Deck 25: Romanticisms Response to Enlightenment Theology

Question 1

What is Gotthold Lessing's ugly ditch?

A) The gap between scientific knowledge and ethical mandates
B) The separation between humanity and God
C) The impossibility of historical research to prove religious beliefs
D) The collection of false doctrines of heretics

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Lessing's play, Nathan the Wise, makes what claim?

A) Human beings can never know if there is one true religion
B) That Christianity is clearly the only true religion
C) Religious truths must be accepted on authority
D) All of the major religions are equally true

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to Immanuel Kant, what is the chief concern of religion?

A) Doctrine
B) Morality
C) History
D) Salvation

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Kant argued in his Critique of Pure Reason that:

A) the traditional proofs for God's existence are successful
B) there is no God
C) we cannot look for knowledge outside the limits of our own experience
D) morality can be reduced to cultural preference

Question 5

Kant's Copernican Revolution was that:

A) the earth moves around the sun
B) knowledge occurs when the objects of the external world conform to the forms of our concepts
C) beliefs are imposed on us from the external world
D) ethics are grounded in a transcendent God

Question 6

What grounds belief in God, according to Kant?

A) Reason and experience
B) Miracles
C) Morality
D) Nothing

Question 7

Who is the father of modern Protestant theology?

A) Friedrich Schleiermacher
B) Immanuel Kant
C) René Descartes
D) Gotthold Lessing

Question 8

According to Schleiermacher, what is the foundation of religion?

A) Morality
B) Revelation
C) Feeling
D) Reason

Question 9

Which of the following best characterizes Schleiermacher's view of science and religion?

A) When they conflict, we are obligated to follow religion
B) They are two different ways of talking about the world and so do not conflict
C) Miracles contradict the nature of science
D) Science has shown religion to be outdated

Question 10

Christology from below signifies what?

A) We begin with revealed doctrines of Christ
B) Christ was merely a human being
C) The divinity of Christ obscures his human nature
D) We approach our understanding of Christ from our experience of him