PSYC 420 Quiz Metaphysics and Anthropology
PSYC 420 Quiz Metaphysics and Anthropology
- _______ can be viewed as a position that cannot be proved but that can be defended.
- What does Entwistle say is a main struggle when it comes to understanding human beings?
- Every worldview attempts to answer basic metaphysical questions about the world.
- Theology is based on the premises that the world is an orderly place in which observation can lead to awareness of the regularities of the phenomena.
- Classical education has severed the development of character from the attainment of knowledge.
- Naturalism and supernaturalism lead to different understandings of the nature of the world and of the ultimate nature of truth, goodness, and beauty.
- The nature of the origin of the world and the nature of source of ethical values and of beauty would be considered issues under what area of study?
- What is the difference between how Christianity and psychology look at human nature?
- How does the cosmological principle differ from what the human race has believed for the majority of its history?
- According to Entwistle, both psychologists and theologians develop theories from
- What is part of an integrative worldview?
- What is an example of an intrapsychic phenomenon?
- What insight does Genesis provide about humans and human nature?
- In the Christian view, there is a supernatural world in addition to a natural world.
- Both Christian theology and secular psychology do not proceed from their own foundational assumptions.
- What is true of the relationship between miracles and natural law?
- From which work are Shakespeare’s lines are often misunderstood?
- If we accept that Christian proposition that the physical world is a created realm. We must then ask about the nature of
- Naturalists believe that the material world exists, but that it came into existence at some point when God created it.
- According to the text, a Christian view of humanity begins with _____ and ______.
- Entwistle talks about what the systematic theologian Wayne Grudem had to say about the effects of the Fall. Which of the following does Grudem NOT say?
- The American eugenics movement arose from Social Darwinism. This movement sought to accomplish what goal?
- Supernaturalists believe that nothing other than the material world exists.
- A worldview can survive without an ethical system with a set of guidelines for which behaviors are acceptable and which are not.
- Scientists are able to avoid making any metaphysical assumptions.
- The a priori rejection of supernatural explanations by atheistic materialists can only proceed on provable metaphysical grounds.
- Character is shaped through what, according to Aristotle?
- Which of the following is not identified as a goal of psychology?
- According to Entwistle, how do Christians view supernatural and natural explanations of phenomena?
- Niebuhr argued that the limitations of our creatureliness should be understood as part of the fall of man.