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WorksheetsContemporary Theology Prelim Exam
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Intellectual historians have often said that modern philosophy began with the thought of:
Immanuel Kant
René Descartes
William of Occam
Noam Chomsky
What did Descartes remove from the center of the philosophical enterprise?
God
logic
ethics
metaphysics
Descartes held that the proper starting point for philosophical reflection was:
God
that which the human mind could know beyond any doubt
Kerygma
Plato’s Republic
Descartes’s one certain truth, from which his epistemology began, was:
God’s existence
God’s revelation
his own existence
the tabula rasa
Descartes spearheaded the philosophical movement known as:
rationalism
empiricism
rational empiricism
nominalism
Who combined the traditions of rationalism and empiricism?
Immanuel Kant
René Descartes
Bonaventure
George Berkeley
Kant held that such concepts as causality, disjunction, particularity, and universality are _________ categories.
false
empirical
transcendental
phenomenal
Kant asserted that he had put an end to:
reason
faith
philosophy
metaphysics
Schleiermacher was the founder of:
Kantian Christianity
modern liberal theology
modern eschatology
systematic theology
Friedrich Schleiermacher’s parents were:
Roman Catholic
pietist
Lutheran
atheist
Schleiermacher was highly influenced by the Enlightenment thought of:
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Reid
Immanuel Kant
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Schleiermacher defines God as the ______, or world spirit that pervades everything.
Geist
Gefühl
Gestalt
Ubermensch
Schleiermacher understood the Bible as:
divinely inspired, but not infallible.
infallible, but not inerrant
neither divinely inspired nor infallible
historically true, but lacking present-day significance
Relinquishing what one has in favor of giving it to others is:
alienation
faith
aufheben
synthesis
For Hegel, _________ is the activity that relates particular things to each other and unifies them into a whole.
love
spirit
community
cult
The three stages of Hegel’s dialectical method are:
thesis, antithesis, synthesis
hypothesis, excursus, distinction
thesis, contradiction, resolution
spirit, matter, being
John Nelson Darby began:
premillennial eschatology
dispensational theology
Dallas Theological Seminary
postmillennial eschatology
Hegel maintained that every genuine religion must include:
sacraments
cult
resurrection
asceticism
Darby separated the Bible into seven ______.
doctrines
commandments
layers of meaning
dispensations
For Hegel, the key to religion is:
events in history
the Bible
propositional truth
subjectivity
Hegel maintained philosophy cannot exist without:
mysticism
Scripture
religion
evolution
For Hegel, _________ unites both the finite and the infinite.
YHWH
Christ
“becoming”
spirit
Based on 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Darby believed that in the future the church will be:
raptured
restored to Judaism
called to judge the Jews
God’s appointed rulers for one millennium
What did Darby believe will one day be resumed in Jerusalem?
the teaching and healing ministry of Christ
the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament
the completion of the wall
the Edenic paradise
Schleiermacher believed that Christ had only a human nature.
True
False
Darby maintained that Israel and the church constituted one single people of God.
True
False
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.
True
False
Darby insisted that in the new heavens and new earth, the church and Israel will be kept separate.
True
False
According to Darby, during the great tribulation the church will face severe persecution
True
False
Hegel’s dialectical method is extremely important in contemporary theology and philosophy, since most later thinkers incorporated his dialectical method into their own programs
True
False
Darby believed that Christians, despite being saved, will each be judged by Christ according to their actions.
True
False
For Hegel, the universal is highly concrete and the particular is most abstract.
True
False
Kant thought that, since God lies beyond the realm of what we can know, there is no room for faith.
True
False
According to Darby, after the rapture the church will eventually return to earth to dwell with the rest of restored humanity.
True
False
Schleiermacher held a high view of the Old Testament even though he de-literalized much of it.
True
False
Schleiermacher thought that the doctrine of the Trinity was not essential to the Christian faith.
True
False
Descartes’s purpose was to undermine faith.
True
False
In On Religion, Schleiermacher argued that the essence of Christianity resides in divine revelation.
True
False
Schleiermacher’s book The Christian Faith de-literalized all supernatural elements of the Christian faith.
True
False
For Hegel, God is not necessarily personal.
True
False
