Consequences Of Ideas : Quiz 12 Of 16 - Chapter 11 "Soren Kierkegaard"
Quiz on chapter 11 of The Consequences of Ideas.
- 1.True or false? Ironically Existentialism tends to be more strongly an anti-system than a system.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Existential philosophy has such a widespread and rapid impact on society because
- A.
We inherently sense its truth
- B.
It is compatible with Christian Theology
- C.
It eliminated the middle man
- D.
It ignored class structures
- 3.Which of the following are we not told that Kierkegaard saw himself as
- A.
A father struggling to obey the command to sacrifice his son
- B.
A gadfly biting people to alert them
- C.
A man burning at the state who's screams are transformed into music by malevolent muses
- D.
A clown warning a laughing audience that the circus is on fire
- 4.Which of the following in Kierkegaard's stages of life progression is out of order
- A.
First Aesthetic Stage
- B.
Second Existential Decision
- C.
Third Religious Stage
- D.
Third Leap of Faith
- E.
Fourth Ethical stage
- 5.In Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, the reading says that Kierkegaard discusses
- A.
The dialectic between allegiance to God and allegiance to God's law in his heart
- B.
Ethical relativism
- C.
Antinomianism
- D.
The elevation of the spirit of the law over the letter of the law
- E.
The elevation of the letter of the law over the spirit of the law
- 6.In Kierkegaard's Attack on Christendom, who or what is Christendom?
- A.
The church
- B.
Individual believers over all time
- C.
The mosque
- D.
The Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints
- E.
The state Church of nominal Christianity that resulted from Hegel's synthesis
- 7.Which of the following does the book suggest most emphatically to be true about Kierkegaard's view of truth?
- A.
Objective certainty about external reality does not exist
- B.
True thought and reality can only be found in the realm of the essences
- C.
He teaches that the believer finds truth only when he experiences the tension between himself and God
- D.
Factual information is to be favored over personal experience
- E.
Christianity must be dehistoricized and the "Easter faith must be experienced in the hic et nunc
- F.
With Descartes he believed we are to infer existence from thought
- 8.True or false? For Kierkegaard truth is found in the external how not the internal what.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.On page 157 which of the following are asserted or suggested as true about Kierkegaard's "leap of faith"? (True from his Kierkegaard's perspective not Sproul's.)
- A.
It is the the means of actualizing or realizing one's true essence
- B.
It is the means of entering the religious stage of one's life
- C.
It is the means of getting to where one has the purity of heart which is "to will one thing"
- D.
It is the means of bridging the barrier between Kant's world of the phenomenal and noumenal
- E.
It is to embrace paradox and leap into darkness trusting/hoping that God is holding a net
- 10.What do Karl Barth and Emil Brunner have in common?
- A.
They are both British theologians
- B.
They both reject neo-orthodoxy and dialectical theology
- C.
They are influential contemporaries of Kierkegaard
- D.
They both contributed to a significant revival of Kierkegaard's work
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