Be sure to study these questions:
1. What are the two “foundations” upon which Christian theism rests?
2. What is the difference between general and special revelation? What does it mean that general revelation is “a necessary but insufficient” means of revelation? What is God’s most direct form of special revelation?
3. What is a linchpin? How is special revelation “the linchpin of Christianity?” How does general revelation function as a “prod?”
4. When C.S. Lewis says, “Unless I believe in God, I can’t believe in thought,” what does he mean?
6. What are the key beliefs of Islam?
7. What are the key practices (or pillars) of Islam?
11. What term best describes Secular Humanist theology? How do Humanists view the supernatural?
18. What well-known quote by Karl Marx best summarizes his sentiment toward religion?
22. According to Cosmic Humanism, who is God?
23. According to Cosmic Humanism, what happens when a person dies?
28. What is deconstruction? How might this theory be applied to texts such as the Bible?
29. How has Postmodernism influenced the notion of religious pluralism?
30. Reflection Question: What do you think Friedrich Nietzsche is saying in his poem The Madman?
20 October 2008
Study questions for Unit 1 test
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ya, I'm still not too sure about the answers for number 4 and number 3. it's really just the C.S lewis quote that i mainly have trouble on. I just have a hard time trying to say/explain what I think it means. :/
ooh, also, do we get extra points each test that we put up something on the blog or just the first time?
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