Worldview 2 Quizzes

This view of the work of Christ maintains that our sin was transferred to Jesus and his righteousness is transferred to us.

Christ as Atonement for Sin

This model of the work of Christ is portrayed in C. S. Lewis's, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Christus Victor

According to Cosgrove, Christian faith does not make claims that are testable.

False

According to Cosgrove, Christians should not be "humanists."

False

According to Cosgrove, a human person is not created in the image of God, but by one's individual choice and experience.

False

According to Cosgrove, atheistic existentialism accepts that human beings are merely complex biological machines without free will.

False

According to Cosgrove, atheistic existentialism is superior to secular humanism because it is able to give an adequate account for human personhood.

False

According to Cosgrove, it is a mistake to think that "all truth is God's truth."

False

According to Cosgrove, modern neuroscience has proven that free will is an illusion.

False

According to Cosgrove, modern neuroscience has proven that humans are merely biological machines.

False

According to Cosgrove, pantheism accepts the reality of the material world, but asserts that the spiritual realm is superior in value.

False

According to Cosgrove, since no one's worldview is perfect, we should not expect a worldview to be logically consistent.

False

According to Cosgrove, the Bible is the only source of knowledge which comes from God.

False

According to Cosgrove, the New Age movement reduces knowledge to what science can prove.

False

According to Cosgrove, there is no real difference between Christian meditation and pantheistic meditation.

False

According to Lane, one should be careful to separate justification and sanctification because one can have justification without sanctification.

False

As long as one is committed to a Christian worldview, it is not necessary to know what other worldviews claim about truth and reality.

False

Because secularism controls the academic world, one should ignore the tension between secularism and Christian thought.

False

Belief in objective moral truth with respect to human sexuality is either ignorant or intolerant.

False

Contemporary neuro-science has proven that free will is a myth.

False

Cosgrove argues that one should carefully separate matters of faith and matters of knowledge.

False

Everyone, no matter what worldview they might accept, agrees on what counts as knowledge.

False

If one has strong beliefs about something, one cannot be open-minded.

False

One should carefully separate the secular and sacred aspects of one's life.

False

One should seek to interpret data or evidence without any worldview assumptions.

False

People who are suspicious of "absolute truth" are likely to be more open-minded than those who believe in "absolute truth."

False

People who claim one should remove all religious bias in interpreting the world have the best chance to discover the truth.

False

Science is the most reliable way to acquire knowledge because it does not rely on any unproven assumptions.

False

The idea of "separation of church and state" means religious ideas should not be considered when making decisions about public policy.

False

Worldviews are theoretical mental constructs that have little to do with one's actions.

False

Which model of "the integration of faith and learning" does Cosgrove think is best?

Foundational Authority Model

Which term refers to the study of reality?

Ontology

The view that the universe is divine is known as

Pantheism

This model of Christ's work maintains that Jesus bore God's wrath and punishment that was due to us.

Penal Substitution

This theological term refers to the on-going process of being transformed into the image of Christ.

Sanctification

Who said, "An unexamined life is not worth living"?

Socrates

A worldview is a set of beliefs about reality and human nature.

True

According to Cosgrove, Naturalism (aka materialism) entails (i.e. logically requires) determinism.

True

According to Cosgrove, Naturalism has resulted in a loss of confidence in the human ability to know the truth.

True

According to Cosgrove, Naturalism is unable to provide an adequate basis for moral decisions.

True

According to Cosgrove, Naturalism's rejection of the supernatural is the result of circular reasoning.

True

According to Cosgrove, New Age teaching claims that all human problems are the result of our ignorance of our true potential.

True

According to Cosgrove, all worldviews should be tested.

True

According to Cosgrove, atheistic existentialism asserts one should seek to create meaning and value where there is none.

True

According to Cosgrove, atheistic existentialism asserts that one does not really become human until one starts making conscious choices with one's freedom.

True

According to Cosgrove, atheistic existentialism reduces "good" and "value" to making a choice.

True

According to Cosgrove, atheistic existentialism resulted from attempts to deal with the consequences of atheistic naturalism.

True

According to Cosgrove, atheistic existentialists redefine human nature.

True

According to Cosgrove, for the pantheist, oneness with the universe requires the loss of self and ego boundaries.

True

According to Cosgrove, in the New Age movement one's inner feelings determine whether something is morally right or wrong.

True

According to Cosgrove, is atheism is true, then morality is reduced to "is = ought."

True

According to Cosgrove, once universities abandoned the Christian worldview, the idea of a unity of truth was lost.

True

According to Cosgrove, one should accept that either humans have been "overbuilt for the world" or "the world is bigger than the natural realm."

True

According to Cosgrove, panpsychism is another name for pantheistic monism.

True

According to Cosgrove, pantheism asserts there is no real "you" or "I."

True

According to Cosgrove, pantheism goes beyond categories of good and evil, so there is no basis for ethics.

True

According to Cosgrove, postmodern thought is associated with the full implications of relativism.

True

According to Cosgrove, postmodern thought questions whether anyone could ever know any universal truth.

True

According to Cosgrove, science developed within Western culture because it was dominated by a Christian worldview.

True

According to Cosgrove, secular humanism claims the universe is only matter, but humans are more than mere matter.

True

According to Cosgrove, secular humanism fails the test of logical consistency.

True

According to Cosgrove, secular humanism is a version of atheistic naturalism.

True

According to Cosgrove, secular humanism is less intellectually credible than atheistic existentialism.

True

According to Cosgrove, the Bible is a source of knowledge in areas of importance to human life like human personality, sexuality, crime and punishment, etc.

True

According to Cosgrove, the Christian worldview was instrumental in the development of European universities.

True

According to Cosgrove, the New Age movement is the "street" version of an unlivable pantheistic worldview.

True

According to Cosgrove, the end result of a naturalistic worldview is the demeaning of humankind.

True

According to Cosgrove, the modern age (or modernism) has come to mean agnosticism and relativism.

True

According to Cosgrove, the positive approach to atheistic existentialism asserts one should live in ways that fulfill one's deepest desires, even though it does not matter whether one does so.

True

According to Cosgrove, the trial of Galileo does not support the claim that religious faith was a major impediment to the rise of science.

True

All thinking begins with foundational assumptions.

True

Cosgrove thinks faith should affect learning and learning should affect faith.

True

Cosgrove thinks it is appropriate to use a Christian worldview as a filter to help one evaluate whatever subject matter one is studying.

True

If one desires to be wise, it is important to learn about other major worldviews.

True

It can be dangerous or harmful to ignore ideas about reality, human nature, and morality.

True

It is foolish for people to ignore their worldview assumptions or to fail to test them.

True

It is important for a Christian to integrate his/her faith with his/her learning.

True

One's beliefs about reality influence the ideas he/she will find worthwhile.

True

People generally inherit their worldview without careful thought or reflection.

True

Some worldview presuppositions are more significant than others because they limit what one can believe in other areas.

True

Studying worldviews is a good way to develop the Christian life of the mind.

True

Without a worldview it would be difficult to make sense of one's experiences.

True

Worldview ideas that were accepted hundreds of years ago still affect us today.

True

This view of Christ maintained that he was a human being who "became" God at his baptism.

adoptionism

Which term deals with questions related to human nature?

anthropology

This view of Christ was interpreted to claim he had a divine mind and a human body.

appollinarianism

This view of the Son claims he was the first and greatest of God's creations.

arianism

Which council was responsible for establishing the boundaries of an orthodox understanding of the incarnation?

councel of calcedon

The view that God created the world and then left it to run on its own is known as

deism

Which view of human nature does Lane think is most biblically accurate?

dichotomy

This view of Christ claims he only appeared to be human, but did not really have a human body.

docetism

Which term refers to the study of knowledge?

epistemology

According to Lane, Atheism is able to account for the reliability of a reasoning faculties.

false

According to Lane, God's grace means "God loves me just the way I am because he made me that way."

false

According to Lane, the "Big Bang Theory" is incompatible with biblical teaching about creation.

false

According to Lane, the Bible does not make any scientific claims.

false

According to Lewis, it does not matter how or why someone does something as long as he does the right thing.

false

According to Lewis, morality is only about rules of right and wrong behavior.

false

According to Lewis, morality is only concerned with external actions and relationships (i.e. how we act toward and get along with other people).

false

Lane asserts that analogies between the human brain and computers are accurate.

false

The biblical view is that the physical world is inherently evil and that physical desires are inherently shameful

false

This term refers to the belief that the soul is a divine spark, which needs to return to its heavenly home and leave behind the body in which it is entombed.

gnosticism

According to Lewis, which virtue includes "honesty, give and take, truthfulness, keeping promises, and all that side of life"?

justice

Which of the following is NOT one of the "theological" virtues as Lewis describes them?

justice

Which theological term refers to the legal declaration of "not guilty"?

justification

Which of the following is NOT one of the "Cardinal" virtues as Lewis describes them?

love

According to Lane, which of the following is NOT an aspect of the image of God in human beings?

none of these

Which term is a synonym for metaphysics?

ontology

According to Lewis, which of the virtues refers to "practical common sense"?

prudence

The view that the earth is the center of the universe with the sun, planets and stars all revolving around it is associated with which thinker?

ptolemy

According to Lane, which of the following is NOT one of the roles of angels taught by scripture?

redeemers

This perspective claims no one can have certainty or knowledge about religious or moral truth claims.

skepticism

According to Cosgrove, which worldview test considers whether one can imagine human beings living in the way the worldview suggests?

test of existential repugnance

According to Cosgrove, what does one's worldview beliefs affect?

the interpretations or of meaning we bring to the accumulation of facts the subjects we take interest in studying the methods we use to study anything

According to Cosgrove, all learning must be built on the foundation of some initial and guiding principles.

true

According to Cosgrove, knowledge acquired through science is part of general revelation.

true

According to Lane, Paul and James do not use the term "faith" to mean the same thing.

true

According to Lane, although humans are animals we have an added dimension which he calls the image of God.

true

According to Lane, good works are a symptom of justification.

true

According to Lane, the New Testament teaches that everyone will be judged by his/her works.

true

According to Lewis, God cares more about what type of person we are than about simple obedience to rules.

true

According to Lewis, different beliefs about the universe lead to different behaviors.

true

According to Lewis, one's moral thinking should include consideration of what man was made for.

true

Lane maintains that if life is the result of random chance, then life has no ultimate meaning.

true