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The Intelligent Design movementaffirms evolution.

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True

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There are two distinct accountsof the Creation in Genesis.

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True

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According to the Babyloniancreation epic, why is mankind created?

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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

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False

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What is the anthropicprinciple?

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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?

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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?

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Enumaelish

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All religions have cosmogonic myths, according to Livingston

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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?

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'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?

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creatioex nihilo

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What did the early Taoists sages mean when they taught that the realityof Tao is "an uncarved block?"

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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?

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All of these

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InTaoism, yin and yang are mutually conflicting.

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False

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Whatdoes Livingston speculate was responsible for the rise of goddess worship inhuman history?

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The discovery of agriculture

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Monotheismemphasizes a distinction between the world and God

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True

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In the Bible, the early Hebrewswere henotheists.

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True

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What did Gnostic Christianity and Manicheanism both have in common?

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both had radical dualistic views of the world

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Howdoes Livingston explain the definition of panentheism?

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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.

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False

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Zarathustrais a prophet from this ancient nation.

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Persia

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God’saseity is best described by which of the following statements?

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God is not dependent on any other reality

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Which of the following terms means the virtue of humaneness?

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jen

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The law of karma is simply the law of cause and effect.

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True

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The Buddha, like the Greek philosophical schools attributed the human problem to ignorance This statement is

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True

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Whichof the following four traditions has an emphasis on filial piety?

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Confucianism

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According to Martin Luther,what was the divine image that was lost in the Fall of mankind?

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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?

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Reliance of God's grace

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Cultivating indifference or apatheia is a characteristic of which of the following?

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Stoicism

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Who wrote the Analects?

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Confucius

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Which of the following viewssummarizes Karl Max's views on the cause of strife and unease in modernsocieties?

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Alienation

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Confucius was optimistic abouthuman nature in contrast to St. Augustine.

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True

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Confucius was optimistic abouthuman nature in contrast to St. Augustine.

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True

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Another word for ritual action in the teachings of Confucius is:

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Li

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What is the root of the human problem in Christianity, according toLivingston?

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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

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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:

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reason

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Which of the following is NOT retained in Theravada Buddhism?

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Cosmologies

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Shi’i Islam condones martyrdom.

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True

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The law of cause and effect in religion is called

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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.

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True

Front 41

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.

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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.

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True

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The following statements all apply to the Taborites EXCEPT:

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they were led by John Wycliffe

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Process theodicy is associated with all of the following EXCEPT:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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False

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The word "theodicy" comes from the Greek words for God and for evil.

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False

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What is characteristic of the millenarian form of theodicy described by Livingston?

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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.

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True

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In dualistic theodicies, which of the following is NOT true?

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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.

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eleventh to sixteenth

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In the modern West, an ethics of ________________ has prevailed.

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Obligation

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Attention to the character of persons, rather than the correctness of actions, is characteristic of an ethics of

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Virtue

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For which of the following religious groups were there four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance and justice?

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The Greeks

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Teleological ethics is associated with:

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John Stuart Mill

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What is Fiqh in Islam?

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Human law based in divine law

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The 'greater jihad" is

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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?

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All of these

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The condition that Amos condemned in Israel was

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No justice for the poor

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Charisma is understood as

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a gift of special qualities

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The mark and authentication of the Hebrew prophets' moral authority were the signs of ________________

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Spirit Possession

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The Roman Catholic Church

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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.

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True

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___________________is generally understood as the greatest of the Roman Catholic moral theologians.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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Who is most known for the philosophy rooted in the teachings of satyagraha?

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Gandhi

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According to Thomas Aquinas, humans can participate in the natural law God instilled in all creation through

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Reason

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Deontological ethics is associated with:

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Immanuel Kant