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Contemporary Theology Prelim Exam

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

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1.

 Intellectual historians have often said that modern philosophy began with the thought of:

a)

Immanuel Kant

b)

René Descartes

c)

William of Occam

d)

Noam Chomsky

2.

What did Descartes remove from the center of the philosophical enterprise?

a)

God

b)

logic

c)

ethics

d)

metaphysics

3.

 Descartes held that the proper starting point for philosophical reflection was:

a)

God

b)

that which the human mind could know beyond any doubt

c)

Kerygma

d)

Plato’s Republic

4.

 Descartes’s one certain truth, from which his epistemology began, was:

a)

God’s existence

b)

God’s revelation

c)

his own existence

d)

the tabula rasa

5.

 Descartes spearheaded the philosophical movement known as:

a)

rationalism

b)

empiricism

c)

rational empiricism

d)

nominalism

6.

Who combined the traditions of rationalism and empiricism?

a)

Immanuel Kant

b)

René Descartes

c)

Bonaventure

d)

George Berkeley

7.

Kant held that such concepts as causality, disjunction, particularity, and universality are _________ categories.

a)

false

b)

empirical

c)

transcendental

d)

phenomenal

8.

Kant asserted that he had put an end to:

a)

reason

b)

faith

c)

philosophy

d)

metaphysics

9.

 Schleiermacher was the founder of:

a)

Kantian Christianity

b)

modern liberal theology

c)

modern eschatology

d)

systematic theology

10.

Friedrich Schleiermacher’s parents were:

a)

Roman Catholic

b)

pietist

c)

Lutheran

d)

atheist

11.

Schleiermacher was highly influenced by the Enlightenment thought of:

a)

Thomas Aquinas

b)

Thomas Reid

c)

Immanuel Kant

d)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

12.

Schleiermacher defines God as the ______, or world spirit that pervades everything.

a)

Geist

b)

Gefühl

c)

Gestalt

d)

Ubermensch

13.

Schleiermacher understood the Bible as:

a)

divinely inspired, but not infallible.

b)

infallible, but not inerrant

c)

neither divinely inspired nor infallible

d)

historically true, but lacking present-day significance

14.

 Relinquishing what one has in favor of giving it to others is:

a)

alienation

b)

faith

c)

aufheben

d)

synthesis

15.

  For Hegel, _________ is the activity that relates particular things to each other and unifies them into a whole.

a)

love

b)

spirit

c)

community

d)

cult

16.

The three stages of Hegel’s dialectical method are:

a)

thesis, antithesis, synthesis

b)

hypothesis, excursus, distinction

c)

thesis, contradiction, resolution

d)

spirit, matter, being

17.

John Nelson Darby began:

a)

premillennial eschatology

b)

dispensational theology

c)

Dallas Theological Seminary

d)

postmillennial eschatology

18.

 Hegel maintained that every genuine religion must include:

a)

sacraments

b)

cult

c)

resurrection

d)

asceticism

19.

 Darby separated the Bible into seven ______.

a)

doctrines

b)

commandments

c)

layers of meaning

d)

dispensations

20.

 For Hegel, the key to religion is:

a)

events in history

b)

the Bible

c)

propositional truth

d)

subjectivity

21.

 Hegel maintained philosophy cannot exist without:

a)

mysticism

b)

Scripture

c)

religion

d)

evolution

22.

For Hegel, _________ unites both the finite and the infinite.

a)

YHWH

b)

Christ

c)

“becoming”

d)

spirit

23.

Based on 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Darby believed that in the future the church will be:

a)

raptured

b)

restored to Judaism

c)

called to judge the Jews

d)

God’s appointed rulers for one millennium

24.

What did Darby believe will one day be resumed in Jerusalem?

a)

the teaching and healing ministry of Christ

b)

the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament

c)

the completion of the wall

d)

the Edenic paradise

25.

 Schleiermacher believed that Christ had only a human nature.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Darby maintained that Israel and the church constituted one single people of God.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Darby believed that those who entered the millennial rule of Christ on earth would continue to have mortal bodies and that marriage and childbearing would continue.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Darby insisted that in the new heavens and new earth, the church and Israel will be kept separate.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

 According to Darby, during the great tribulation the church will face severe persecution

a)

True

b)

False

30.

Hegel’s dialectical method is extremely important in contemporary theology and philosophy, since most later thinkers incorporated his dialectical method into their own programs

a)

True

b)

False

31.

 Darby believed that Christians, despite being saved, will each be judged by Christ according to their actions.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

For Hegel, the universal is highly concrete and the particular is most abstract.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

Kant thought that, since God lies beyond the realm of what we can know, there is no room for faith.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

According to Darby, after the rapture the church will eventually return to earth to dwell with the rest of restored humanity.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

Schleiermacher held a high view of the Old Testament even though he de-literalized much of it.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

 Schleiermacher thought that the doctrine of the Trinity was not essential to the Christian faith.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

Descartes’s purpose was to undermine faith.

a)

True

b)

False

38.

In On Religion, Schleiermacher argued that the essence of Christianity resides in divine revelation.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

Schleiermacher’s book The Christian Faith de-literalized all supernatural elements of the Christian faith.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

 For Hegel, God is not necessarily personal.

a)

True

b)

False