Deck 14: Anselm, Abelard, and Bernard

Question 1

What led to the creation of centers of learning in the Middle Ages?

A) Discovery of Greek classical texts
B) Granting of land and endowments for the creation of monasteries
C) Desire for higher literacy among the peasants
D) Donations from Emperors

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is the meaning of credo ut intelligam?

A) Intellect is superior to the appetites
B) Intellect over faith
C) I believe in order to understand
D) Credence in the intellect

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which two thinkers are responsible for emphasizing the phrase credo ut intelligam?

A) Gregory the Great and Bernard
B) Augustine and Gregory the Great
C) Anselm and Abelard
D) Augustine and Anselm

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The ontological argument purports to prove what?

A) The existence of God from the creation of the world
B) The nature of God from God's existence
C) The existence of God from God's nature
D) The creation of the world from the existence of God

Question 5

What is the fishhook theory of the Atonement?

A) Satan took the bait of Christ's death
B) Christ ensnared Satan through his resisting temptation in the desert
C) God hooking individuals through their sins
D) The letters that make up Christ in Greek spells fishhook

Question 6

Anselm's innovation in the doctrine of the Atonement was that Christ's death is:

A) payment to the church
B) payment to Satan
C) payment to God
D) payment to mankind

Question 7

Bernard of Clairvaux emphasized what about the Atonement?

A) The Atonement is only efficacious for the elect
B) Satan's rightful claim on humanity was nullified by Christ's death
C) Redemption and forgiveness come only through Christ's blood
D) Christ's life and death were great moral exemplars for Christians.

Question 8

The Eucharist seems to have what implication for theories of the Atonement?

A) The bread and wine are merely symbols of the body and blood of Christ
B) God's grace is available to all people
C) Christ's death was efficacious for the forgiveness of sins
D) God's grace is available only to the elect.

Question 9

All of the following were results of the Fourth Lateran Council except:

A) Doctrine of transubstantiation
B) Salvation comes only for those in the Church
C) Foundations were laid for the Inquisition
D) Mary was officially pronounced "Mother of God"

Question 10

According to Abelard , what is the meaning of Christ's death?

A) Providing payment to Satan
B) Providing payment to God
C) Providing a supreme moral example to us
D) Providing payment to mankind