Consequences Of Ideas : Quiz 6 Of 16 - Chapter 5 "Thomas Aquinas"
Quiz on chapter five from R. C. Sproul's book The Consequences of Ideas.
- 1.This proof for the existence of God rests on the evidence for design in the world.
- A.
Ontological
- B.
Teleological
- C.
Proof from motion (prime mover)
- D.
Efficient cause proof
- E.
Argument from the comparative
- 2.According to the first section of this chapter Thomas was
- A.
Born in Paris
- B.
Almost exclusively self-taught
- C.
Always revered for his intellectual prowess during his life
- D.
An enemy of the Catholic Church
- E.
Part of the scholastic movement
- 3.(True or False) Thomas is falsely accused of separating nature and Grace.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Averroes was a philosopher that
- A.
Combined Islamic theology and Aristotelianism
- B.
Repudiated the idea of "double truth"
- C.
Help Thomas develop immensely
- D.
Borrowed form Thomas to create a classical synthesis
- 5.Thomas believed that
- A.
Islamic theology was necessary to understand truth.
- B.
the double standard of truth was a helpful construct
- C.
Man could arrive at know or demonstrate the existence of God without faith or Scripture.
- D.
Aristotle was of no use to christian theology
- E.
Natural theology was a function of man's unaided reason.
- 6.Thomas taught that our language about God was
- A.
Univocal
- B.
Equivocal
- C.
Analogical
- D.
None of the above
- 7.Thomas taught that our knowledge about God from nature is not
- A.
Incomplete
- B.
Redemptive
- C.
Mediate
- D.
Analogous
- 8.This proof for the existence of God rests on the evidence for design in the world.
- A.
Ontological
- B.
Teleological
- C.
Proof from motion (prime mover)
- D.
Efficient cause proof
- E.
Argument from the comparative
- 9.This proof for the existence of God rests on the fact that every effect must have an antecedent agent that is responsible for the cause.
- A.
Ontological
- B.
Teleological
- C.
Proof from motion (prime mover)
- D.
Efficient cause proof
- E.
Argument from the comparative
- 10.This proof for the existence of God rests on the necessity for something to exist which has necessary existence.
- A.
Ontological
- B.
Teleological
- C.
Proof from motion (prime mover)
- D.
Efficient cause proof
- E.
Argument from the comparative
- 11.This proof for the existence of God rests on the inability of an object to be actuality and potentiality simultaneously.
- A.
Ontological
- B.
Teleological
- C.
Proof from motion (prime mover)
- D.
Efficient cause proof
- E.
Argument from the comparative
- 12.This proof for the existence of God rests on the evident need for an ultimate good..
- A.
Ontological
- B.
Teleological
- C.
Proof from motion (prime mover)
- D.
Efficient cause proof
- E.
Argument from the comparative
- 13.Thomas lived around AD
- A.
1200
- B.
1400
- C.
1000
- D.
800
- E.
1600
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