key word test 1

Question 1

logical problem of evil

Answer 1

God is all loving, God is all powerful, there is evil in the world - one must be false and we know there is evil..

Question 2

non cognitive

Answer 2

a view which argues religious language is not to inform

Question 3

ontological argument

Answer 3

argument for the existence of God based on the idea that the very fact we have a concept of God means he exists

Question 4

predicate

Answer 4

that part of a statement that makes assertion about a subject - telling you what something is, does or has.

Question 5

personal existence

Answer 5

an individual continuing to exist after death with consciousness, memory and personality.

Question 6

personal identity

Answer 6

what makes you ‘you’

Question 7

post mortem

Answer 7

after death

Question 8

problem of evil

Answer 8

the challenge that the existence of evil poses for faith in God.- logical and evidential.

Question 9

proof

Answer 9

a proof of God would demonstrate that the statement ‘God exists’ is true.

Question 10

reason

Answer 10

the use of logic to come to a conclusion

Question 11

rebirth

Answer 11

a process of change from one life and moment to the next.

Question 12

reincarnation

Answer 12

the transfer of a soul at death, to a new body at birth.

Question 13

religion

Answer 13

an organised faith system

Question 14

replica theory

Answer 14

John Hicks theory that the same person would both live and die after death if a replica of the dead person were created in the after life.

Question 15

resurrection

Answer 15

the belief that after death an individual will be raised again by an external power.

Jesus rising from the dead.

Question 16

soul

Answer 16

the essence of the person

Question 17

symbolic

Answer 17

a view of religious language which sees the words as representing a reality to which they participate.

Question 18

theodicy

Answer 18

a defence of the justice of God in the light of evil

Question 19

verification principle

Answer 19

the idea that the meaning of a statement lies in the methods of verification.

Question 20

analogical view of religious language

Answer 20

Aquinas’ view that descriptive terms when applied to God mean neither the same something different as to when applied to humanity.

Question 21

Anselm

Answer 21

once the Archbishop of Canterbury, he propose a famous version of the ontological argument.

Question 22

Augustine

Answer 22

proposed a famous theodicy based on the idea of original sin.

Question 23

Augustinian tradition

Answer 23

free will is identified as the source of all evil.

Question 24

blik

Answer 24

used by Hare to denote a frame of reference.

Question 25

body/soul relationship

Answer 25

sometimes seen as two different substances, but sometimes seen as needing each other to function.

Question 26

Descartes

Answer 26

developed a version of the ontological argument.

Question 27

eschatological verification

Answer 27

the belief that some statements will be proved right after death.

Question 28

evil

Answer 28

that which is against God's will; cause of suffering. Divided into natural and moral evil.

Question 29

evidential problem of evil

Answer 29

The amount of suffering makes it unlikely that God exists.

Question 30

existential claims

Answer 30

those relating to existing things.

Question 31

faith

Answer 31

a belief, religion and trust

Question 32

falsification principle

Answer 32

Flews idea that truth of something lies in its methods of falsification

Question 33

free will defence

Answer 33

the idea that how free will is used, causes evil in the world.

Question 34

Hare

Answer 34

thought of blik

Question 35

Hick

Answer 35

a contemporary philosopher of religion and theology.

Question 36

Hick's vale of soul making theodicy

Answer 36

both forms of evil are essential to 'soul making'.

Question 37

immortality

Answer 37

not subject to death.

Question 38

Irenaean theodicy

Answer 38

humanity develops through evil.

Question 39

language games

Answer 39

the name given by Wittgenstein to his claim that the use of language is governed by rules, like games.