Worksheets6.2 - Knowledge of God's Existence - Overall
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
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
inferred theology
subjective theology
Acts 17: “The God who made the world and everything in it…does not l_______ i____t ___________ b_________b ______ h_________ h________"
(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
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
Polkinghorne's binocular vision analogy includes looking at the world with
scientific understanding
spiritual understanding
metaphysical understanding
religious understanding
Having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity....
nuanced
neurotic
narcaleptic
numinous
Which philosopher talks about the numinous?
Rudolph Otto
Friedrich Schleiermacher
John Calvin
Ludwig Fuerbach
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
Which form of knowledge is seen in the design argument?
revealed theology
natural theology
He said “The skilful ordering of the universe is for us a sort of mirror in which we can contemplate God, who is otherwise invisible.”
Calvin
Otto
Rahner
Polkinghorne
He argued that nature is not reflective of God because nature is horrible, cruel, evil
John Stuart Mill
Aquinas
Paley
Freud
He argued that having a sense of religion/God was simply a mass delusion
Freud
Dawkins
Polkinghorne
Bonaventure
Freud also argued that believing in God was simply...
wish-fulfillment
fantasy
a dream
a nightmare
He believed that it was a form of arrogance to suggest that fallible human reason could lead people into any knowledge of God. Thought that people can only know God when he chooses to reveal himself
Karl Barth
John Stuart Mill
Dawkins
Freud
He argued faith involves a living awareness of God of a direct, intuitive kind. the person who has it, it requires no further argument or support.
Donovan
Dawkins
Kierkegaard
Schliermacher
Who said: “This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”
Dawkins
Kierkegaard
Calvin
Bonaventure
Who described faith as '“blind trust, in the absence of evidence…faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.”
Kierkegaard
Hume
Freud
Dawkins
Jesus’ followers were ‘filled’ with the Holy Spirit when celebrating the festival of what?
Pentecost
Christmas
Easter
Epiphany
The term which describes the Bible as the only source of moral authority that Christians need (S___ S________)
(a)
2 Timothy 3:16 - "All scripture is ___________ and useful for teaching"
God-breathed
God-given
God's word
divine
The term describing the idea that Jesus is 100% man and 100% God
(a)
Which philosopher argued that for a religious experience to be valid, it must be passive, ineffable, noetic and transient
William James
Swinburne
Schliermacher
Aquinas
Who said: “Wherever [religion] is present and effective it must so reveal itself that it moves the mind in a peculiar manner"
Schliermacher
Swinburne
Calvin
Aquinas
What ethical theory can also be associated with natural knowledge of God's existence? It argues that humans an an inbuilt sense of rational thinking and have an awareness of God
Utilitarianism
Natural Law
Kantian ethics
Situational ethics
