Christian Anthropology Quiz: Exploring Human Flourishing

Quiz: Christian Anthropology and Human Flourishing 1.) According to Messer, the “teleological category” points to the reality that humans: a. Should have goals and ends to be fulfilled 2.) According to Messer, The World Health Organization (WHO) has the same understanding of human creaturely flourishing as Barth taught. a. False 3.) According to Messer, ___ is the “fulfillment of some penultimate human goals and ends of life: those that have to do with sustaining our integrated, physically embodied lives.” a. Health 4.) Messer believes that the term “health” is an accurate way of communicating all of the aspects of flourishing that God intends for us. a. False 5.) Messer writes that our ultimate end is eternal life with God. a. True 6.) According to Messer, attaching ultimate importance to a real but penultimate good is a species of what Christians call ___. a. Idolatry 7.) Messer writes that there is good news at the heart of Christian talk of sin and evil. a. True

8.) According to Allison, the Apostle Paul was a Gnostic because he didn’t think that what he did in the body was important to God. a. False 9.) Messer writes that our ultimate end is to cease to exist so that our suffering might end. a. False 10.) Messer’s tradition teaches that God’s divine self-revelation is centrally displayed in the person and work of Jesus Christ, to whom the Scriptures witness. a. True 11.) According to Allison, only about 30% of both men and women suffer from negative body image. a. False 12.) Neil Messer says that Karl Barth believed that all of the following are God’s good purposes for human creatures EXCEPT which? a. Living a satisfying life with a people that love and value you. 13.) Messer writes that sin and evil have been overcome by the following: a. No Answer 14.) According to Allison, because of non-Gnosticism, we sometimes view the body as an instrument, diminishing its importance. a. True 15.) Messer believes that even forms of suffering (psychological or otherwise) can be a form of flourishing. a. True

16.) According to Allison, of the reasons why he believes his book is needed to reveal the negative effects of Gnosticism/neoGnosticism on the American society and church. a. True 17.) According to Allison, the following term means “how you think about your body.” a. Cognitive body image 18.) Messer writes that it is objectively bad to be a human creature. a. False 19.) According to Allison, very few people in this world struggle with the problem of body image. a. False 20.) According to Allison, one of the definitions of Embodiment is a field of study that explores how people are present bodily and engage physically in the world. a. True 21.) According to Messer, complete human flourishing is an eschatological hope. a. True 22.) Messer’s first stage in his account of human flourishing is to highlight the Christian tradition that thinks that human beings are God’s creatures. a. True 23.) According to Messer, empirical measures of well-being will, at best, only be proxies for certain aspects of the complete understanding of human flourishing. a. True

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24.) According to Allison, Gnosticism believes that salvation consists in preserving the body through any means possible. a. False 25.) Messer believes that in a fallen world, there is still the possibility for a perfect balance between all human goods. a. False

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