Knowledge of God's Existence

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Who said that we need to look at the world with binocular vision?
John Polkinghorne
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Which term best describes the idea that we know God through reason and experience?
Natural Theology
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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.'
John Calvin
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What term did Calvin use to describe a human's innate ability to know God?
Sensus Divinitas
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Which 20th Century thinker extended Calvin's argument and said our innate conscience is a sign we are created by God?
C.S. Lewis
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Who said: "Our scientific knowledge brings us no nearer to understanding the beauty of music. From an intelligibility point of view, beauty seems to be superfluous and to have little survival value.”
F.R. Tennant
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How does John Calvin describe the world?
A mirror or theatre for God
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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 Principle of Accommodation
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What is meant by the principle of accommodation?
It is the idea that God reveals himself in a way we understand
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How does Calvin explain why different views of God and different religions exist?
The sensus divinitas has been clouded by original sin
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Why did Emil Brunner argue that Original Sin had not completely destroyed our sensus divinitas?
Because we could still recognise our sin
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True or False: Emil Brunner felt Natural Theology was sufficient to save people?
False
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Who said natural theology was like trying to pour Niagara Falls into a milk jug?
Karl Barth
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Why did Barth conclude that natural theology could not lead to knowledge of God?
Because human nature had been corrupted by the Fall.
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God revealing himself directly to people through religious experience is known as...
Immediate Revelation
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God revealing himself through another source e.g. a prophet is known as...
Mediate Revelation
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Who said: Faith is ‘an act of intellect assenting to the truth at the command of the will’.
Thomas Aquinas
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Who argued that faith comes properly through an acceptance of Jesus as redeemer and only an acceptance of this can lead to true knowledge?
John Calvin
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According to Augustine, why is faith possible?
Because people have been given grace by the holy spirit
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According to Catholic tradition, why do they believe they have the authority to interpret the Bible?
Authority was given by Jesus to Peter and this pre-dates the Bible
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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?
Karl Barth
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