Apologetics Systems

Most presuppositionalists are seemingly unaware of Aquinas's classical metaphysics, thus they do not come close to engaging in Aquinas's thinking.

Authored "The Testimony of the Evangelists":

Evidentialism is very nearly identical to the third step in the Classical Apologetic system.

According to Boa/Bowman, match Fideist Apologetics to the best choice.

Theory of Truth best matches with which of the following?

According to Boa/Bowman, Martin Luther was a/an

Since truth corresponds to reality, claiming Christianity is true is claiming that it is SUBJECTIVELY true and not merely a way of "seeing" the world through some lens.

According to Boa/Bowman, 'Reformed Apologetics' refers only to Plantiga's Reformed Epistemology.

Jason Lisle was a/an

Match "Faith Has Its Reasons: Integrating Approaches to
Defending the Christian Faith" with its author.

According to the "Positions on the Theistic Proofs" chart, Thomists were distinguished from Evidentialists.

According to Classical Philosophy, Essence/Existence is:

Per the philosophical reasoning of Aristotle and Aquinas, metaphysical truths are expressly knowable from our sensory encounter with the world around us.

Special Revelation is given through creation.

General Revelation was defined as "God's revelation through His creation of His existence, attributes, and
goodness."

Bertrand Russell is an evidentialist.

Whether one has to assume something is a/an

According to Boa/Bowman, Joseph Butler was a/an

Van Til thought that Aquinas held that reason was unable to say much about God's nature.

According to Plantinga’s view of classical foundationalism, which of the following IS NOT part of the foundation?, , , ,

General Revelation reveals God's gospel and will.

Ability of something to cause change in something else is

According to Classical Philosophy, Physics is:

Which of the following is NOT one of the "fundamental aspects of reality?"

According to Boa/Bowman, Clark Pinnock was a/an

According to Boa/Bowman, Classical Apologetics affirms the universal applicality of reason.

In Van Til's estimation, Presuppositionalist methodology was necessitated by reformed theology, particularly the doctrines of unlimited atonement and the total depravity of the human race.

Restrictive apposition or non-restrictive apposition cannot be settlesd merely by an appeal to the grammar or syntax of the text.

The Thomist holds that the whole of reality has a rational structure because he presupposes it.

In Classical Theism, God is substantial existence itself (ipsum esse subsistens).

Etienne Gilson was a/an

Informal Logic best matches with which of the following?

According to Dembski, the most famous theologian making design arguments is

God possesses passive potency.

Van Til confuses ontology and epistomology.

According to Plantinga’s view of classical foundationalism, which of the following IS NOT part of the foundation?, , , ,

Greg Bahnsen was a/an

According to Classical Philosophy, Form/Matter is:

According to class lecture, which of the following IS NOT one of the weaknesses of the Classical Apologetics method according to the Boa/Bowman text?

John Warwick Montgomery was a/an

Concerned primarily with the knowledge of things (substances) together with the attributes (accidents) of things:

"Reformed" refers to that branch of Protestantism whose theological development followed the contours of the thinking of John Calvin.

Cornelius Van Til was a/an

Formal logic is also known as deductive logic.

General Revelation is given through creation.

The Classical Empiricism of Aristotle and Aquinas is the same as Modern and Contemporary Empiricism in its metaphysical grounding.

According to class lecture, there are some theists who regard theistic proofs as irrelevant.

Norman Geisler was a/an

The Classical Realist argues that one's fundamental presuppositions, like the fundamental laws of thought, arise from our understanding from our encounter with the sensible world around us.

Van Til's understanding of fact in relation to "interpretation" and God is foundational to his system.

According to Boa/Bowman, match Evidentialist Apologetics to the best choice.

Van Til correctly posits that Thomistic Realism holds that there are facts and laws that are irrespective of the existence of God.

Whether something is true is a/an

The Classical Apologetics system distinguishes between demonstrating theism and demonstrating Christianity.

Formal Logic best matches with which of the following?

Final causality is one of the five causes in Aristotle's philosophy that are the background of Aquinas's arguments for God's existence.

John Frame was a/an

Which of the following seriously challenged the tri-partite theory (definition) of knowledge with his paper “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”

The fundamental premise of the Cosmological Argument is that everything has a cause.

According to Classical Philosophy, Substance/Accident is:

Natural Theology emerged in the 18th century.

Paley's design argument is the same thing as Aquinas's teleological argument.

Authored "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding":

Supported granting civil rights to Jews :

Which of the following is NOT a use of the term 'Realism' discussed in class?

Dr. Howe loves to describe worldview using the eyeglass simile.

According to Boa/Bowman, match Classical Apologetics to the best choice.

A Thomist uses Rom. 1:20, which says the establishment of theism itself is based precisely upon our encounter with the sensible world which itself is the starting point of all "facts" that enter the human intellect.

"The order of knowing" is the same thing as the "the order of being".

In the classical tradition of Aristotle and Aquinas, knowing has to do with being. Epistemology reduces to metaphysics.

According to class lecture, which of the following WAS NOT part of the legacy of Cornelius Van Til?

According to Plantinga’s view, which of the following IS NOT one of the conditions for warrant?

Ability of something to undergo change inasmuch as it possesses metaphysical potency is

Aquinas employs Aristotle's final causality in his argument for God's existence.

Thomas Reid identified the faulty principle underlying Hume's philosophy as rationalism - the belief that all knowledge had to be justified by reason, or reasoning.

Evidentialism underestimates the human factor.

According to Boa/Bowman, which of the following IS NOT something critics express concern about Classical Apologetics?

Aimed his apologetic efforts primarily against the Deists:

According to Boa/Bowman, match Reformed Apologetics to the best choice.

According to class lecture, there are some theists who regard theistic proofs as irrelevant.

Edward John Carnell was a/an

Neo-orthodoxy holds to Natural Theology.

Presuppositionalists repudiate Natural Theology.

"Autonomous" is a presuppositionalist talking point that has little to nothing to do with a conscientious philosophical examination of the dispute over the Classical theory of knowledge.

According to Boa/Bowman, Richard Swinburne was a/an

According to Boa/Bowman, James Orr was a/an

According to Boa/Bowman, Karl Barth was a/an

Match "Classical: A Rational Defense of the Christian Faith and a
Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics" with its author.

The notion of "fact" is a point of contention between Presuppositionalism and all other apologetic.

According to Aquinas, knowledge begins in the senses and is completed in the intellect.

Which of the following is NOT revealed in General Revelation.

The Classical View holds that faith is believing something on the basis of divine authority.

Historical philosophy categorizes sensory data as empiricism.

According to class lecture, which of the following IS NOT one of the strengths of Evidentialism according to the Boa/Bowman text?

Aquinas insisted that one must presuppose the Triune God and the Christian Scriptures together with the "Creator-creature" distinction before any sense can be made of anything else.

The Thomist regards knowledge as a formal identity of knower and known on the occasion of the knower's encounter with sensible reality.

Deduction can tell us whether the premises of a given argument are true.

A Thomistic Realist realizes that human knowing is first of all a knowing of sensible things and then argues that God is the creator of such things.

Aquinas laid the foundational ideas for the teleological argument.

Which of the following IS NOT one of the standard uses of the term ‘knowledge’?

Acceptance of Special Revelation is necessary and sufficient for eternal life.

Alvin Plantiga associates Aquinas's "Fifth Way" with Paley's watchmaker argument.

Concerned primarily with the justification or warrant of beliefs:

Van Til used 'evangelical' to refer to those otherwise conservative Protestants who have decidedly moved away from Calvinism (as Van Til understands it) together with what that Calvinism entails regarding the underlying principles of one's apologetic method.

According to Boa/Bowman, Blaise Pascal was a/an

That which an effect is

According to David Hume, our knowledge rests upon the ontological Trinity as its presupposition.

According to Boa/Bowman, Søren Kierkegaard was a/an

Potency is the power or capacity or possibility to be actual or real.

Joseph Owens was a/an

Authored "The Reasonableness of Christianity as
Delivered in the Scriptures":

According to class lecture, no atheists think the theistic proofs are relevant.

Gary Habermas was a/an

Epistimological Evidentialism is synonymous with the Evidentialism we discussed in class.

Within the classical Thomistic tradition, reason and logic are synonymous.

Authored "The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection
of Jesus":

Apologetics serves as pre-evangelism for the lost and strengthens the saved.

When Aquinas says that God is pure actuality and has no potential, he means God has no passive potential.

Authored "Elements of Logic" :

K. Scott Oliphant was a/an

According to K. Scott Oliphint, 'Presuppositional' should be replaced with 'Covenantal'.

Informal logic focuses on methods and processes.

According to Classical Philosophy, Act/Potency is:

The presuppositionalist may sometimes refer to his method as a transcendental argument because the presupposition of the Triune God and the Christian Scriptures are "transcendentally necessary" for knowledge.

A deductive argument leads to the certainty of the conclusion.

Described Scholasticism of his as as "perplexed with
obscure terms and useless questions":

Realism maintains that there is a reality external to us as knowers.

According to class lecture, in "Defining Apologetics" which of the following IS NOT one of the questions of apologetics?

Test of Truth best matches with which of the following?

Concerned primarily with the knowledge of experiences/appearances; qualities/properties; ideas/perceiving; sensations/phenomena:

It is rare for the philosophical and apologetical literature to equate or connect Aquinas's and Paley's
arguments.

Geisler, Sprole, and other Classical apologists hold that miracles presuppose theism.

English translations of Aristotle and Aquinas regard a body of knowledge or an area of study with regard to its first principles or causes as a science.

Jeffrey Johnson is seemingly unaware of the difference between natural science and a philosophy of nature.

Empiricism best matches with which of the following?

Francis Schaeffer was a/an

The logical "form" of an argument is always crucial to the content of the argument's premises.

That by which an effect is

J. Gresham Machen left Princeton to form Westminster Theological Seminary.

Phenomenological language is also known as the language of disappearance.

A necessary condition is 

According to Classical Philosophy, Biology is:

An inductive argument leads to the probability of the conclusion.