CWV-101 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100% CORRECT

CWV-101 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100% CORRECT Human Nature (Anthropology) - Answers The line of study and inquiry that deals with the origins, nature, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind. (What does it mean to be a human being?) Agnosticism - Answers In response to the question, "Is there a God?" Agnosticism answers, "I don't know." Often agnostics will add "One cannot know." Correspondence view of truth - Answers Understands the truthfulness of beliefs and propositional statements in terms of their consistency or inconsistency with reality. Something is true in so far as it accurately corresponds with what actually is. Theology - Answers The field of study and analysis of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity. (Is there a God? What is God like?) Metaphysics - Answers The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality/universe. (What is the nature of the universe?) Epistemology - Answers The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and origin of knowledge. (Can we know? How do we know what we know?) Ethics - Answers That branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. (What is right and wrong? How is it determined?) Atheism - Answers The belief there is no God or unbelief in the existence of God. In response to the question, "Is there a God?" Atheism answers, "No." Theism - Answers In response to the question, "Is there a God?" Theism answers, "Yes." Theism believes in one personal god as the creator and ruler of the universe, who is involved with and relates to the world. Deism - Answers In response to the question, "Is there a God?" Deism answers, "Yes." Deism believes in one creator God, who is not involved in the world. Pantheism - Answers In response to the question, "Is there a God?" Pantheism answers, "Yes, kind of." Pantheism believes that everything is God; God is everything. There is no distinction between creator and creation. God is a term used to describe the life force or consciousness of the universe. Monism - Answers (in metaphysics) Any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. This can be either physical/material (naturalism or materialism) or spiritual/immaterial (pantheism). Dualism - Answers (in metaphysics) Any of various theories holding that there are two basic substances as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of both the material or immaterial. Sole Authority Model - Answers View of the relationship between faith and learning. This views sees faith and learning in an antagonistic relationship. It is reflected in views that prefer faith over reason or reason over faith. One has to give way to the other. Separate Authority Model - Answers View of the relationship between faith and learning. This views the two as equally authoritative and overlapping such that they should be combined to discover more truth. For example, the mixing of biblical principles with psychological theories. Foundational Authority Model - Answers View of the relationship between faith and learning. This view sees faith as a necessary foundation for learning. Each person comes to learning with beliefs and must exercise trust, but that faith provides the foundation to reason, test, and seek greater understanding. Three Tests of a Worldview - Answers 1) Coherence (Logical Consistency - e.g., philosophy & logic) 2) Correspondence (Evidence/Experience - e.g., science, history, data, etc.) 3) Practical (Existential Satisfaction/Ethical - e.g., moral implications and foundations) Textual Criticism - Answers The scholarly discipline of restoring ancient texts as close as is possible to their original form through the analysis and comparison of available manuscripts. Manuscripts - Answers The hand-written copies of ancient texts--in this case the biblical texts--available to scholars and translators Translations - Answers Also referred to as versions. The various translations of the Greek and Hebrew texts into English (or other native languages). Translations fall along a spectrum from more literal translations to paraphrases. General Revelation - Answers The belief that God has revealed or made himself known to all people everywhere through the creation itself. Things like design, order, morality, consciousness are seen as signs that give some knowledge of the existence and nature of God. Restoration/New Creation - Answers The belief and hope that God's redemptive plan includes the whole of creation. The world subjected to the curse will itself be restored. Sin and death will be overcome. All things will be made new (See Revelation 21:1-5). Names for the first five books of the OT - Answers The first five foundational books are variously called: Pentateuch, Torah, the Law, the Books of Moses The Canon/Canonization - Answers From a Hebrew term meaning measure or rule. Used to describe the texts recognized as sacred and authoritative scripture. Special Revelation - Answers The belief that God has revealed or made himself known more specifically to certain people at certain times. Things like prophecy, dreams, scripture, and the person of Jesus are understood to be specific ways God has made himself known. The Image of God - Answers The concept from Genesis 1 that humankind was created in God's image and likeness. While there are various understandings of all that this means, it most generally means that humankind was created to be representative of God in the world and to fulfill the work bringing/keeping order in the world. Unique human faculties like morality, spirituality, intelligence, creativity, etc. are generally associated with this. Four Acts of Biblical Story - Answers Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration Creation - Answers (Genesis 1-2) Important to the Christian worldview is the belief that God has freely created the world and all that is in it, that he created humankind in his image to fill and have dominion over creation, and that he looked up on it as "very good." Redemption - Answers Important to the Christian worldview is the belief that God is working out at plan of redemption promised in the covenants, proclaimed by the prophets, and fulfilled in Christ. Old Testament - Answers 39 books of the Bible written over the course of 1000 years all before the time of Jesus. Accepted as scripture by both Christian and Jews. Originally written primarily in Hebrew with portions in Aramaic. New Testament - Answers 27 books of the Bible written in the decades after the life of Jesus. Originally, written in Greek. Gospels - Answers The first four books of the New Testament describing the life and ministry of Jesus Epistles - Answers A grouping of letters in the New Testament. They are general distinguished between the letters written by Paul (i.e., the Pauline Epistles) and those written by other authors (i.e., the General Epistles). Transmission - Answers The term used to describe how the Bible was copied from the original texts and spread over the course of time. Sovereignty - Answers (in theology) As creator, God is thus the ultimate authority over creation (i.e., his governance). His purpose and will is the ultimate and final norm for the creation. Fall - Answers (Genesis 3) The account of Adam and Eve's temptation and sin, which results in a curse upon creation and the origin of sin and death. The Fall - Answers A theological expression that speaks to the second act of the biblical story in which Adam and Eve did not believe God and sinned when tempted by the devil resulting in toil and death. Christian View of Human Nature - Answers While there may be nuanced understanding between