APOL 220 Quiz Cruciform
APOL 220 Quiz: Cruciform Humility and the Holistic Approach
- Oftentimes people have to want to believe before they will listen to reasons why they should believe, since it is human nature to change our beliefs to fit our loves.
- Jesus and Paul were usually tougher on insiders than outsiders.
- This describes the universally shared internal mechanisms that work to produce basic beliefs.
- A fruitful analogy offered by the authors to illustrate the relationship between believing, thinking, and desiring as a holistic approach is:
- Apologetics is exclusively an intellectual activity in which people make a decision for or against Christianity just by sorting out all the facts.
- This is what is used in elementary mathematics and in certain assumed rules for communicating and thinking that seem to be universal.
- The future glory Christians will have in Christ helps us to carry our cross with bold humility as we live in and engage with the world.
- Strong empiricism stipulates that we should accept something as true when it is fundamentally arrived at through inferences or abduction
- Which of the following applies to Unrealistic Expectations?
- Engaging others with humility, honesty, and bold confidence in the Cross are hallmark characteristics of the apologist of glory.
- The biblical usage of the words heart and mind reminds us that we are compartmentalized beings
- By strong empiricism’s own logic, there is no reason to accept it as true.
- Which philosopher stressed the importance of story by explaining that everyone believes a story about their life and about history itself?
- Strong Empiricism fails to account for the fact that:
- Alvin Plantinga stated that there is no argument which will fully persuade everyone or absolutely prove Christianity.
- We can only adequately answer the question ‘what am I to do’ if we can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’
- Sin does not really affect our reasoning structures (e.g. the way we think and reason).
- An overview of the Bible shows that it does not offer much more than propositional statements and rules.
- Humans are primarily:
- Which passage from Proverbs reminds us to first listen and take others seriously?
- According to the authors, doctrines such as the age of the earth and how many times Jesus cleared the temple are among the critically-important core beliefs of the gospel.
- All of the following C.S. Lewis works appeal primarily to human longing and imagination except:
- We are holistic beings who think, believe, and desire.
- According to the authors, if a person rejects God because they can’t understand what he is doing, they are not really rejecting the God presented in the Bible.
- To which model does this statement apply? “Our mind is who we are, our body is merely incidental.”