EXAM ONE

Question 1

Is theology, the study of wisdom?

Answer 1

No, it is the study of God

Question 2

In its most elemental form, what is the theology the study of

Answer 2

Theology is the study of God
Theo= God
logos= word

Question 3

What do Stanley Green and Roger Olsen insist that theology is?

Answer 3

Any reflection on the ultimate questions of life that point towards God

Question 4

Can atheists be theologians?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

What is true of every people group throughout history as it concerns religion?

Answer 5

Every people group through history has had a religion of some kind

Question 6

What does Millard Erickson claim we find wherever we find humanity?

Answer 6

We also find religion

Question 7

Does theology encompass multiple disciplines?

Answer 7

Yes - philosophy, literature, history, linguistics, ethics, etc

Question 8

According to Henry Thiessen, up until the middle of the 1800’s what was theology considered to be?

Answer 8

Theology was considered to be the Queen of Sciences

Question 9

What does theology attempt to unify and systematize?

Answer 9

Knowledge

Question 10

How did your professor interpret the quotation by Roger Scruton?

Answer 10

If truth does not exist, then the person who says that truth does not exist cannot be telling the truth

Question 11

J.P. Moreland contends that these exist among various religions.

Answer 11

Contradictions

Question 12

What do DeWeese & Moreland conclude should matter in matters of faith?

Answer 12

Knowledge

Question 13

C.S. Lewis claims that different beliefs lead to different ____.

Answer 13

Behavior

Question 14

How does Steven B Cowan define worldview?

Answer 14

Conceptual framework for interpreting and organizing experience.

Question 15

What worldview claims that the physical world is all that exists?

Answer 15

Naturalism

Question 16

What does pantheism claim about reality?

Answer 16

everything is God or a part of God

Question 17

C.S. Lewis suggests that _____ usually believe that anything we find in the universe is a part of God.

Answer 17

Pantheists

Question 18

What is the essential claim of theism?

Answer 18

There is a transcendent and supreme personal bring who is the creator of everything other than himself

Question 19

What is a claim about reality that is either true or false?

Answer 19

“Today is Monday,” “I live in Indiana”

Question 20

What is a proposition?

Answer 20

What a declarative sentence affirms or asserts

Question 21

Can propositions be trivial?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

Upon what does Douglas Groothuis claim beliefs depend for their existence?`

Answer 22

Beliefs depends on minds for their existence

Question 23

What does Douglas Groothuis say beliefs concern?

Answer 23

Proposition and the relation of those propositions to reality

Question 24

What does John Searle say that statements need in order to be true?

Answer 24

Statements need facts in order to be true

Question 25

According to DeWeese & Moreland, this cannot be dependent on sincerity, or psychological certainty, or cultural agreement or anything other than the truth of the proposition/

Answer 25

Truth

Question 26

What does the Law of Excluded Middle conclude about the existence of God?

Answer 26

There is no third option; either God exists or he does not

Question 27

Do questions express propositions?

Answer 27

No

Question 28

According to the correspondence theory of truth, what is it that makes a statement true?

Answer 28

Factual Reality

Question 29

What is it that stipulates that it cannot be true that God exists and does not exist in the same respect at the same time?

Answer 29

The law of non-contradiction

Question 30

What does the law of identity say about any X and Y that are identical?

Answer 30

everything