Deck 26: Neo-Orthodoxy: Karl Barth and Others

Question 1

Søren Kierkegaard's existentialist philosophy emphasized what?

A) The individual and the role of the will
B) Abstract philosophical speculation
C) Collective body of the church
D) Predestination

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Kierkegaard's understanding of Christianity was developed as a response to whom?

A) Jonathan Edwards
B) Karl Barth
C) G.W.F. Hegel
D) Immanuel Kant

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The following was not one of Kierkegaard's prominent works:

A) Either-Or
B) Concluding Unscientific Postscript
C) The Christian Faith
D) Fear and Trembling

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What was Karl Barth's magnum opus?

A) Fear and Trembling
B) Church Dogmatics
C) Christianity and History
D) Commentary on Romans

Question 5

Barth was which of the following?

A) Parish pastor
B) Professor of theology
C) Neo-orthodox theologian
D) All of the above

Question 6

Which of the following is not a major theme of Neo-orthodoxy?

A) Rejection of liberalism
B) Transcendence of God
C) Important of divine self-disclosure
D) Affirmation of biblical inerrancy

Question 7

Barth was opposed to:

A) divine election
B) the entire project of natural theology
C) the absolute transcendence of God
D) the notion of sin

Question 8

How did Barth understand divine election?

A) A hidden decree of who is saved and who is damned
B) Election is conditioned by the church's recognition of believers
C) God's election is an election of Christ
D) There is no divine election

Question 9

What was Barth's approach to Christology?

A) Religious pluralism
B) Christology from above
C) Christology from below
D) Historically conditioned supernaturalism

Question 10

Which of the following theologians were significantly influenced by Barth?

A) Hans Urs von Balthasar
B) Emil Brunner
C) Reinhold Niebuhr
D) All the above