EXAM ONE Flashcards
Is theology, the study of wisdom?
No, it is the study of God
In its most elemental form, what is the theology the study of
Theology is the study of God
Theo= God
logos= word
What do Stanley Green and Roger Olsen insist that theology is?
Any reflection on the ultimate questions of life that point towards God
Can atheists be theologians?
Yes
What is true of every people group throughout history as it concerns religion?
Every people group through history has had a religion of some kind
What does Millard Erickson claim we find wherever we find humanity?
We also find religion
Does theology encompass multiple disciplines?
Yes - philosophy, literature, history, linguistics, ethics, etc
According to Henry Thiessen, up until the middle of the 1800’s what was theology considered to be?
Theology was considered to be the Queen of Sciences
What does theology attempt to unify and systematize?
Knowledge
How did your professor interpret the quotation by Roger Scruton?
If truth does not exist, then the person who says that truth does not exist cannot be telling the truth
J.P. Moreland contends that these exist among various religions.
Contradictions
What do DeWeese & Moreland conclude should matter in matters of faith?
Knowledge
C.S. Lewis claims that different beliefs lead to different ____.
Behavior
How does Steven B Cowan define worldview?
Conceptual framework for interpreting and organizing experience.
What worldview claims that the physical world is all that exists?
Naturalism
What does pantheism claim about reality?
everything is God or a part of God
C.S. Lewis suggests that _____ usually believe that anything we find in the universe is a part of God.
Pantheists
What is the essential claim of theism?
There is a transcendent and supreme personal bring who is the creator of everything other than himself
What is a claim about reality that is either true or false?
“Today is Monday,” “I live in Indiana”
What is a proposition?
What a declarative sentence affirms or asserts
Can propositions be trivial?
Yes
Upon what does Douglas Groothuis claim beliefs depend for their existence?`
Beliefs depends on minds for their existence
What does Douglas Groothuis say beliefs concern?
Proposition and the relation of those propositions to reality
What does John Searle say that statements need in order to be true?
Statements need facts in order to be true
According to DeWeese & Moreland, this cannot be dependent on sincerity, or psychological certainty, or cultural agreement or anything other than the truth of the proposition/
Truth
What does the Law of Excluded Middle conclude about the existence of God?
There is no third option; either God exists or he does not
Do questions express propositions?
No
According to the correspondence theory of truth, what is it that makes a statement true?
Factual Reality
What is it that stipulates that it cannot be true that God exists and does not exist in the same respect at the same time?
The law of non-contradiction
What does the law of identity say about any X and Y that are identical?
everything
