Question 1
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following is not related to “Process Theology”:
David Griffin
Primordial pole
God does not have a consequential pole
Identity is maintained in a series of momentary “actual occasions.
Question 2
2 / 2 pts
Using Elwell’s text, match the following (Constructing a theology):
Paul Tillich
Reformed
Thomas Aquinas
Karl Barth
Question 3
2 / 2 pts
theology from below
theology from above
Trinitarian pattern
Christological model
VanderMolen noted that pragmatism was a philosophy promoted by
Immanuel Kant
Hegel
John Dewey
Kierkegaard
Question 4
2 / 2 pts
Match the following:
Classical Objectivistism
Richard Rorty
William James
Coherence View of Truth
Question 5
2 / 2 pts
According to Demarest, which of the following affirms why the church
undertakes the task of systematic theology?
Millard Erickson
Contextual Foundationalism
One of the founders of pragmatism
Only if propositions agree with other propositions
That the believing community might be edified.
The gospel might be proclaimed.
The truth content and lived experience of the faith may be preserved
All of the above
Question 6
2 / 2 pts
Immanuel Kant restricted religion to the realm of "Practical reason."
True
False
Question 7
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following is not discussed in Erickson as one of the answers as
to the "abiding element" of Christianity?
An Institution (the Church)
Experience
Doctrines
Evangelism
Question 8
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following places a strong emphasis on feeling?
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Immanuel Kant
Contemporary Christian worship
Both a and c
Question 9
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following would not be considered to be a characteristic of
“Modernism”:
strong tendency toward foundationalism
correspondence theory of truth
scientific method was the only means of investigating truth
Preference for personal experience over investigation
Question 10
2 / 2 pts
Two Greek philosophers who greatly influenced the writings of the early
church fathers were:
Cicero and Erastus
Plato and Aristotle
Plato and Augustine
Aristotle and Aquinas
Question 11
2 / 2 pts
Which view dominated thinking from the eighteenth through the late
twentieth centuries, emphasizing rationality and certainty?
Postmodernism
Modernism
Enlightenment
Conceptualism
Question 12
2 / 2 pts
Arrange the following in the proper order of Authority as given in Erickson
(one is the highest and four is the lowest).
Inductive Conclusions
Speculations
Direct Statements of Scripture
Probable Implications
Question 13
2 / 2 pts
Natural Theology is the effort to discern truth about God from from resources
outside of the Bible.
True
False
Question 14
2 / 2 pts
In answering the accusations of "meaninglessness" with respect to
theological language, Erickson tends to agree more with Ramsey than with
Ferre or Hordern.
True
Three
Four
One
Tw o
False
Question 15
2 / 2 pts
Match the following:
Logical Positivism
“Language Games”
Functional Analysis
Eschatological Verification
Question 16
2 / 2 pts
Match the following terms:
Textual Criticism
Form Criticism
Redaction Criticism
Reader Response
“Meaning of meanings”
Wittgenstein
F. Ferre
John Hick
Low er Criticism
Oral Tradition
Shaping and Modifying
Question 17
2 / 2 pts
This individual is considered to be the founder of modernism:
John Herman Randall
John Sanders
Immanual Kant
Rene Descartes
Question 18
2 / 2 pts
Anthony Thiselton applied which theory to hermeneutics?
Verifiability Principle
Metaphysical Synthesis
Speech-Act
None of the above
Question 19
Meaning not given in the Text
2 / 2 pts
Match the following
George Lindbeck
Religion is a matter of “feeling”
Religion is clearly pragmatic
John Hick
IncorrectQuestion 20
0 / 2 pts
Which of the following is NOT given as one of the characteristics of modern
theologies:
Brief Life Spans
Demise of Great Schools of Theology
Few Theological Giants
Dominated by German Philosophy
Question 21
2 / 2 pts
The study of the doctrine of God is also called:
Cultural Linguistic View
Schleiermacher
Liberation Theologians
Experience of the “one great reality”
Systematic Theology
Doctrinal Studies
Theology Proper
Biblical Theology
Question 22
2 / 2 pts
Erickson noted that there were three values of philosophy for the theologian.
Which of the following was not included as a value:
The sharpening of the message for clarity.
Scrutiny of the meaning of terms and ideas used in the theological task.
The criticizing of its arguments.
Philosophy is primarily an activity, rather than a body of truths
Question 23
2 / 2 pts
Fill in the blank to complete Erickson’s analogy: Theology is to religion what .
Grammar relates to language
Culture constructs religion
Knowledge yields truth
psychology is to human emotions
Question 24
2 / 2 pts
As developed by Gabler, biblical theology attempted to make a distinction
between
"true" and "pure"
"historical" and "systematic"
"exegetical" and "philosophical"
"semantics" and "rhetoric"
Question 25
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following would not be considered to be a characteristic of
“Postmodernism”:
Distrust of the efficacy of reason as the source of knowledge.
Knowledge is relative to the knower
Man is the center of reality
Meaning does not reside exclusively in the text.
