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Apologetic Midterm
Midterm for Apologetic
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 3
03/08/2011

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Define: Apologetics
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 Apologetics is that branch of Christian theology which seeks to provide a rational justification for the truth claims of the Christian faith
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What theoretical question does apologetics try to answer?
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"What rational warrant can be given for the Christian faith?"---
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what two elements are at odd with each other?
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Reason and Religion
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The gospel is never heard in:
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Isolation
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According to Machen, What has become the norm?
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Anti-intelleutism and 2nd rate scholar
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A postmodern culture is an:
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Impossibly
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Apologetics is a viable option for:
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Thinking people
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Name one of two great apologists in our time, mentioned in the introduction:
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Josh Mcdowell
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Those who say apologetic is ineffective are speaking out of their:
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Limited experience
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Name the two types apologetics:
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Offensive and Defensive
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The fundamental principle of Augustine was:
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Faith seeking to understand
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We believe something is true on the basis of the:
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Testimony of others
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Aquinas states on subjects such as Trinity, incarnation, sacraments, last things these are to be proved by:
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Authority of the Holy Scripture
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Locke argued for the existence of God by means of a:
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Cosmological argument
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Barth's firm commitment to the thesis that God is:
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Wholly other
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The authority of the Word of God is the foundation for:
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Religious belief
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I have found it helpful to distinguish between___ Christianity to be true and ___ Christianity to be true.
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Knowing

Showing

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The Apostle John makes is clear it is the _________ who gives believerss conviction of the truth of Christianity
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Holy Spirit within us
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The task of showing that Christianity is true involves the presentation of _________ for Christian truth claims
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Sound and persuadive argument
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Unbelief as at root a ___ not an ___ problem
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Spiritual

Intellectual

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The problem that tortured Dostoyevsky was:
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Problem with evil
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Kierkegaard puts life on three stages:
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aestheic, ethical, religious stages
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Schaeffer: Once God is denied:
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Human life is worthless
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For ultimate significance man needs two things:
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God and immorality
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The end of Christianity Nietzsche wrote:
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Nihilism
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If there is no God then objective:
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Right and wrong cannot exist
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If God does not exist, then in one sense our world is:
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Auschwitz
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The _________ is in the end unworkable
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Noble lie option
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I have found the appeal to ______ to be an especially powerful apologetic
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Moral Value
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Before we answer an unbeliever we must know what their:
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Objection is
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We have seen that only if God exists can there be:
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Hope
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Infinite cannot be ___ or ___
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Proven

Disproven

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______ is so complicated and embryonic its equations have not yet been stated.
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String theory
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Our universe is just one of these _________ within the wider universe
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Collaping rebounding region
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The most common explanation for the universe is the:
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Standard Big bang Model
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Schlegal said "in some way the universe must have been:
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Wound up
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___ implies the universe had a beginning.
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Theromdynamic
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Vilenkin's model we are still left:
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Wondering
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Dennett's answer is: the universe:
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Created itself
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Name one of the two men in this chapter that give us a good argument for the existence of God:
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Kalam and Leibnizian
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Fine tuning demands:
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Design
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The implication of the ______ is that there exists a Cosmic designer
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Design Hypothesis
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Like Cosmological argument the ______ is a family of diverse argue that God do existe
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Moral Argument
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If God does not exist, objective:
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Moral values and duties do not existe
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Objective moral vaules and duties to exist, therefore:
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God exist
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___ and ___ have to do with moral obligation
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Right

Wrong

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If atheism is true it becomes impossible to have evil in:
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War, Oppression, and Crime
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Once you have understand the material, you will completely:
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Disarm the unbeliever
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Asking for God's cause is sort like asking for a:
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Bachelor's wife
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We are interested in ___ not ___
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Objevtivity

Absoluteness

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