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| 112642048 | cosmological arguments | An a posteriori argument from the existence of the universe (cosmos) to God as the cause, creator, or explanation of the universe's existence. | 0 | |
| 112642049 | natural theology | A branch of theology which claims that knowledge of God should be based on reason alone. | 1 | |
| 112642050 | omnipotent | A traditional metaphysical attribute of God that means all-powerful | 2 | |
| 112642051 | omniscient | A traditional metaphysical attribute of God that means all-knowing. | 3 | |
| 112642052 | philosophy of religion | The use of philosophical methods to study a variety of religious issues such as the relation of faith to reason, God's existence, life after death, and the nature of religious experience. | 4 | |
| 112642053 | problem of evil | In the broad sense, the problem of explaining and making sense of evil. In the theological sense, the difficulty of reconciling the existence of evil with the existence of a perfectly good, all-powerful, and all-knowing creator God. | 5 | |
| 112642054 | revealed theology | A branch of theology which claims knowledge about God is based on special revelations. | 6 | |
| 112642055 | teleological argument | An a posteriori argument for God's existence, which begins with the premise that the world exhibits purposeful order and concludes that this order is the result of the actions of a divine intelligence. | 7 | |
| 112642056 | theism | One sort of religious notion of ultimate reality. | 8 | |
| 112642057 | theology | The study of divine reality or God, sometimes divided into natural theology, which deals with possible knowledge about God based on the use of reason alone, and revealed theology, which claims knowledge about God based on special revelations. | 9 | |
| 112642058 | a branch of philosophy called the philosophy of religion. | The existence of God is a metaphysical question central to: | 10 | |
| 112642059 | study of God | What does the term "theology" literally mean? | 11 | |
| 112642060 | rational theology or philosophical theology. | Natural theology is sometimes called: | 12 | |
| 112642061 | a priori reasoning | One purpose of the ontological argument for God's existence, as Anselm's argument has come to be called, is to show by purely ________ that God must exist outside the mind if a conception of God as that than which nothing greater can be thought exists in the mind. | 13 | |
| 112642062 | the monk Gaunilo | Who applied what he took to be Anselm's reasoning to the idea of a perfect lost island in order to show by counterexample that something was indeed wrong with the ontological argument? | 14 | |
| 112642063 | They both apply a posteriori reasoning. | What do cosmological and teleological arguments have in common? | 15 | |
| 112642064 | argument from design | What is another name for a teleological argument? | 16 | |
| 112642065 | an island | To what did Gaunilo refer to refute Anselm's argument? | 17 | |
| 112642066 | St. Aquinas' arguments for the existence of God | The argument from the governance of the world.The argument from motion. The argument from the formality of efficient causation. | 18 | |
| 112642067 | What someone calls an invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener does not differ from an imaginary gardener or even from no gardener at all. | What is the parable of the gardener supposed to illustrate? | 19 | |
| 112642068 | blik | What is the term that R. M. Hare uses instead of the term "assertion"? | 20 | |
| 112642069 | in that neither is conclusively falsifiable. | According to Mitchell, the statement "God loves men" resembles the statement "the Stranger is on our side": | 21 | |
| 112642070 | J. L. Mackie | Who developed the deductive or logical form of the theological problem of evil? | 22 | |
| 112642071 | problem of evil | J. L. Mackie's thesis is that through the ________, it can be shown, not that religious beliefs lack rational support, but that they are positively irrational. | 23 | |
| 112642072 | ways to eliminate the problem of evil | To say that God is not wholly good. To say that evil does not exist. To say that God is not wholly powerful. | 24 | |
| 112642073 | fallacious solutions to the problem of evil, according to Mackie | Evil is necessary as a means to good.The universe is better with some evil in it than it could be if there were no evil.Evil is necessary as a counterpart to good. | 25 | |
| 112642074 | The paradox of omnipotence. | What does Mackie call the situation when an omnipotent God creates the rules of logic or causal laws, and is then bound by them? | 26 | |
| 112642075 | dualistic view of soul and body | Classical civilizations created a ________ as an expression of their struggle to assert the ascendancy of the intellectual principle over the givenness of the human condition. | 27 | |
| 112642076 | the pluralist view | According to what view do all religions offer valid paths to salvation? | 28 | |
| 112642077 | St. Augustine | Who does Ruether cite as a significant influence to the Western perspective of androcentrism and the tradition of male dominance? | 29 | |
| 112647957 | True | True or False. Revealed theology is a type of theology that claims that human knowledge of God comes through special revelations such as the Bible or the Qur'an. | 30 | |
| 112647958 | False | True or False. St. Thomas Aquinas said that natural theology provides "saving knowledge"--that is, knowledge that will result in our salvation. | 31 | |
| 112647959 | True | True or False. Although both philosophy of religion and natural theology rely on reason rather than on revelation, they differ in the range of topics considered. | 32 | |
| 112647960 | True | True or False. The Tao and Brahman-Atman both present conceptions of ultimate reality that appear quite different from theistic ideas. | 33 | |
| 112647961 | True | True or False. One of the strongest arguments for the nonexistence of God is the apparent incompatibility between the existence of evil and the existence of an all-powerful and infinitely good God. | 34 | |
| 112647962 | False | True or False. Anselm's argument for the existence of God is an example of a cosmological argument. | 35 | |
| 112647963 | True | True or False. Anselm of Canterbury said, "truly there is a God, although the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." | 36 | |
| 112647964 | False | True or False. Anselm asserted that it was the same for an object to be in the understanding and to understand that the object exists. | 37 | |
| 112647965 | True | True or False. According to Aquinas, every necessary thing either has its necessity caused by another, or not. | 38 | |
| 112647966 | True | True or False. The denial of the truth of the negation of some assertion is logically built in to making that assertion. | 39 | |
| 112647967 | False | True or False. R. M. Hare sought to defend Christianity in particular through his arguments. | 40 | |
| 112647968 | True | True or False. R. M. Hare responded to Anthony Flew's parable with one about a lunatic. | 41 | |
| 112647969 | False | True or False. In Basil Mitchell's parable, the Stranger never does anything ambiguous. | 42 | |
| 112647970 | True | True or False. According to J. L. Mackie, a theologian can admit that no rational proof of God's existence is possible. | 43 | |
| 112647971 | True | True or False. The problem of evil, according to Mackie, is a problem only for someone who believes that there is a God who is both omnipotent and wholly good. | 44 | |
| 112647972 | True | True or False. According to Mackie, there are quite a number of adequate solutions to the problem of evil. | 45 | |
| 112647973 | True | True or False. According to Rosemary Ruether, Mariology has done little for the liberation of women. | 46 | |
| 112647974 | True | True or False. According to Rosemary Ruether, in pastoral and hunting societies, normative sexuality was defined from the perspective of male sexuality. | 47 | |
| 112647975 | True | True or False. According to Ruether, classical civilizations have overcome the so-called disabilities heaped upon women in hunting societies, as now mental quickness, rather than physical prowess, has became the more important power. | 48 | |
| 112647976 | True | True or False. According to the Dalai Lama, the whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love, compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness, and so on. | 49 |
