Theology I Exam II

Increasing disorder and cosmic decay, loss of information, decreasing energy, stars burning out over time

Entropy

Hubble's primary discovery

Expansion

The inter-convertibility of matter and energy

Einstein

1964 verification by Penzias and Wilson

Explosion

1971 announcement by Hawking, proved Einstein right

Epochal

Late 1960's perplexity with what to do with the nee emerging paradigm of how the universe began

Enigmatic

Last 30+ years of endless quotes such as "It's like looking at God" or "it's the discovery of the century if not of all time"

Elation

E=mc2

Einstein

Mass and energy are the same physical entity and can be changed or converted into each other

Einstein

Not pigeon poop

Explosion

Emphasizes the design in the universe

Teleological

Emphasizes a "Beginner" or "First or Necessary" Cause of Being

Cosmological

Emphasizes that our sense of right and wrong ultimately makes no sense unless there is a transcendent standard, norm, person, or Lawgiver

Moral

Emphasizes that the best argumentation or apologetic emerges from honestly comparing the worldview options

Worldview

Aquinas is most famous for variations of these two arguments

Cosmological and Teleological

Affirmed that the first life on earth arrived here via a Comet:

a. Hoyle

b. Arrhenius

c. Crick

d. Morris

e. Ross

B Arrhenius

This view affirms ex nihilo creation and miracles

Christian Theism

"There is no truth" (choose the best single answer)

Nihilism

Humans are divine but don't always realize it

New Age Pantheism

Sin is primarily bad thinking and/or rational ignorance (choose one answer: virtually everyone holding to this worldview would agree, and this view does believe in a personal Supreme Being)

Deism

This modernist view believes that a personal Creator God exists, and that Jesus is a good, rational, ethical teacher, but just a man; Jesus is not "yoda" or Buddha type of spiritual guide

Deism

God is a watchmaker; The religion of the Enlightenment (1700s). Followers believed that God existed and had created the world, but that afterwards He left it to run by its own natural laws.

 Deism

All is God, God is fully identified with the world (good and evil)

Pantheism

God is absolutely and uniquely distinct from and superior to everything in creation.

Transcendence

A trait of God that refers to his intimate union with and total presence to his creation

Immanence

God holds the universe and exists beyond it

Panentheism

The knowledge God reveals to all through material creation, human experience and conscience, and perhaps God's direction of history

 General Revelation

A belief system that posits that the divine exists and interpenetrates every part of nature while timelessly extends beyond it. God and the material universe are interrelated but not identical.

Panentheism

When God reveals through his distinctive work in history to restore creation, supremely in his Son because human as well as his communication through prophets and apostles.

Special Revelation

The most conservative view with the highest view of biblical inspiration and inerrancy

Full inerrancy

Inerrancy is limited to certain categories of Scripture (salvation or ethics) and/or certain parts of the Bible

Limited inerrancy

Moses commanded that the Law be put by the side of the Ark of the Covenant (T/F)

True

The Bible contains and/or becomes the Word, but is not the Word as it sits on the

Barth's View

Inerrancy doctrine is a twentieth century attempt to impose a modern 21st century view on an ancient document and the whole conversation should be dropped

Irrelevancy of Inerrancy

The Bible inerrantly leads people to salvation but it contains mistakes and errors; this view is similar to but more conservative than Barth's view concerning the mistakes and errors in the Bible

Inerrancy of Purpose

The traditional Christian view of creation is known as creation (or creatio):

a. Transcendent

b. Immanent

c. Out of Nothing (or not from any previously existing stuff), ex nihilio

d. Out of God

e. Eternalis

C Out of Nothing

A metanarrative (Lyotard) is a:

a. BIG, all-encompassing story

b. BIG, all-encompassing fish

c. BIG pair of pants

A. Story

Postmodernists affirm that they love metanarratives.

False

Peter Singer essentially believes in infanticide. (t/f)

True

"All we are is dust in the wind" (choose best answer as always):

a. Christian theism

b. New Age Pantheism

c. Nihilism

d. Atheism

C Nihilism

Marx argued that religion is the ____________ of the people:

a. Illusion

b. Opiate

c. Selfish Gene

B Opiate

Logocentric education (choose the best answer):

a. New Age education

b. Christian higher education

c. Bonhoeffer's Communist Kindergarten

B Christian Higher Ed

Genesis Chapter 1 was read to the world by American astronauts from space about when:

a. Early 1940s

b. Early 1950s

c. Late 1950s

d. Early 1960s

e. Late 1960s

e. Late 1960s

Genesis 1 and 2 affirm or imply these beliefs about God which conflict with virtually every other worldview:

a. Hovered

b. Walked and talked

c. Only 1 creator

d. A personal creator in whose image we were made

e. All of the above

E. All of the above

The Bible condemns:

a. Childish thinking

b. Childlike thinking

A. Childish thinking

"God is Dead" according to:

a. Commander Borman

b. The Cult of the Supreme Being

c. Michelangelo

d. Nietzsche

e. None of the above

D. Nietzsche

Deists believe that we can bring about Paradise on earth after we reject Enlightenment/Modernist thinking.

False

Relative to the nature of and solution to sin, which worldview really emphasizes the heart:

a. Christian theism

b. Deism

c. Atheism

d. Nihilism

A. Christian theism

Christian or Judeo-Christian Theism

a. Denies all miracles

b. Affirms pantheism

c. Believes in an eternal universe

d. Affirms belief in many gods

e. None of the above

E. None of the above

Your professor, right or wrong , emphasizes that the two key modes of God's special revelation are Word and deed revelation

True

Deut 31 refers to putting Scripture on the doors, gates, the hand/arm, and even the frontlets of God's people

False

Hagios and Qodosh mean holy

True

Your professor would agree with the general idea that Scripture is not a science textbook, but it does contain massively important assumptions about the nature of reality and the Who, why, and how of creation. (T/F)

true

"There is no truth"

Nihilism

Jesus is fully human and fully divine (in the monotheistic sense; the Blackwell text also discussed this)

Theism

Views the Ten Commandments as divinely, supernaturally, miraculously, revealed ethical absolutes or norms

theism

Creatio ex nihilio, miracles, transcendence and immanence

 Monotheism

An argument that tries to demonstrate God's existence by logical analysis of the concept of God

Ontological Argument

The universe both exists and is finely ordered, pointing to a Creator and Designer

Cosmo-teleological

Jesus is one of many spiritually enlightened ones, spiritual guides, Jesus is a yoda or Buddha type figure

New Age Pantheism

Going within and finding your own divinity and oneness with the one

New Age Pantheism

Humans are divine but don't always realize it

New Age Pantheism

Life was VERY cheap during the dominant era of this ancient worldview

Polytheism

Infanticide, abortion, pederasty and gladiatorial games were widespread, legal and considered ethical during the dominant era of this worldview

Polytheism

C. S. Lewis believes that this system emphasizes grace more than any other

Theism

Dominated During the Middle Ages

Monotheism

The French Revolution embraced these two worldviews in the first decade after the revolution, and this shift was reflected in "worship" at the Notre Dame Cathedral

Atheism and Deism

Frank Borman

Theism (astronaut story)

1. The first two phases of the French Revolution emphasized:

a. Atheism/Secularism/Agnosticism/Deism

b. Theism

c. Judaism

d. Islam

ab. Pantheism

ac. Polytheism

a. Atheism/Secularism/Agnosticism/Deism

1. Assumes that "All is God," pantheism

a. Atheism

b. Theism

c. Judaism

d. Islam

e. Agnosticism

ab. New Age Movement

ac. Polytheism

Ab. new age movement

Ancient Egyptian culture (and Babylonian, Greek):

a. Atheism

b. Theism

c. Judaism

d. Islam

e. Agnosticism

ab. Polytheism

Ab. Polytheism

The "Trinity" of the French Revolution:

a. Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam

b. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

c. Liberty, Fraternity, Equality

d. Atheism, Agnosticism, Monotheism

e. Locke, Adams, and Rousseau

c. Liberty, Fraternity, Equality

(t/f) C.S. Lewis believed that perhaps THE characteristic and defining Christian belief/doctrine is grace, reflected in the idea of the Hound of Heaven

true

1. When the Christian universities first emerged, _____________ was the integrative queen of the sciences (all academic disciplines).

a. Philosophy

b. Astronomy

c. Rhetoric

d. Languages

e. Theology

E. Theology

1. The worldview that Wesley had to battle in his day, at Oxford, and in the Anglican church, was called Latitudinarianism, but was essentially or very similar to:

a. New Age

b. Atheism

c. Deism

d. Nihilism

e. Anarchism

C. Deism

Thomas Jefferson: very close to this view

Deism

1. The Postmodern time period began in the ________ century A.D.:

a. 12th

b. 14th

c. 16th

d. 18th

e. 20th

E. 20th

Which worldview was culturally dominant in the West during the Ancient time period:

a. Monotheism

b. Deism

c. Atheism

d. Polytheism

e. Nihilism

d. Polytheism

An argument for God based upon pure reason, or pure logic

None of the above

Humans are, according to some versions of this worldview, slaves of the gods

Polytheism

Humanity is the crown of creation, miracles can happen, the universe is finite, Bonhoeffer

Theism

Nietzsche (choose the single best view)

Skepticism

Peter Singer's view on infanticide is directly connected with this worldview

Naturalism

Caught Truth not Taught Truth

Pantheism

Nirvana, samsara, moksha, karma are adopted or Westernized by this view

Pantheism

Going within and finding your own divinity and oneness with the one

Pantheism

Which two systems often view animals as divine

Pantheism and Polytheism

The churches are the sepulchers of God

Nihilism

God exists, but is limited in one or more aspects of his nature. God is finite but involved as much as He can in creation.

Finite Godism

Reincarnation is very common among these two systems

Pantheism and Polytheism

Shirley MacLaine, Fritjof Capra, Yoda, Joseph Campbell, Oprah, Avatar, Star

Pantheism

Higher consciousness that leads to a golden age, comes in the West after the age of Western skepticism

Pantheism

Angels and demons simply do not exist (choose the best three)

Deism, Naturalism, Skepticism

Humans are ultimately nothing but worm food (choose the best two)

Naturalism and Skepticism

Dust in the wind

Naturalism (or skepticism, not sure)

Sin is primarily bad thinking and/or rational ignorance (choose one answer: virtually everyone holding to this worldview would agree, and this view does believe in a personal Supreme Being)

Deism

Came right after Atheism or Naturalism (historically)

Skepticism