Questions from Tests (for Final)

Question 1

The Synod of Dort was the occasion for the followers of Arminius (the Remonstrants) to rebut the five points given by John Calvin.

Answer 1

F

Question 2

The ‘U’ of Calvinism’s ‘TULIP’ (i.e., the so-called five points of Calvinism) refers to “unlimited atonement.”

Answer 2

F

Question 3

According to Kant, we can only know “the thing as it appears” but not “the thing in itself.”

Answer 3

T

Question 4

The normative and trans-cultural nature of revealed truth requires that we should never consider cultural factors in the formulation of theology within and for a particular culture.

Answer 4

F

Question 5

“Culture Christianity” was used in class to refer to the attempt to understand and apply normative Christian truth within a given cultural setting.

Answer 5

F

Question 6

Dispensationalism stresses discontinuity between the testaments, whereas covenant theology stresses continuity.

Answer 6

T

Question 7

Adolf von Harnack is widely regarded as the “father of modern liberalism.”

Answer 7

F

Question 8

Arminius argued for what has been called “prevenient grace,” that is, God’s overcoming of the effects of total depravity sufficiently so that people are able to put faith in Christ or not.`

Answer 8

T

Question 9

According to the elaboration on the definition given of Evangelical Systematic Theology, the main subject-matter for theology is “Scripture and all other relevant sources.”

Answer 9

F

Question 10

Pelagius held that the command of God necessarily entails that we are free, such that we are able, by nature, to obey what it asks of us.

Answer 10

T

Question 11

“Progressive revelation” is an important explanatory concept for covenant theology in particular.

Answer 11

F

Question 12

Carl F. H. Henry criticized fundamentalism for its lack of intellectual engagement with and social involvement in the broader secular culture.

Answer 12

T

Question 13

““Progressive dispensationalism” differs with traditional dispensationalism by understanding some legitimate continuity between Israel and the Church.

Answer 13

T

Question 14

On the Augustinian-Pelagian debate, Calvin sided clearly with Augustine, but Luther tended toward a more Pelagian understanding.

Answer 14

F

Question 15

Arminius and Pelagius both agreed that because God commanded people to trust him and to obey him, that it must be the case that people can by nature trust and obey God.

Answer 15

F

Question 16

Evangelical systematic theology works from certain fundamental convictions, among which are:

Answer 16

the Bible has primacy over all other avenues into truth

Question 17

Covenant theology holds:

Answer 17

there are two broad covenants, the covenant of works and the covenant of grace

Question 18

Retroduction may rightly be understood as the

Answer 18

creative ordering of relevant data into a conceptual whole showing more fully what those data are and showing how they relate together

Question 19

Evangelical systematic theology differs from biblical theology in this way:

Answer 19

Biblical theology develops individual theologies of various authors or genres, whereas systematic theology develops theology from the whole of the Bible

Question 20

Arminius, and the Remonstrants after his death:

Answer 20

agreed with Calvinism that humans are totally depraved due to Adam’s sin

Question 21

Followed the Enlightenment shift from revelation to human reason and experience

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Liberalism

Question 22

The Bible is a witness to God’s real revelation, but it is not infallible or inerrant:

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Neo-orthodoxy

Question 23

Karl Barth was the most prominent leader of

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Neo-orthodoxy

Question 24

Intentionally re-engaged the broader culture, both intellectually and socially while upholding orthodoxy and full biblical authority

Answer 24

Evangelicalism

Question 25

Strong emphasis on the social gospel

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Liberalism

Question 26

While it is true to say that all of Scripture is revelation, it would not be true to say that all revelation is Scripture.

Answer 26

T

Question 27

Fideism is the view that all reasonable humans potentially can come to know the truth about some matter through careful investigation.

Answer 27

F

Question 28

The concept of revelation is best understood as the human discovery of truths about the nature and work of God.

Answer 28

F

Question 29

The definition of revelation includes the idea of truth that previously existed but now is uncovered or laid bare.

Answer 29

T

Question 30

The doctrine of inspiration is primarily about the text of Scripture that is inspired and secondarily about authors of Scripture who were moved by the Holy Spirit to write Scripture.

Answer 30

T

Question 31

It was argued in class that Scriptural authority is founded only on the doctrine of biblical inspiration and that the question of inerrancy is irrelevant to the issue of Scriptural authority.

Answer 31

F

Question 32

Paul's reference in Romans 2:15 to "the Law written on their hearts" refers to the transformation of believers as they are re-made to be keepers of the Law.

Answer 32

F

Question 33

Special revelation has a more specific content or substance and a more limited scope than does general revelation.

Answer 33

T

Question 34

To say that unsaved people have a moral antipathy to the truth of the gospel implies that they understand something correctly about that gospel truth.

Answer 34

T

Question 35

It was argued in class that epilusis in 2 Peter 1:20 is best translated, not as "interpretation," but as "disclosure" or "origination."

Answer 35

T

Question 36

Revelation through the avenue of the incarnation combines all the other avenues of special revelation in this one revelation of Jesus as the Christ.

Answer 36

T

Question 37

Romans 1:20-21 rightly supports the notion that unsaved people have sufficient knowledge from creation alone to be saved.

Answer 37

F

Question 38

The issue of canonicity has to do with the Church’s establishing the authority of certain writings for the believing community.

Answer 38

F

Question 39

2 Timothy 3:16 states that inspiration happens as writers of Scripture are "moved by the Holy Spirit" and so speak from God.

Answer 39

F

Question 40

Romans 1:20-21 rightly supports the notion that unsaved people have sufficient knowledge of God from creation so as to be morally responsible for their response to God.

Answer 40

T

Question 41

The Bible is true in all that it affirms (or teaches as true) as evaluated by criteria of truthfulness which are appropriate to the literary genres and intended meanings of Scripture’s authors.

Answer 41

Full Inerrancy

Question 42

The doctrine of revelation, rightly understood, confronts us with the following:

Answer 42

a. it shows us that we are dependent altogether on God revealing what he does b. we have no say in what is revealed, or when, or to whom c. God is sovereign over his revelation, and as such, some are excluded from receiving the truth of his revelation d. a., b., and c. Correct

Question 43

Revelation is necessary because of:

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a. the transcendence of God b. the holiness of God c. the finitude of human beings d. a., b., and c. Correct

Question 44

A key avenue or avenues of general revelation is/are:

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a. Creation d. Conscience e. a. and d. Correct

Question 45

One avenue specified for general revelation is:

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Conscience

Question 46

Special revelation may come through:

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a. God's mighty act b. the incarnation e. a. and b. Correct

Question 47

When it is claimed that illumination is necessary due to spiritual blindness, the term “spiritual blindness” refers to:

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c. the complete inability of the unsaved to understand the glory and truthfulness of the truth of the gospel d. the inability of the unsaved to understand the whole of the truth of the gospel e. c. and d. Correct

Question 48

One aspect of the efficacy of special revelation is:

Answer 48

it can harden further those who receive and reject it

Question 49

When it is claimed that illumination is necessary due to moral antipathy, the term "moral antipathy" refers to:

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truth known but rejected as foolish and repulsive

Question 50

The gospel and overarching truths of Scripture are true even if they are expressed in fallible and sometimes mistaken human expressions of those truths.

Answer 50

Kerygmatic infallibility

Question 51

Whereas the ontological argument argues from cause to effect, the cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments argue from effect to cause.

Answer 51

F

Question 52

St. Anselm is most closely associated with the cosmological argument for the existence of God.

Answer 52

F

Question 53

The feature true of the universe that the teleological argument seeks to account for is that there is something rather than nothing.

Answer 53

F

Question 54

The ontological argument is a deductive argument which, if it works, would prove the existence of God.

Answer 54

T

Question 55

The feature true of the universe that the moral argument seeks to account for is moral sensibility.

Answer 55

T

Question 56

The early church seriously questioned and almost dropped its adherence to monotheism when it became convinced that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.

Answer 56

F

Question 57

The main opponent of Athanasius was Sabellius.

Answer 57

F

Question 58

Arius proposed that the Son was the first and greatest of all of God's creation.

Answer 58

T

Question 59

The Council of Nicea defended in particular the deity of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 59

F

Question 60

The primary advocate of modalism was Sabellius.

Answer 60

T

Question 61

The position that prevailed at the Council of Nicea had been argued by the Cappadocian Fathers.

Answer 61

F

Question 62

"Ontological immutability" refers to God not being able to change in his essential attributes or divine nature.

Answer 62

T

Question 63

God’s attribute of infinity means that God is absolutely unrestricted in every quality or attribute that he possesses.

Answer 63

T

Question 64

The divine self-sufficiency entails that God does not care about or have any real and genuine interest in anything that he has created.

Answer 64

F

Question 65

"Relational mutability" refers to God changing appropriately in respect to changes that occur within his created order and among his moral creatures.

Answer 65

T

Question 66

Thomas Aquinas' "Five Ways" represent early examples of this kind of argument for God's existence:

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a. Cosmological argument b. Moral argument c. Ontological argument d. Teleological argument e. a., b., and d. Correct

Question 67

God's existence can be proved simply from thinking the thought of a Being than which none greater can be conceived:

Answer 67

Ontological argument

Question 68

Conclusions drawn from this argument have a probabilistic level of certainty:

Answer 68

a. Cosmological argument b. Moral argument c. Ontological argument d. Teleological argument e. a., b., and d. Correct

Question 69

It was mentioned that C. S. Lewis was a champion of this kind of argument for God's existence:

Answer 69

Moral argument

Question 70

The "filioque" addition to the Nicean Creed affirmed that:

Answer 70

The Spirit proceeds from the Father "and the Son"

Question 71

A key triadic passage:

Answer 71

Matthew 28:19-20 Correct

Question 72

That Christ was "homoiousios" with the Father was proposed by:

Answer 72

Followers of Origen

Question 73

Gregory of Nyssa was instrumental in the outcome of this council:

Answer 73

d. Constantinople

Question 74

Incommunicable attributes are those divine attributes which:

Answer 74

are possessed by God alone, and are not shared to any degree with created reality

Question 75

Communicable attributes are those divine attributes which:

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are shared with at least some portion of finite, created reality

Question 76

It was argued in class that in the libertarian model of freedom, people make their choices and perform their actions with no reason(s) whatsoever for why they choose or act the way they do.

Answer 76

F

Question 77

The classic Calvinist model of relating divine sovereignty and human freedom holds that God has determined everything that happens so that human freedom is actually illusory.

Answer 77

F

Question 78

It was pointed out in class that the richest OT term for God's love is agape.

Answer 78

F

Question 79

Remunerative justice refers to God’s reward for obedience and punishment for disobedience.

Answer 79

F

Question 80

The love of God should rightly and only be thought of as God’s universal desire for the well-being of all people.

Answer 80

F

Question 81

God's righteousness could rightly be understood as God's own perfect conformity, in word, thought, attitude, and action, to God's own intrinsic moral nature.

Answer 81

T

Question 82

The attribute of God's wisdom could rightly be understood as the application of God's infinite knowledge to accomplish the morally best ends by the best means possible.

Answer 82

T

Question 83

Retributive justice refers to God’s reward to those who obey his laws.

Answer 83

F

Question 84

The attribute of God's omnipotence means that God can do absolutely anything with no qualification whatsoever on what God can do.

Answer 84

F

Question 85

Libertarian freedom, also referred to as contra-causal freedom, requires the incompatibility of divine determination and human freedom.

Answer 85

T

Question 86

Because the hyper-Calvinist model understands God's sovereignty as comprehensive, it rightly holds that there is no genuine human freedom.

Answer 86

F

Question 87

One of the key components of God's holiness has to do with the feature of being distinct or different.

Answer 87

T

Question 88

Throughout most of Christian history, the attribute of God's omniscience has been understood with the caveat that it is logically impossible for God to know the future acts of free moral agents.

Answer 88

F

Question 89

"Something is right because God wills it," is characteristic of Voluntarism.

Answer 89

T

Question 90

It was argued in class that the concept of middle knowledge, though interesting and even helpful philosophically, cannot rightly be supported from Scripture.

Answer 90

F

Question 91

This position holds that it must be the case that either God controls actions performed, or we (his moral creatures) control actions performed, and that it is logically impossible for both God and us to control the same actions.

Answer 91

a. Hyper-Calvinism b. Process Theism c. Classic Arminianism d. Classic Calvinism e. a., b., c. CORRECT

Question 92

Legislative justice refers to:

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God’s giving to His moral creatures standards by which they should live

Question 93

Distributive justice refers to:

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a. God’s rewarding or punishing His moral creatures Correct

Question 94

Grace is best understood as:

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a. God’s favor shown to those who are undeserving b. God’s favor shown to those who are destitute and helpless c. God’s favor shown to those who have not merited his kindness d. all of the above e. a. and c. Correct

Question 95

On the question of God's own freedom, these two positions were rejected as logically extreme views:

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Necessitarianism and Voluntarism Correct

Question 96

Mercy is best understood as:

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. God’s favor shown to those who are destitute and helpless Correct

Question 97

This position holds that the notion of God controlling the very same actions as those which we (his moral creatures) also control is compatibilistically true.

Answer 97

Classic Calvinism Correct

Question 98

On the question of God's own freedom, the position argued for in the lectures was labelled:

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Essentialism

Question 99

This position on the relation of divine sovereignty to human freedom holds that genuine freedom is a "freedom of inclination."

Answer 99

b. Classic Calvinism Correct

Question 100

God’s justice refers to the fact that:

Answer 100

b. God establishes standards for his moral creatures in accord with his intrinsic moral nature c. God judges his moral creatures by their conformity (or lack thereof) to those standards B & C