Modern and Ancient Faith Physics Quiz

The idea that belief is its own justification; that it is a blind “leap.”

False (B)

<p>The confrontation between Galileo and the Roman Inquisition (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One point is of the substance of the faith, viz. to know that it [the world] began by creation, on which all the authors in question are in agreement. But the manner and the order according to which creation took place concerns the faith only incidentally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An exaggerated literalist emphasis on scripture (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Augustine teaches that two points should be kept in mind when resolving such questions. First, the truth of Scripture must be held inviolably. Second, when there are different ways of explaining a Scriptural text, no particular explanation should be held so rigidly that, if convincing arguments show it to be false, anyone dare to insist that it is still the definitive sense of the text.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary concern is with God's relationship to human beings, and with human beings' relationships to each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The denial of the existence of subjective experience as a valid or real phenomenon in the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mystery is what cannot be seen, not because there is a barrier across our field of vision, but because the horizon is so far away. It is a statement not of limits, but of limitlessness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That religious dogma substitutes for rational thought, puts an end to critical inquiry, and simply replaces reason with faith in pre-defined beliefs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The acceptance of the value of exterior proof in addition to faith (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Either empirically, through observation, experience, and the “natural light of reason,” or through divine revelation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mystery represents the vastness and ultimately unknowable nature of reality (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is essentially a negative proposition, limiting thinking to the realm of material explanations and ignoring the possibility of anything outside that category.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The arguments for materialism are ultimately circular, relying on an assumption that materialism is true to justify its conclusions about the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A universe created by God with a purpose and meaning for human life (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers