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6. Who argued: Jesus is the only reliable way to gain genuine knowledge of God.
Jesus is fully and uniquely the way in which God has chosen to make himself known.
God was ultimately revealed in Christ, true God and true Man.
Why go anywhere else?

  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Karl Barth
  • John Calvin
  • Emil Brunner

7. Which term describes the idea that Jesus is the Son of God in human form?

  • The Incarnation
  • The Ascension
  • The Resurrection
  • The Transfiguration

8. Which 20th Century thinker extended Calvin's argument and said our innate conscience is a sign we are created by God?

  • Emil Brunner
  • William Lane Craig
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Karl Barth

9. Which of the following was not a 'way of knowing' defined by Bonaventura?

  • The eye of reason
  • The eye of revelation
  • The eye of the flesh
  • The eye of contemplation

10. Which term best describes the idea that we know God through reason and experience?

  • Natural Theology
  • Revealed Theology

11. Who said: Faith is ‘an act of intellect assenting to the truth at the command of the will’.

  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Karl Barth
  • Jesus
  • Richard Dawkins

12. What is Calvin describing in this passage? 'His immensity surely ought to deter us from measuring him by our sense, while his spiritual nature forbids us to indulge in carnal or earthly speculation concerning him...Again, we see that human knowledge is si

  • The Fine Tuning of Nature
  • The Principle of Accommodation
  • The Cosmological argument
  • The Principle of Testimony

13. Who said that we need to look at the world with binocular vision?

  • Bonaventura
  • John Polkinghorne
  • John Calvin
  • Karen Armstrong

14. True or False: Emil Brunner felt Natural Theology was sufficient to save people?

  • False
  • True

15. Why did Barth conclude that natural theology could not lead to knowledge of God?

  • Because human nature had been corrupted by the Fall.
  • Because of evil in the world.
  • Because it still needs to be refined.
  • Because of the objections from Hume.

16. Who said: 'There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity. This we take to be beyond controversy...God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine majesty.'

  • Emil Brunner
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • John Calvin
  • John Polkinghorne

17. What term did Calvin use to describe a human's innate ability to know God?

  • Epistemic Distance
  • Sensus Divinitas
  • Semen Religionis
  • Original Sin

18. How does John Calvin describe the world?

  • A curtain masking God's true nature
  • A product of Satan that we must escape
  • A mirror or theatre for God
  • A veil of soul making

19. Which of the following would not be an example of natural theology?

  • The Incarnation of Jesus
  • The Argument from Fine Tuning
  • The Cosmological Argument
  • The Moral Argument

20. According to Calvin, which of the following was not a way humans experience the sensus divinitas?

  • Aesthetics
  • Intellectual Ability
  • The Life of the Church
  • Conscience