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Apologetics final 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the first thousand years of Christianity, Christian apologetics was focused on: | debates between Judaism and Islam |
| During the 17th and 18th century, those who rejected God's existence were often known as: | skeptics or freethinkers |
| During the 17th and 18th centuries, those who accepted God's existence were often known as: | deists |
| During the 17th and 18th centuries, those who accepted divine revelation but rejected the importance or value of religious belief were often known as: | Libertines |
| This Apologist's genius was that he incorporated the insights of Locke and Dodwell into an amazingly balanced and nuanced apologetic: | Pascal |
| The Pensees are a collection of apologetic notes that ____ left behind after his death. | Pascal |
| Who is known as the father of modern theology? | Schleiermacher |
| What is the most important requirement for doing apologetics? | One's attitude and approach to apologetic conversations must be appropriate. |
| The claim that Christian belief is true in a robust sense--in the sense of "describing what is," understanding truth as a relation between statements and reality, reflects an understanding of truth called the ______ theory of truth. | Correspondence |
| Whatever the cause of unbelief, Beilby states that the fundamental result is a lack of basic _______ when approaching Christian belief. | trust |
| _____ is more important than speaking, and understanding is more than being. | Listening |
| In our apologetic encounters, we must see ourselves as a part of a process--a process in which the most important player is not us, but the ______ ______ | Holy spirit |
| According to Beilby, 1 Peter 3:15 is called the apologetic ______. | Mandate |
| Which kind of apologetics sought to demonstrate the antiquity of Christian beliefs and sought to show that Christians were no threat to political stability? | Political apologetics |
| What are the Patristic apologists? | Justin Martyr, Origen, and Augustine. |
| Who was the first well known Christian apologist in the early church? | Justin Martyr |
| The most significant apologetic work from the first three centuries was written by _____ | Origen |
| Who is the unquestioned apologetic giant of the Patristic period? | Augustine |
| Augustine's apologetic magnum opus is undoubtedly The ____ of ____. | city, God |
| Who is the unquestioned titan of the medieval theological landscape? | Thomas Aquinas |
| According to Craig, we can present a defense of the Christian faith without becoming ______ | defensive |
| According to Craig, we can present arguments for Christianity without becoming _____. | argumentative |
| What are the three reasons for training people in apologetics? | Shaping culture, strengthening believers, winning unbelievers. |
| The steps of an argument that lead to the conclusion are called the _____ of an argument. | premises |
| ____ us a worldview that allows no room for the supernatural: no miracles, no divine revelation, no God. | Secularism |
| Who are the new atheists? | Harris, Dawkins, Hitchens |
| The Greek word that is the basis for our English term "apologetics" is: | Apologia |
| This man's diatribes against apologetics are, in large part, directed towards revisionist apologetics: | Barth |
| The idea that in the absence of special considerations, if it seems to a subject that X is present, then probably X is present; what one seems to perceive is probably so is called: | The principle of credulity |
| ___ is the idea that beliefs are only true relative to a particular frame of reference or perspective. | Relativism |
| Who stated "By all means feeding the starving, clothe the destitute, and off a cup of cold water to the thirsty...."? | Gordon Lewis |
| What are the four most important reasons to do apologetics cited by Beilby? | Apologetics is commanded by God, Apologetics is necessary in our culture, theological education requires an appropriate emphasis on apologetics. |
| The success of apologetic arguments depends crucially on the presence and action of the ____ _____ | Holy Spirit |
| According to John Calvin, what is it that gives all people an awareness of God's character? | Sensus divinitatis |
| What is the 17th and 18th Centuries known as? | The Enlightenment |
| T/F After the findings of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton revolutionized the way humans viewed their world, most apologists spent the next seventeen centuries seeking to demonstrate the scientific credibility of the Christian faith. | False |
| T/F According to Beilby, Karl Barth was opposed to the very concept of defending and commending the faith. | False |
| T/F Too often, Christians have been condescending, arrogant and dismissive in their apologetic encounters. | True |
| T/F when a Christian apologist defends a particular Christian belief, the goal is merely to suggest that the belief is pragmatically useful or persuasive or spiritually fruitful. | False |
| T/F The goal of theology is to create a map of beliefs that adequately describes God's nature, desires, actions and expectations of human beings. | True |
| Yes or No. Is philosophical proof of Christian beliefs possible, according to Beilby? | No |
| T/F Christianity requires the full action of the head, heart and hands. | True |
| T/F None of the books of the New Testament is an apologetic text in a systematic sense. | True |
| T/F The Gospel writers were concerned not only to relate the message of Jesus but to do so in a way that was persuasive to their audience. | True |
| T/F Time is unreal and history is cyclical. | False |
| T/F "The cosmos is all that is or ever was or that will be." | False |
| T/F Human beings are conscious machines without the ability to affect their own destiny or do anything significant. | False |
| T/F Self is the prime reality. | False |
| T/F We can never choose evil. We always choose the good. | False |
| T/F Reason is the sole criterion for truth. | False |
| T/F God created the cosmos ex nihilo to operate with a uniformity of cause and effect in an open system. | True |
| T/F History is linear. | True |
| T/F The cosmos God created is determined, because it is created as a uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system; no miracle is possible. | False |
| T/F The cosmos exists as a uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system. | False |
| T/F knowing apologetics will guarantee that you will keep the faith. | False |
| T/F Relativism is the view that a thing in question is the case only in relation to something else. | True |
| T/F C.S. Lewis rejected Christianity as a teenager for both personal and intellectual reasons. | True |
| T/F Beilby asserts that he and all Orthodox Christians are skeptical about the possibility of fully comprehending God's nature. | True |
| T/F The objection to apologetics from global skepticism runs aground on the fact that it is more reasonable to be skeptical about the scenarios described by the global skeptics than about everyday beliefs like "I am sitting." | True |
| T/F One argument of the religious skeptic is that 1st one can only have knowledge of things that can be perceived with the 5 senses and 2nd that religious knowledge cannot be based on the senses-therefore knowledge of the religious realm is impossible. | True |
| T/F According to Beilby, postmodernism is the same thing as relativism. | False |
| T/F According to Beilby, postmodernism wrongly questions the assumptions that facts are self-interpreting, certainty is possible, and arguments by themselves are sufficient to induce faith. | False |
| T/F Some Christians assert that there are specific and clear repudiations of the practice of apologetics in Scripture. | True |
| T/F Some Christians assert that because the Bible does not address the topic of apologetics, it can't be used to justify the practice of apologetics. | True |
| T/F Addressing the social needs in the world and doing apologetics are mutually exclusive. | False |
| Who said "Whatever, whatever was, whatever will be" | Carl Sagan |
| Who is the evidentialist apologist? | Joseph Butler |
| Is your faith propositional? | Yes |
| Who came up with the 4 basic approaches? | Aquinas |
| What is the 2 step method~ Classical Apologetics? | Prove Jesus, work them into Christianity |
| Who said "God is that than which..." | Anselm |
| Who rejected the claims? | Hume |
| Who was the first apologist? | Paul |
| Worldview: Cosmos is all that is or was or will be. | Naturalism |
| Worldview: Time is unreal and history is cynical. | EPM |
| Worldview: Authentic person must revolt. | Atheistic Existentialism |
| Worldview: You can never choose evil. | EPM |
| Worldview: Reason is role meaning of truth | Deism |
| Worldview: Oneness with cosmos | EPM |
| Worldview: Uniformity of an open system | Christian Theism |
| Worldview: Transcends Nihilism | Existentialism |
| Worldview: Existence precedes essence. | Existentialism |
| Worldview: Never choose evil always choose good. | Christian Theism |
| Worldview: Whatever is, is right. | New Age |
| Worldview: Incredulity towards metanarras | Postmodernism |
| Worldview: You can become nothing. | Existentialism |
| Is there science in the NT? | No |
| T/F Beliefs are driven by your true values and beliefs. | True |
| Who is antithesis? | Abraham, Montgomery, Kuyper |
| Who is the critic of Van Til? | John Warwick |
| Who said "Faith seeking understanding"? | Augustine |
| Who had 5 ways? | Aquinas |
| The apologist of the Trilemma | C.S. Lewis |
| Rational reflections? | No |
| What argument did the "God is that than which.." quote form? | Ontological |
| Did Arquinan believe Anselms ontological? | No |
| T/F All followers of Jesus are called to be apologists. | True |
| Four basic approaches of Apologetics: | Classical, reformed, fiedistic, evidentialist |
| What Greek word is the closest form of Apologetics? | Apologia |
| Date apologetics first started being used | 1794 |
| Acts 17:22-31 is an example of what? | Example of apologetic address in the Bible |
| Definition of apologetics | Defending and commending the Christian faith |
| What is the most dramatic of the tree of life? | Cambrian Explosion |
| What are the goals of Apologetics? | To show that it is the only reasonable alternative among all the choices |
| Who articulated the "watch maker argument"? | Paley |
| ____ is developed by C.S. Lewis who asserted that Jesus could not have been merely a good moral teacher, but must either be a Lord, a Lunatic, or a Liar. | Trilemma |
| Classical Apologetics: Two step: | Make your case for theism, present evidence that this God has revealed himself in Christ and the Bible. |
| Who said "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed... my theory would absolutely break down" ? | Darwin |
| Who challenged Darwin with irreducibly complex systems? | Behe |
| Who said "We are looking for unity in diversity. I suggest that there is only one explanation for unity in diversity, and that is in the doctrine of the trinity...." | Zacharias |
| Who is Charles Darwin? | An Evolutionist |
| Who is the first well known Christian Apologist in the early church? | Martyr |
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