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WorksheetsMiddle Ages Philosophy
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 22mins
At the centre of the reflections of philosophers of the Middle Ages is:
a) nature
b) personality
c) God
d) ideal world
The most important branch of knowledge in the Middle Ages
a) philosophy
b) theology
c) logic
d) mathematics
The theory of God's justification for the evil he allows in the world is called
a) tendency;
b) theocracy
c) theogony
d) theodicy
What is eschatology?
a) doctrine of the end of the world
b) doctrine of the end of the man
c) doctrine of the end of the cosmos
d) doctrine of the beginning of the world
What does exegetics teach?
a) interpretation of sacred texts
b) interpretation of nature
c) interpretation of Plato's works
d) interpretation of the sophists
What is monotheism?
a) recognition of Plato and Plotinus
b) recognition of science
c) recognition of multiple Gods
d) recognition of one God
Theocentrism is ...
a) recognition of God as the source of being, goodness and beauty
b) recognition of philosophy as the source of being
c) recognition of the sophists as goodness and beauty
d) recognition of a man and a woman as the source of being
How can you explain what creationism is?
a) recognising God as the sole creator of nature
b) recognising a miracle as everything in the world
c) recognising God as the sole creator of everything in the world
d) recognising cosmos and planets as creators of everything in the world
Providentialism is focused on...
a) the only will and providence of God
b) the will and providence people
c) the forseeing future
d) the only will and providence of the emperor
Proof of the existence of God was in Middle Ages one the most...
a) difficult problems
b) important theodicy
c) crucial parts of eschatology
d) important idea of Plato
What was philosophy often called in Middle Ages?
a) servant of medicine
b) servant of theology
c) an advisor of the emperor
d) a sister of science
What are the two main directions of theology?
a) patristics and scholastics
b) science and biology
c) patristics and dogma
d) dogma and scholastics
The Scholastics declared a distinction between:
a) reason and intuition
b) feeling and thought
c) faith and mind
d) conscious and unconscious
Thomas Aquinas had the concept of...
a) the incompatibility of faith and knowledge
b) the superiority of faith over knowledge
c) the harmony of faith and knowledge
d) the superiority of knowledge over faith
A philosophical doctrine in which the Christian faith is justified from a position of reason:
a) patristics
b) scholastics
c) idealism
d) materialism
Faith was opposed in the Middle Ages to ...
a) skill
b) desire
c) feeling
d) reason
The term "creationism" from the Latin translates as...
a) creation
b) God
c) Father
d) providence
The decisive influence on the development of medieval philosophy was...
a) art
b) science
c) mythology
d) religion
In the medieval culture of Western Europe the "queen of all sciences" was considered:
a) mathematics
b) philosophy
c) alchemy
d) theology
One of the most famous apologists of Middle Ages were...
a) Tertullian and Origen
b) Plato and Aristotle
b) Basil the Great and Socrates
d) Gregory of Nyssa and Parmenides
Who pronounced a famous phraze "Believe in order to understand"?phrase
a) Plato
b) Pierre Abelard
c) Aurelius Augugustinus
d) Gregory of Nyssa
What branch of Middle Ages philosophy was Basil the Great a main representative of?
a) patristics
b) theodicy
c) scholastics
d) Ionian School
