Religious Studies Final Exam With
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Since religious truth is simply a matter of opinion, considering the truth-claims of any
given religion may be interesting, but it is not very helpful -ANS False
To raise the question of the truth-claims of religion means that I must explore the nature
of truth itself -ANS True
Your textbook suggests that in the "popular mindset" one can find at least two camps
regarding the nature of truth and truth-claims, especially with regard to religion truth.
These are kind of opposite ends of a continuum or like polar opposites. Which one of
the following is NOT one of these positions? -ANS all truth including religious truth, has
some objective source, but the way it is understood and communicated is usually
affected by the perspective of the ones making the claim
Your author was quick to comment that neither of the two general positions or "camps"
discussed in item #3 above adequately express the complexity of establishing truth-
claims -ANS True
Religious truth-claims involve the assumptions, presuppositions, and the interpretations
of people necessarily seeing "the truth" through different "lenses." Therefore religious
truth-claims have no objective validity whatsoever -ANS False
The best way to understand a religion is to boil it down to a few basic ideas so as to be
able to compare it with other religions -ANS False
Religions involve many aspects: ritual practices, moral structures, goals, and means of
personal development as well as beliefs or "truth-claims" It is a somewhat peculiar
characteristic of Western mentality to focus on "beliefs" or "truth-claims" as the defining
character of a given religion -ANS True
In the wake of the post-enlightenment era and the subsequent rise of scientific method
has been that the understanding of what "truth" is has been narrowed to "factual" claims
and empirically verifiable statements -ANS True
While religions offer some empirically verifiable "facts," much of religious truth claims
are not empirically provable -ANS True
,The rise of post modernity ushered through new insights in philosophy as well as the
advent of the new human sciences like psychology, anthropology, sociology has led
people to realize even more that scientific truth, empirical truth is the only pure truth and
therefore the only real truth; all other knowledges is shaped by subjective opinion and
therefore may not be considered true -ANS False
According to your author, some scholars of religion suggest that we cannot even speak
of a given religion as being true because each one of them is comprised of complex
history of ideas, events, and people, and therefore is much too intricate and complex to
evaluate in terms of overall truth -ANS True
According to your author, the scholars of religion who contend that religions can be
spoken of as true or not true if one speaks of a given religion as being "mythologically"
true- i.e. having the power to lead human persons to the REAL or the
TRANSCENDENT -ANS True
The truth-claims of any given religion will most certainly come to bear on the actions
members of that religion take toward others-both fellow members of that religion and
those outside of their own faith community. Likewise religious truth-claims have greatly
influenced the society, culture, and the unfolding of history -ANS False
With the advent of modern forms of communication, contact with persons of differing
religious traditions is part of the fabric of daily life and culture in modern, western
countries. but one's position regarding the truth-claims of religion, especially the truth-
claims of one's own religious tradition (or lack thereof) has little bearing on this common
cultural interchange -ANS False
Interreligious dialogue can be described as a formal engagement between followers of
different religious traditions about commonalities and differences among religious views
-ANS True
Scholars of religion are particularly interested in the work of interreligious dialogue with
the hope that one religion will finally be proved to be true -ANS False
The terms relativism vs. pluralism refer to positions regarding religious truth. both hold
that there is a plurality of appropriate religious claims, but relativism holds that there is
really no objective truth, while pluralism holds that there are many differing but valid
claims to truth which can lead to the "real" and the "true" and thus challenge adherents
to actively seek understanding and energetic engagement with diversity -ANS True
Of all the positions described in item #17 above, relativism seems to lead to the greatest
truth, according to your author because it includes everybody and is more consistent
with a pluralistic society in which we live -ANS False
In asserting truth claims, a religion that adheres to an approach called inclusivism would
claim that all religions have the truth, they just say it in a different way -ANS False
, In relation to religious truth, exclusivism suggests that a single religious tradition has
exclusive claim to all genuine religious truth and that truth about God, the sacred and
faith cannot be found in any other religious tradition -ANS True
Religions are internally diverse -ANS True
Most people, though not all of course, are fairly literate when it comes to religious
issues. therefore public debates and media discussions of religion are usually well-
grounded -ANS False
Religions are historically consistent from one generation to the next. therefore, once a
religion forms a particular doctrine, it will never change -ANS False
Although they did it in the past, today religions have little effect on the public life and
culture in which they exist. today religion is a completely private matter -ANS False
Most religions, though not all of them, are historically diverse -ANS True
Currently the relationship between science and religion remains as it always has been--
conflicted and even combative. efforts to reconcile these two disciplines seem to never
get off the ground, even though it would be helpful for each of them and for the wider
culture in which their scholarship is done -ANS False
The tools of philosophy (understood as critical reflection on worldviews) would
necessarily have to be employed in this process of putting science and religion in
dialogue with each other -ANS True
A noetic structure refers to -ANS the entire content of propositions that a person
believes and the relationships among those propositions
Which of the following is not one of the four features of a noetic structure? -ANS varying
beliefs of varying levels of influence and varying levels of verification
Anworldview is a conceptual scheme by which a person interprets and judges reality -
ANS True
Only people who are conscious of their worldview and are able to articulate that world
view can be said to actually have a worldview -ANS False
Often it happens that a person's worldview has not been carefully and critically thought
through -ANS True
Religions assert or profess "truth-claims" about God, the universe, and humankind.
These religious truth claims: -ANS are not provable but reasonable because they are
based on evidence that points to truth, even those it does not empirically prove it
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Answers||Latest Exam 2026-2027
Already Graded A+
Since religious truth is simply a matter of opinion, considering the truth-claims of any
given religion may be interesting, but it is not very helpful -ANS False
To raise the question of the truth-claims of religion means that I must explore the nature
of truth itself -ANS True
Your textbook suggests that in the "popular mindset" one can find at least two camps
regarding the nature of truth and truth-claims, especially with regard to religion truth.
These are kind of opposite ends of a continuum or like polar opposites. Which one of
the following is NOT one of these positions? -ANS all truth including religious truth, has
some objective source, but the way it is understood and communicated is usually
affected by the perspective of the ones making the claim
Your author was quick to comment that neither of the two general positions or "camps"
discussed in item #3 above adequately express the complexity of establishing truth-
claims -ANS True
Religious truth-claims involve the assumptions, presuppositions, and the interpretations
of people necessarily seeing "the truth" through different "lenses." Therefore religious
truth-claims have no objective validity whatsoever -ANS False
The best way to understand a religion is to boil it down to a few basic ideas so as to be
able to compare it with other religions -ANS False
Religions involve many aspects: ritual practices, moral structures, goals, and means of
personal development as well as beliefs or "truth-claims" It is a somewhat peculiar
characteristic of Western mentality to focus on "beliefs" or "truth-claims" as the defining
character of a given religion -ANS True
In the wake of the post-enlightenment era and the subsequent rise of scientific method
has been that the understanding of what "truth" is has been narrowed to "factual" claims
and empirically verifiable statements -ANS True
While religions offer some empirically verifiable "facts," much of religious truth claims
are not empirically provable -ANS True
,The rise of post modernity ushered through new insights in philosophy as well as the
advent of the new human sciences like psychology, anthropology, sociology has led
people to realize even more that scientific truth, empirical truth is the only pure truth and
therefore the only real truth; all other knowledges is shaped by subjective opinion and
therefore may not be considered true -ANS False
According to your author, some scholars of religion suggest that we cannot even speak
of a given religion as being true because each one of them is comprised of complex
history of ideas, events, and people, and therefore is much too intricate and complex to
evaluate in terms of overall truth -ANS True
According to your author, the scholars of religion who contend that religions can be
spoken of as true or not true if one speaks of a given religion as being "mythologically"
true- i.e. having the power to lead human persons to the REAL or the
TRANSCENDENT -ANS True
The truth-claims of any given religion will most certainly come to bear on the actions
members of that religion take toward others-both fellow members of that religion and
those outside of their own faith community. Likewise religious truth-claims have greatly
influenced the society, culture, and the unfolding of history -ANS False
With the advent of modern forms of communication, contact with persons of differing
religious traditions is part of the fabric of daily life and culture in modern, western
countries. but one's position regarding the truth-claims of religion, especially the truth-
claims of one's own religious tradition (or lack thereof) has little bearing on this common
cultural interchange -ANS False
Interreligious dialogue can be described as a formal engagement between followers of
different religious traditions about commonalities and differences among religious views
-ANS True
Scholars of religion are particularly interested in the work of interreligious dialogue with
the hope that one religion will finally be proved to be true -ANS False
The terms relativism vs. pluralism refer to positions regarding religious truth. both hold
that there is a plurality of appropriate religious claims, but relativism holds that there is
really no objective truth, while pluralism holds that there are many differing but valid
claims to truth which can lead to the "real" and the "true" and thus challenge adherents
to actively seek understanding and energetic engagement with diversity -ANS True
Of all the positions described in item #17 above, relativism seems to lead to the greatest
truth, according to your author because it includes everybody and is more consistent
with a pluralistic society in which we live -ANS False
In asserting truth claims, a religion that adheres to an approach called inclusivism would
claim that all religions have the truth, they just say it in a different way -ANS False
, In relation to religious truth, exclusivism suggests that a single religious tradition has
exclusive claim to all genuine religious truth and that truth about God, the sacred and
faith cannot be found in any other religious tradition -ANS True
Religions are internally diverse -ANS True
Most people, though not all of course, are fairly literate when it comes to religious
issues. therefore public debates and media discussions of religion are usually well-
grounded -ANS False
Religions are historically consistent from one generation to the next. therefore, once a
religion forms a particular doctrine, it will never change -ANS False
Although they did it in the past, today religions have little effect on the public life and
culture in which they exist. today religion is a completely private matter -ANS False
Most religions, though not all of them, are historically diverse -ANS True
Currently the relationship between science and religion remains as it always has been--
conflicted and even combative. efforts to reconcile these two disciplines seem to never
get off the ground, even though it would be helpful for each of them and for the wider
culture in which their scholarship is done -ANS False
The tools of philosophy (understood as critical reflection on worldviews) would
necessarily have to be employed in this process of putting science and religion in
dialogue with each other -ANS True
A noetic structure refers to -ANS the entire content of propositions that a person
believes and the relationships among those propositions
Which of the following is not one of the four features of a noetic structure? -ANS varying
beliefs of varying levels of influence and varying levels of verification
Anworldview is a conceptual scheme by which a person interprets and judges reality -
ANS True
Only people who are conscious of their worldview and are able to articulate that world
view can be said to actually have a worldview -ANS False
Often it happens that a person's worldview has not been carefully and critically thought
through -ANS True
Religions assert or profess "truth-claims" about God, the universe, and humankind.
These religious truth claims: -ANS are not provable but reasonable because they are
based on evidence that points to truth, even those it does not empirically prove it
