Introduction Flashcards
Q: What is the main focus of this topic?
A: The type of knowledge Christian belief should be based on: faith or reason.
Q: What is not the focus of this topic?
A: Whether we can know God exists, which is covered in the philosophy topics like cosmological and teleological arguments.
Q: What are the two main options for the foundation of belief in God?
A: Faith and reason.
Q: What do most theologians agree on regarding belief in God?
A: That faith should be the foundation for belief in God.
Q: What is debated among theologians concerning belief in God?
A: The appropriate place, if any, of reason when it comes to belief in God.
Q: What is natural theology?
A: The theory that knowledge of God can be gained by the power of the human mind.
Q: What are the two main forms of natural theology?
A: Reasoning about the natural world and sensing God.
Q: What does natural theology through reasoning about the natural world involve?
A: Discovering God’s revelation in creation through human reason.
Q: Which Christian tradition typically holds the view of natural theology through reasoning about the natural world?
A: Catholics.
Q: What does natural theology through sensing God involve?
A: Gaining knowledge of God through a direct sense of God’s presence.
Q: Which Christian tradition is more likely to be skeptical of the power of reason to know God?
A: Some Protestant theologians.
Q: What is revealed theology?
A: The theory that knowledge of God can be gained from God’s revelation to us.
Q: What are examples of God’s revelation in revealed theology?
A: Jesus and the Bible.
Q: What type of knowledge results from revealed theology?
A: Revealed knowledge based on faith that what is received is from God.
Q: Which Christian traditions typically believe in revealed theology?
A: Both Catholics and Protestants.
