Junior Theology Winter Exam

The perfection of an object that gives delight when someone beholds it. Beauty has three qualities. Wholeness, Harmony, and Radiance.

What are the four transcendentals?

A universal attribute of all existing things, which flows from their very existence and essence.

Whatever is true whether or not the truth is perceived

What one perceives to be true. This perception may or may not be correct.

The belief that the world we experience is generally perceived as it is.

The doctrine that knowledge is merely subjective and there is no eternal or objective truth.

The belief that all knowledge comes from science.

What are the three kinds of knowledge?

A set of statements, some of which are premises which claim to be support/ reasons for a conclusion

The argument claims that there is no possibility of the conclusion being flake when the premises are true.

The argument claims that the premises merely make the conclusion likely.

Used horn telescope and heard mysterious static noise. Unknowingly found the radiation of the Big Bang.

-discovered other galaxies

-universe is 2 billion years old\

-Red Shift-galaxies moving away from us

First real modern scientist who used a telescope to prove that the sun was at the center of our solar system.

The epistemological position that one does not know whether or not God exists. Ex. Albert Einstein, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Jordan Peterson

Pascal’s wager says that given the odds we should believe what about God’s existence.

What is the more widely accepted theory of time: A or B? What does it state?

Why do we suffer?

What is C.S. Lewis’ Trilemma?

What are some notable aspects of the Shroud of Turin?

Make things right, getting right with God

What are the three theories of atonement?

What are the three mysteries of our faith?

What is the Hypostatic Union?

What two events happen in our judgement?

When a conclusion does not follow on logically from the premises, often because of hidden, unarticulated premises that underlie the drawing of the conclusion.

The fallacy of attacking the character or circumstances of an individual who is advancing a statement or an argument instead of trying to disprove the truth of the statement or the soundness of the argument.

A person assumes that the conclusion is already true and uses that as a premise in order to demonstrate the conclusion.

When one attributes an easily refutable position to one’s opponent (a straw man), one that the opponent would not endorse, and then proceeds to refute the position in order to undermine one’s opponent.

The ‘study of the end’, the afterlife and the end of the world.

A belief or teaching about God and Jesus that has been rejected by the Catholic Church as false.

Denied the full divinity of Jesus Christ.

What council addressed the heresy of Arianism?

Denied the authentic humanity of Jesus Christ.

The study of knowledge

redefining a group by a new set of standards / moving the goalposts for membership

In the Great Divorce, the artist refuses to stay in Heaven because?

In the Great Divorce, the lizard on the shoulder of the lady represents what?

In the Great Divorce, why does the Big Man return to the bus?

What is Pam’s problem?

What is wrong with Sarah and Frank?