, which in truth limits God, denies to him any world worth talking about: a world of living, that is to say, significantly decision-making, agents."

a)

Hartshorne

b)

Swinburne

c)

Anselm

d)

Jesus

13.

Who said "God is that than which none greater can be conceived."

a)

Anselm

b)

Jesus

c)

Swinburne

d)

Hartshorne

14.

Who wrote "if you cannot damn yourself no matter how hard you go on trying, your salvation is inevitable. A God who wishes all men to be saved is of dubious moral status."

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Anselm

d)

Hartshorne

15.

Who said "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children."

a)

Anselm

b)

Hartshorne

c)

Jesus

d)

Swinburne

16.

Who said "Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, “Show us the Father”?"

a)

Anselm

b)

Hartshorne

c)

Jesus

d)

Swinburne

17.

Who said "God’s good management is the explanation of there being a cosmic order that limits the scope of freedom and hence of chance-limits, but does not reduce to zero. "

a)

Hartshorne

b)

Swinburne

c)

Jesus

d)

Anselm

18.

Who wrote "Omnipotence and other theological mistakes."

a)

Anselm

b)

Jesus

c)

Hartshorne

d)

Swinburne

19.

Who wrote that "the probability of theism is none too close to 1 or 0" but went on to argue that religious experience tips the balance in favour of God.

a)

Swinburne

b)

Anselm

c)

Hartshorne

d)

Jesus

20.

Who used the analogy of the toys in the cupboard who come out when not watched to argue that (religious) language can be meaningful even if not falsifiable or verifiable

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Anselm

d)

Hartshorne

21.

Who argued that claims about religious experience should be respected on the grounds of the principles of testimony and credulity?

a)

Jesus

b)

Swinburne

c)

Hartshorne

d)

Anselm

22.

Who said, "we are not like a pilot in a flight simulator, our choices have real significance. This

does not compromise God’s omnipotence even if God ‘puts certain events outside of his control’."

a)

Anselm

b)

Hartshorne

c)

Jesus

d)

Swinburne