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The Intelligent Design movementaffirms evolution. |
True |
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There are two distinct accountsof the Creation in Genesis. |
True |
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According to the Babyloniancreation epic, why is mankind created? |
to serve the gods and relieve them ofburdensome work |
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Cosmogony is mostly associated with the ending of the world and otherapocalyptic ideas |
False |
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What is the anthropicprinciple? |
the recognition of the extraordinaryfine-tuning required to explain our natural world |
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According to Mircea Eliade, what are origin myths primarilyconcerned with? |
putting the believer in touch with sacredorders and the primordial exemplary patterns |
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What is the name of the Babylonian creation epic? |
Enumaelish |
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All religions have cosmogonic myths, according to Livingston |
False |
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Even though it is generallyassumed that Genesis supports the theological idea of creatio ex nihilo, whichof the following phrases seem to contradict that thesis? |
'the deep' and 'the waters' |
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When one used the word 'creation' without any further elaboration, to what form of creation does that person technically refer to? |
creatioex nihilo |
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What did the early Taoists sages mean when they taught that the realityof Tao is "an uncarved block?" |
reality is not to be thought of as an alreadydeterminate order but, rather, a becoming, a process capable of infinitepossibility |
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What is Brahman in Hinduism? |
All of these |
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InTaoism, yin and yang are mutually conflicting. |
False |
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Whatdoes Livingston speculate was responsible for the rise of goddess worship inhuman history? |
The discovery of agriculture |
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Monotheismemphasizes a distinction between the world and God |
True |
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In the Bible, the early Hebrewswere henotheists. |
True |
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What did Gnostic Christianity and Manicheanism both have in common? |
both had radical dualistic views of the world |
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Howdoes Livingston explain the definition of panentheism? |
A combination of deism and pantheism/monism |
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In henotheism the sky god or creator divinity is often too remote to be of any practical help. |
False |
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Zarathustrais a prophet from this ancient nation. |
Persia |
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God’saseity is best described by which of the following statements? |
God is not dependent on any other reality |
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Which of the following terms means the virtue of humaneness? |
jen |
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The law of karma is simply the law of cause and effect. |
True |
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The Buddha, like the Greek philosophical schools attributed the human problem to ignorance This statement is |
True |
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Whichof the following four traditions has an emphasis on filial piety? |
Confucianism |
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According to Martin Luther,what was the divine image that was lost in the Fall of mankind? |
Freedom of the human will |
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Which of the following does traditional Christian thought prescribe as a way to liberate the self from bondage to sin and humanity's unease and tragic plight? |
Reliance of God's grace |
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Cultivating indifference or apatheia is a characteristic of which of the following? |
Stoicism |
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Who wrote the Analects? |
Confucius |
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Which of the following viewssummarizes Karl Max's views on the cause of strife and unease in modernsocieties? |
Alienation |
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Confucius was optimistic abouthuman nature in contrast to St. Augustine. |
True |
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Confucius was optimistic abouthuman nature in contrast to St. Augustine. |
True |
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Another word for ritual action in the teachings of Confucius is: |
Li |
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What is the root of the human problem in Christianity, according toLivingston? |
Our likeness to God |
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According to Stoicism this world is not a meaningless chaos as we might surmise. If evil befalls a person, it is after all, only temporary. Indeed, seen in the long run, it is not even evil because all events are but parts of a larger whole. This statement is |
True |
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From the early years ofChristianity until the time of the protestant reformation theologians perceivedthe imago dei or image of God as manifested through the human exercise of: |
reason |
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Which of the following is NOT retained in Theravada Buddhism? |
Cosmologies |
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Shi’i Islam condones martyrdom. |
True |
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The law of cause and effect in religion is called |
Karma |
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The Shi’i movement arose over a dispute as to whom would be the legitimate successor of the Prophet Muhammad. |
True |
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Peter Berger understands _______________ as having an implicit theodicy that accustoms people to the suffering in their lives and enables them to endure it, or even rise above it. |
Rites of passage |
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John Hick turns the classic theodicy problem around in his negative theodicy, and argues that when we consider the reason that God created the world, we see that a world of perfect pleasure would not allow humans the process of soul-making, to develop into what God wants of us. |
True |
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The following statements all apply to the Taborites EXCEPT: |
they were led by John Wycliffe |
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Process theodicy is associated with all of the following EXCEPT: |
God is excluded from change |
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Job's friends in the Hebrew book of Job, accuse him of impiety for questioning God about his suffering. |
True |
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The _____________movement predicted that the world would end in 1843, and when that did not happen, rescheduled it for October 22, 1844. |
Millerite Movement |
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Theodicy of submission involves the acceptance of a world where suffering is necessary in order to ensure that the soul learns what it needs to learn while on earth. |
False |
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The word "theodicy" comes from the Greek words for God and for evil. |
False |
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What is characteristic of the millenarian form of theodicy described by Livingston? |
compensation for injustice is postponed into the future on Earth |
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Theodicy of protest refuses to accept the injustice towards the innocent. |
True |
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In dualistic theodicies, which of the following is NOT true? |
there is no certainty that good will win in the end |
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This worldly theodicies bloomed from the _____ to the _____ centuries in Europe due to the upheavals of the end of feudalism, the Black Death, the Crusades and peasant uprisings. |
eleventh to sixteenth |
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In the modern West, an ethics of ________________ has prevailed. |
Obligation |
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Attention to the character of persons, rather than the correctness of actions, is characteristic of an ethics of |
Virtue |
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For which of the following religious groups were there four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance and justice? |
The Greeks |
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Teleological ethics is associated with: |
John Stuart Mill |
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What is Fiqh in Islam? |
Human law based in divine law |
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The 'greater jihad" is |
The duty to spread Islam by example, tongue and pen |
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Which of the following involves a totality of ritual directives, moral commands, and civil obligations/punishments? |
All of these |
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The condition that Amos condemned in Israel was |
No justice for the poor |
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Charisma is understood as |
a gift of special qualities |
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The mark and authentication of the Hebrew prophets' moral authority were the signs of ________________ |
Spirit Possession |
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The Roman Catholic Church |
only acts of abstinence are allowed to achieve contraception |
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Livingston discusses a Reform Judaism leader that does not consider the fetus in the womb as a person. |
True |
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___________________is generally understood as the greatest of the Roman Catholic moral theologians. |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
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Who is most known for the philosophy rooted in the teachings of satyagraha? |
Gandhi |
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According to Thomas Aquinas, humans can participate in the natural law God instilled in all creation through |
Reason |
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Deontological ethics is associated with: |
Immanuel Kant |