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Quiz: Apologetics within the Great Tradition
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Nov 7 at 11:59pm
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Question 1
2 / 2 pts
Thomas Aquinas, the most famous and influential theologian/apologist of the Middle Ages, began his apology with Scriptural authority.
True
False
Incorrect
Question 2
0 / 2 pts
Which heretical challenge and battle against it persisted into the Middle Ages?
Gnosticism
Manichaeism
Euytchianism
Arianism
Question 3
2 / 2 pts
Because of the changing cultural landscape and underlying assumptions of the day, it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice the message of the Cross in order to make Christianity more palatable.
True
False
Question 4
2 / 2 pts
Tertullian is considered to be one of the earliest of the Latin church fathers and wrote Against Marcion
True
False
Question 5
2 / 2 pts
Friedrich Schleiermacher is often called the father of modern liberalism.
True
False
Question 6
2 / 2 pts
“Each generation of apologists is forced to think in new ways about apologetics; thus, an apologist in any era must be flexible, innovative, and practical.”
True
False
Question 7
2 / 2 pts
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"Christians deny reason" and "the Bible can't be verified as historical" are examples of early cultural/political challenges faced by early Christians.
True
False
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Question 8
0 / 2 pts
The Apology of Trypho on Behalf of Christians
(c.125), written by Trypho, was perhaps the first formal Christian apology written after the composition of the NT books.
True
False
Question 9
2 / 2 pts
This nineteenth century philosopher focused not on the historical accuracy or
rational proofs of Christianity, but on the level of “God-consciousness“ and social life those beliefs provide:
Schleiermacher
Kierkegaard
Chateaubriand
Newman
Question 10
2 / 2 pts
Empiricism asserts that people must look for truth in claims of supernatural or miraculous events rather than in demonstrable data discoverable by the five senses.
True
False
Question 11
2 / 2 pts
Gnosticism taught specifically that there was a time when Jesus did not exist
True
False
Question 12
2 / 2 pts
Asserting that ultimate authority is found in a person’s own thoughts and feelings rather than in an external entity (such as the church) is defined as:
Rationalism
Individualism
Collectivism
Empiricism
Question 13
2 / 2 pts
Why would “Paley’s Watchmaker” not be as effective of an argument today as it was in the past?
People today know more about science than they did in the past.
Darwinian evolution has greater explanatory power than intelligent design.
People today approach nature in a way that does not view it as pointing beyond itself.
People are reluctant to engage in philosophical thought.
Question 14
2 / 2 pts
In his work Contra Celsus
,
Origen offers a point-by-point refutation against the attack that Christianity undermines the structure of society.
True
False
Question 15
2 / 2 pts
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“Only those with secret, insider knowledge may reach God” is a salient feature of which Early Church heresy?
Arianism
Manicheism
Gnosticism
Marcionism
Question 16
2 / 2 pts
Joseph Butler is sometimes referred to as “the philosopher of Anglicanism” and these three words encapsulate his response to the deists of his time: analogy, probability,
and cumulative
True
False
Question 17
2 / 2 pts
The following are methods that early church apologists employed to combat opposition, except:
Metaphor
Sarcasm
Dialogue
Irony
Question 18
2 / 2 pts
The cultural and religious tenets of Islam did not require engagement from Christian apologists until after the Middle Ages.
True
False
Question 19
2 / 2 pts
Combinationalism argues that Christianity is logical, factual, and livable- thus
asserting that Christianity corresponds to reality while non-Christian worldviews fall short.
True
False
Question 20
2 / 2 pts
The Enlightenment celebrated the goodness of human nature and the value of human progress through faith.
True
False
Question 21
2 / 2 pts
Who came to faith in Jesus not because of skillful Christian witness, but rather because of the implausible and contradictory accusations of atheists and skeptics?
Dorothy Sayers
Francis Schaeffer
G. K. Chesterton
C. S. Lewis
Question 22
2 / 2 pts
Martin Luther believed that philosophy and reason must yield to the foolishness of the Cross
True
False
Question 23
2 / 2 pts
Among the Enlightenment thinkers, who thought that miracles were impossible because they would violate the inviolable laws of nature and contradict reason and that Moses did not write the first five books of the Bible?
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John Locke
René Descartes
Benedict de Spinoza
David Hume
Question 24
2 / 2 pts
Among the Enlightenment thinkers, who specifically believed that humans can progress as long as they are guided solely by their own rational thoughts and individual freedom?
John Locke
René Descartes
Benedict de Spinoza
David Hume
Question 25
2 / 2 pts
Anselm is credited as the originator of which classical argument for God’s existence?
Moral Argument
Cosmological Argument
Teleological Argument
Ontological Argument
Quiz Score: 46
out of 50