APOL 220 Quiz 5,6,7,8
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APOL 220 Quiz 5 Liberty University
APOL 220 Quiz 5 Contextualization and Inside Out
Covers all Learn materials from Module 5: Week 5.
- Which NT author provides us with some of the most immediate examples of contextualization?
- A uniquely cross-shaped approach to persuasion would include all of the follow strategies, except:
- Which basic period does this description refer to? People assumed that God or the gods had created the world.
- For Paul, “ministry” meant a synthesis of what applied to real life situations?
- This analogy was used to describe the immanent frame:
- As Christian apologists, it is important that we understand how people’s assumptions and beliefs are ___________ conditioned.
- To which culture did the apologetic method include an appeal to pragmatism?
- Settling a disagreement is often just a matter of providing enough evidence to support a claim about reality, since all people interpret evidence through the same cultural lens.
- Many of the assumptions of the pre-modern era align well with Christianity.
- Cultural plausibility structures refer to the beliefs we deem plausible because the people around us support them.
- The gospel message is true for all people for all time and is the standard by which all cultures should be assessed.
- Talk of cultural trends and traditions is something that only plagues graduate-level philosophy and should not influence our apologetic method.
- To which culture did the apologetic method include quotes from the people’s own philosophers and poets?
- “Where do competing narratives borrow from the Christian story?” is a diagnostic question from the “inside” portion of the inside-out method.
- “What can we affirm and what do we need to challenge” are questions from the inside part of the inside out model.
- The speech before Felix the governor was an example of Jewish contextualization.
- Paul was a student of Greek culture because he committed to spending time studying their culture.
- This is characterized by an overconfident picture through which to view the world
- Which basic period does this description refer to? It rejected the truth propagated by traditional authorities.
- Keller uses the analogy of stones and logs to describe A and B doctrines.
- To “contextualize the gospel” means to translate it into the language and appropriate thought forms of the culture in which it is being shared.
- Paul suggests that to contextualize is to abandon the gospel message
- Examples of “A” doctrines include which of the following:
- An Inside-Out model for apologetic conversations places the gospel at the end of the interaction, rather than weaving it into the dialogue throughout.
- The logical outworking of radical skepticism is radical nihilism – the belief that there is no meaning – but it is an impractical and inconsistent way to actually live.
APOL 220 Quiz 6 Liberty University
APOL 220 Quiz 6 Engaging in Late Modernism
- The gospel is very exclusive toward people groups but not in its message.
- The lyrics from “After the Storm” by Mumford and Sons reveals that despite the prevalence of religious lethargy in late modern culture, there is underlying fear of death that remains.
- The notion of justice and the desire to right the wrongs in society is an opportunity to counter which cultural challenge?
- Good diagnostic questions to ask ourselves about an apologetic approach to lethargy include all of the following, except:
- While one dominant religious culture used to be given “overwhelming credibility” and seen as “beyond challenge” in the Western world, such is no longer the case today.
- Modern pluralism primarily points to the existence of which of the following:
- A high view of human dignity is specifically an opportunity in which cultural challenge?
- Late moderns have absorbed a cultural narrative that no longer assumes a divinely-ordered world in which there are God-given ways to live.
- Religious lethargy has explicitly led to religious skepticism.
- In response to a skeptic who points out that Christians only believe because of where they were born, it would be inappropriate to point out that such a rule applies equally to the skeptic as well.
- Religious skepticism defeats itself when it grounds religious belief solely in cultural contexts.
- Regarding expressive individualism, the most important thing that you can do as an individual is throw off the shackles of exterior expectations and be “true to yourself.”
- Human relationality and our common sense of community challenges the ethics of authenticity.
- Which cultural challenge seeks to construct its own web of meaning and believes to have provided the significance it needs for life apart from God?
- A healthy apologetic must begin with healthy discipleship within the church.
- Late modernism lacks the ability to provide sufficient _________ for the ethical intuitions of human dignity and universal benevolence.
- According to the authors, self-authorizing morality holds personal happiness as the highest good.
- The human heart is inevitably driven by something that it worships and desires above all else.
- In terms of world history, pluralism is actually quite new.
- Which cultural challenge shows us that within the culture there is a contestability of all belief systems?
- The reality of beauty in the world is an opportunity to counter which cultural challenge?
- By saying they are against one particular doctrine of salvation, pluralists are actually expressing a doctrine of salvation themselves.
- Which cultural challenge replaces sin with sickness?
- Which cultural challenge turns inward and calls a person to be true to their self?
- The everyday stuff opportunity is part of which cultural challenge?
APOL 220 Quiz 7 Liberty University
APOL 220 Quiz 7 Dealing with Defeaters
Covers all Learn materials from Module 7: Week 7.
- Eyewitness testimony and careful research are mentioned in response to which defeater?
- The challenging part of discussing Christianity’s past abuses with slavery is that the Bible advocates a pro-slavery theology
- According to Christianity, perennial questions that transcend cultures such as “What is it like to be truly human?” and “How do we live in a way that leads to the ‘good life?’ “ are answered by what?
- While Jesus taught that He came to free people from the shackles of the world, the flesh, and the devil, the way “flourishing” is defined by Late Modernism blinds people to the beauty of Christ’s offer.
- Humanist philosopher Luc Ferry observes that despite the web of meaning the late modern creates for himself, he is still deeply frustrated because he can’t shake the feeling he is here for more than the acquisition of material possessions
- The scientific method cannot account for which of the following?
- Saying “no” to some desires is not an important part of genuine human flourishing
- Just follow your heart, a result of expressive individualism, best fits in which category of defeater?
- Which of the following are indications that the gospel accounts are trustworthy?
- Whenever someone suffers it is because they have committed a corresponding evil action. Which category does this statement fit in?
- The concepts of forgiveness and justice are highlighted in this defeater.
- According to Rodney Stark and Alister McGrath, compared to other societies and religions throughout history, the Christian faith has provided the best conceptual framework within which science could flourish.
- All the traditional views of the problem of evil claim that, in some way, suffering is meaningless and fulfillment is something we create for ourselves.
- Christians have long recognized that all sins have the same consequences.
- Scientific methods are not based on reason alone and it is not really possible to adopt a theory for discovering truth that doesn’t require faith.
- Many white churches in America have an unfortunate history of hiding their racial prejudice behind political doctrines such as states’ rights and the separation of church and state, to the detriment of their Christian witness.
- Which of these biblical dynamics and Christian beliefs were driving forces in the desegregation movement?
- The coming-of-age narrative goes with which defeater?
- Remember the importance of word and deed best fits in which category of defeater?
- Even though naturalistic scientific reasoning proceeds by assuming only natural causes, it can actually touch on the question of God.
- Which of the following points can be generally made in reference to the failures of individual Christians?
- According to the authors, the story of the crucified Jesus can be used as a response to which problem?
- The logical problem of evil relates to how people understand and deal with bad things that happen in their own lives.
- Buddhism is a prime example of this take in the experiential response to the problem of evil.
- The notion of eternal, other-centered love is part of the response to which defeater?
APOL 220 Quiz 8 Liberty University
APOL 220 Quiz 8 Making a Case
Covers all Learn materials from Module 8: Week 8.
- The gut reaction to the extreme violence the Bosnian Serb armed forces used against the Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre reminds us that morality is
- S. Lewis argues that the divine art of miracle is not an art of ___________ the pattern but feeding new events into that pattern.
- The work of scholars, such as N. T. Wright, has shown that the resurrection of Jesus was a(n) _________ notion with first-century Greeks.
- Who is quoted as saying “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility . . . the fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle”?
- Various philosophers have argued that, in fact, if naturalism and evolution are both true, “our cognitive faculties would very likely not be reliable.”
- Possible skeptical explanations for miracles include that people are lying, hallucinating, or merely wish to experience one.
- Which of the following inquiries about the disciples substantiate the story of the resurrection?
- We are all acting, thinking, and feeling out of backgrounds and frameworks which we do not fully understand.
- According to Luc Ferry, the materialist’s position on morality falls apart when:
- As Christians living in the late modern era, it would be proper to simply give an unbeliever logical arguments for Christianity.
- Which of the following inquiries are considered among life’s universal questions?
- Both natural laws and divine miracles have a common source: the Creator.
- Perhaps the best way to ground morality, as the authors suggest, is to ground it in culture.
- Which ancient historian provides Christianity with historical evidence for the persecution of early Christians?
- Which of the following statements accurately evaluates scientific approaches to morality?
- According to the authors, currently, there is far more of a consensus among scientists than one might expect that the universe had a beginning.
- When thinking about miracles, which point(s) below is valid?
- Only shallow truths can be proven absolutely; the deepest answers of life are beyond absolute proof.
- Many Jews looked forward to a future ________ bodily resurrection.
- Due to lack of evidence, many New Testament scholars today agree that Jesus did not die at the hands of the Romans by crucifixion.
- Which of the following considerations pushed science towards to idea that the universe had an origin, and away from the idea that the universe is eternal?
- Shifts in thinking normally happen slowly, so the fact that conservative Jewish disciples were willing to worship a crucified human is proof that Jesus did indeed rise from the dead.
- Regarding morality, the authors explicitly state that science does not provide this.
- The authors note that sociologists have increasingly emphasized that religion is
- The worship of a crucified and resurrected Messiah was scandalous within the first-century world and calls for an explanation.