Junior Theology Winter Exam

Beauty

The perfection of an object that gives delight when someone beholds it. Beauty has three qualities. Wholeness, Harmony, and Radiance.

Beauty, Truth, Goodness, and sometimes Unity

What are the four transcendentals?

Transcendental

A universal attribute of all existing things, which flows from their very existence and essence.

Objective Truth

Whatever is true whether or not the truth is perceived

Subjective knowledge

What one perceives to be true. This perception may or may not be correct.

Realism

The belief that the world we experience is generally perceived as it is.

Subjectivism

The doctrine that knowledge is merely subjective and there is no eternal or objective truth.

Scientism

The belief that all knowledge comes from science.

Experience, Via Authority, and Reason

What are the three kinds of knowledge?

An argument

A set of statements, some of which are premises which claim to be support/ reasons for a conclusion

Deductive Argument

The argument claims that there is no possibility of the conclusion being flake when the premises are true.

Inductive Argument

The argument claims that the premises merely make the conclusion likely.

Bob Wilson + Arnold Penzies

Used horn telescope and heard mysterious static noise. Unknowingly found the radiation of the Big Bang.

Edwin Hubble

-discovered other galaxies

-universe is 2 billion years old\

-Red Shift-galaxies moving away from us

Galileo Galilei

First real modern scientist who used a telescope to prove that the sun was at the center of our solar system.

Agnosticism

The epistemological position that one does not know whether or not God exists. Ex. Albert Einstein, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Jordan Peterson

We should believe that God does exist

Pascal’s wager says that given the odds we should believe what about God’s existence.

B- we are on a linear timeline where God exists outside of space time.

What is the more widely accepted theory of time: A or B? What does it state?

We can’t know/understand

Why do we suffer?

Jesus claimed to be God. Was he God?

-Jesus claimed to be God and is God then he is lord

-Jesus claimed to be God and lied then he is a liar

-Jesus claimed to be God, but truly believed he was, then he was a lunatic

What is C.S. Lewis’ Trilemma?

-image of a crucified man

-burn marks from a fire in 1532

-presence of human blood type (AB+)

-bloody whip marks on the back

-large pooling of blood on the right abdomen from spear

What are some notable aspects of the Shroud of Turin?

Atonement

Make things right, getting right with God

Substitutional, moral, and incarnational

What are the three theories of atonement?

Paschal Mystery, Incarnation, and the Trinity

What are the three mysteries of our faith?

Jesus is a dive person with two natures.

1. Fully Human

2. Fully Divine

What is the Hypostatic Union?

Particular Judgement and Final Judgement

What two events happen in our judgement?

Non Sequitur

When a conclusion does not follow on logically from the premises, often because of hidden, unarticulated premises that underlie the drawing of the conclusion.

Ad Hominem

The fallacy of attacking the character or circumstances of an individual who is advancing a statement or an argument instead of trying to disprove the truth of the statement or the soundness of the argument.

Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning

A person assumes that the conclusion is already true and uses that as a premise in order to demonstrate the conclusion.

Straw Man

When one attributes an easily refutable position to one’s opponent (a straw man), one that the opponent would not endorse, and then proceeds to refute the position in order to undermine one’s opponent.

Eschatology

The ‘study of the end’, the afterlife and the end of the world.

Heresy

A belief or teaching about God and Jesus that has been rejected by the Catholic Church as false.

Arianism

Denied the full divinity of Jesus Christ.

Council of Nicaea (325 AD)

What council addressed the heresy of Arianism?

Gnosticism

Denied the authentic humanity of Jesus Christ.

Epistemology

The study of knowledge

No True Scottman

redefining a group by a new set of standards / moving the goalposts for membership

He doesn’t want to be somewhere where his art can’t be appreciated

In the Great Divorce, the artist refuses to stay in Heaven because?

Lust

In the Great Divorce, the lizard on the shoulder of the lady represents what?

He recognizes Len, a murderer, and the Big Man can’t believe that a murderer could be in Heaven.

In the Great Divorce, why does the Big Man return to the bus?

She thinks she doesn’t have room in her heart to love God and her deceased son.

What is Pam’s problem?

Frank has become so embittered and self-hating that he’s separated into two ghosts: a tall “Tragedian” ghost and a small “Dwarf” ghost

What is wrong with Sarah and Frank?