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Systematic Theology 1 Questions Doctorate

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Systematic Theology #1

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Choose the correct answer or answers in the following questions.

  1. Who is the author of Systematic Theology?
    1. Charles Hodge
    2. John Calvin
    3. Martin Luther
    4. Augustine
  2. What is the primary focus of volume 1 of Systematic Theology?
    1. Soteriology
    2. Ecclesiology
    3. Bibliology
    4. Theology Proper
  3. What is the definition of theology according to Charles Hodge?
    1. The study of God’s word.
    2. The study of Gods nature and works.
    3. The study of human nature.
    4. The study of the church and sacraments.
  4. What is the relationship between reason and revelation in theology?
    1. Reason is superior to revelation.
    2. Revelation is superior to reason.
    3. Reason and revelation are equal and independent.
    4. Reason and revelation are complementary and interdependent.
  5. What are the two factors that are in every science?
    1. Facts and ideas or facts and the mind.
    2. Facts and science or science and history.
    3. Facts and astronomer or facts of relations.
    4. None of the above.
  6. What facts do not constitute the science of those departments of knowledge.
    1. Casual relations exhibition and internal relations.
    2. Astronomy chronological order, or consistency.
    3. Astronomy, chemistry or history.
    4. A and B
  7. The bible contains the truth that theologian has to?
    1. Collect, authenticate, arrange and exhibit
    2. Authenticate, exhibit determine, and collect
    3. Arrange, collect vindicate and exhibit.
    4. Neither A nor C
  8. Why not take the truths as God has seen fit to reveal them, and thus save ourselves the trouble of showing their relation and harmony?
    1. It cannot be alone.
    2. It is possible.
    3. It can be done.
    4. Both A and B
  9. Finish this statement, what is true of other sciences?
    1. Its true of theology.
    2. Its never true about theology.
    3. Never able to be true of theology.
    4. None of the above.
  10. The facts of the Bible are related and determined by.
    1. Science and Nature.
    2. Astronomy or chemistry.
    3. The nature of God and his creatures.
    4. Neither A nor C.
  11. Every science has its own method; therefore, modern literature abounds its works on?
    1. Chemistry
    2. Theology
    3. Methodology
    4. None of the above.
  12. Tick all that is correct in relation to the speculative method.
    1. Determine what is and what must be.
    2. There are two general forms in which this speculative method has been applied to Theology.
    3. It decides on all truth or determines on what is true
    4. None of the above.
  13. According to Charles Hodge, The Deistic and the Rationalistic form firstly?
    1. Rejects any source of knowledge of divine things than what is found in nature and the constitution of the human mind.
    2. Accepts any source of knowledge of divine things and the constitution of human than what is found in nature.
    3. Neither accepts nor rejects any source of knowledge
    4. Both A and C.
  14. Hodge state that the Dogmatic form is:
    1. Not a supernatural divine revelation.
    2. The method is adopted by those who admit a supernatural divine revelation.
    3. Is assumes certain metaphysical and moral axions.
    4. A and C
  15. What statement makes Transcendentalist in the wide sense Rationalist?
    1. Philosophy
    2. They both admit, of, no higher source of truth other than reason.
    3. The explanation and demonstration of no doctrines of revelation.
    4. They both demonstrate and both admit phil0sophy.
  16. The mystical method has been used with greater latitude of meaning than.
    1. Scriptures
    2. Mysticism
    3. Independent
    4. None of the above
  17. Mysticism as applied to Theology has assumed two principal forms they are.
    1. Supernatural and natural
    2. Knowledge and Supernatural
    3. Mystics and natural
    4. All of the above.
  18. What are the consequences of the mystical method.
    1. That there are no such things as revelation and inspiration.
    2. Revelation and inspiration are supernatural.
    3. The bible has fallible authority in matters of the doctrine.
    4. None of the above.
  19. The bible has no in matters of doctrine.
  20. Christianity therefore, neither consists in a of doctrines, nor does it contain any such , it is a life, an , a state.
  21. The inductive method is so called because it agrees in everything with the as applied to the .

    22. Choose The Correct Sentence that Applies to these questions.

  22. The man of science comes to the study of nature with certain assumptions.
    1. He assumes the trustworthiness of his sense perception.
    2. He must also assume the trustworthiness of his mental operations.
    3. He must also rely on the certainty of those truths, which are not learned from experience, of our nature.
    4. All of the above.
  23. What is the duty of the Christian Theologian according to Charls Hodge.
    1. To ascertain, collect and combined all the facts which God has reveled concerning himself and our relation to him.
    2. To ascertain and collect fact of nature.
    3. Collect and combine all facts that God as revealed concerning himself.
    4. None of the Above.
  24. Almost all false theories in science and false doctrines in theology are due in a great degree to?
    1. Misbelief as to matters of fact.
    2. Mistakes as to matters of facts.
    3. Miscommunication as to matters of fact.
    4. None of the above.
  25. What are the reasons, Theologian must be guided by the same rules in the collection of facts.
    1. This collection must be made with diligence and care.
    2. The collection of facts must not only be carefully conducted, but also comprehensive, and if possible exhaustive.
    3. Both A and B
    4. Neither A nor B.
  26. What does Anthropology teach?
    1. That the soul has no individuality and no activity without a body.
    2. We must take the facts of the bible as they are and construct our system so as to embrace them in their integrity.
    3. None of the above.
    4. Both the above are correct.
  27. Necessity of a complete Induction of facts to justify our doctrinal conclusion clearly stated.
    1. We must be honest here, as the true student of nature is honest in his induction.
    2. The truths of religion are far more important than those of natural science.
    3. Both A and B
    4. A only.
  28. What is self- evidently true, must be proved to be so, and is?
    1. Never recognized in the Bible as true.
    2. Sometimes recognized in the bible as true.
    3. Both A and B
    4. Always recognized in the Bible as true.
  29. The distinguishing feature of Augustinianism was taught by.
    1. Calvin
    2. Reformers
    3. Agustin
    4. None of the above.
  30. Select all the correct definitions of Theology
    1. A discourse concerning God restricted when opposed to Anthropology, Soteriology, ecclesiology, in a wider sense.
    2. The science of the supernatural.
    3. The science of divine things.
    4. All of the above.
  31. Match these statement with the author
    a. Faith founded on feeling in the reality of the idea. Fichte
    b. The observance of moral law as a divine institution. Jacob
    c. Faith in the moral order of the universe. Kant
  32. Finish the statement, those who deny that natural theology teaches anything reliable concerning God.
    1. Commonly understand by nature the external material universe.
    2. They pronounce the ontological and theological arguments derived from the existence of the world, and form the evidence of design which it contains, to be unsatisfactory.
    3. A only
    4. Both A and B.
  33. Define the term Axioms of Euclid.
  34. Identify Scripture used for Scriptural argument for natural Theology.
    1. Psalm 19:1-4
    2. Acts 14: 15-17
    3. Acts 17: 24-29
    4. All of the above.
  35. Base on the rule of judgement adult, men are to be judged according to their?
    1. No judgement needed
    2. Works, and according to the light which they have severally enjoyed for the gospel sake .
    3. None of the above.
  36. Give the statement of Dr Addison Alexander in relation to Psalm 19:1-4?
  37. What does Ephesians 2:12 teach:
    1. That the heathen are without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Isreal, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God.
    2. That the heathen are with Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Isreal.
    3. Neither A nor B
    4. B only
  38. Match those on the left with the correct answer on the right.
    a. Science concerned with facts of nature, has several departments eg. Mathematic, chemistry Theology Proper
    b. Includes the origin and nature of man, his original state and probation his fall the nature of sin. Anthropology
    c. Which includes the origin and nature of man, his original state and probation his fall. Christian Theology
    d. Including all the Bible teaches of being and attributes of God of the three-fold personality of the Godhead, on that the father, son and spirit are distinct persons the same in substance and equal power and glory. Theology Proper
    e. Includes the purpose or plan of God in reference to the salvation of man. Eschatology
    f. That is the doctrines which concern the state of the soul after death. Soteriology
  39. a. Define Rationalism using the definition in the passage. b. Define Theism.
  40. Define Pantheistic Philosophy.
  41. List and explain the forms of rationalism.
  42. Naturalism is defined as:
  43. Choose the statements that reflect refutation of Rationalism.
    1. That it is founded upon a false principle.
    2. Assumes that the human intelligence is the measure of all truth.
    3. It destroys the distinction between faith and knowledge, which all men and all ages admit.
    4. All the above.
  44. Lord Herbert taught that all religion consists in the acknowledgement of truths select all that applies.
    1. The existence of God.
    2. The dependence of man on God, and his obligation to reverence him.
    3. Piety consists in the harmony of human faculties.
    4. All the above.
  45. Match the names of Theologians with the correct research that they worked on in 1696.
    a. Toland Materialist
    b. Hobbes Characteristics
    c. Lord Shafteesbury Pantheist
  46. Explain Dogmatism or the Third form of Rationalism.
  47. Define Prerogative.
  48. Define Anathema:
  49. State with reason why Philosophy and Theology occupy common ground.
  50. What is the meaning of the words Enthusiasm and Mysticism, according to Charles Hodge.?
  51. Match the theory with the definition
    i. Skepticism The practice of family or pursuing ideals especially unrealistically.
    ii. Sensationalism Doubt as the truth of something.
    iii. Idealism The use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy, in order to provoke public interest or excitement.
  52. The divergent of Mysticism and Montanism stated;
    1. Mysticism was directed to the inner life; Montanism to the outward.
    2. Montanism was directed to the inner life and mysticism to the outward.
    3. Montanism and mysticism are to the outward.
    4. none of the above.
  53. Who was the father of mysticism in A.D. 523 in the Christian church.
    1. Clement Alexandrinus
    2. Dionysius the Areopagite
    3. A & B only
    4. Neither A nor B .
  54. What do Pseudo-Dionysius called the original ground of all things.
    1. Earth
    2. God
    3. Source
    4. Nothing
  55. Who was Pseudo- Dionysius?
    1. An heathen philosopher.
    2. A Christian minister
    3. A prophet
    4. Both A& B
  56. The Theologian John Scotus Erigena (Irish-Born) upheld those belief.
    1. That reason and revelation, philosophy and religion are perfectly consistent.
    2. That religion and philosophy are identical.
    3. Confictur
    4. All of the above.
  57. Theosophists is classified as?
    1. A school of philosophers who mix enthusiasm with observation.
    2. Alchemy with theology
    3. Metaphysics with medicines.
    4. All of the above.
  58. What is Quietism general character according to Tholuck?
  59. What is the distinction similarity between archetypal and ectypal theology.
    1. Archetypal theology is the study of Gods nature, while ectypal theology is the study of Gods works.
    2. Archetypal theology is the study of Gods work while ectypal theology is the study of Gods nature.
    3. Archetypal theology is the knowledge of God possessed by God himself, while ectypal theology is the knowledge of God possessed by humans.
    4. Archetypal theology is the knowledge of God possessed by God himself.
  60. Define the doctrine of the trinity by Charles Hodges.
    1. The doctrine that there is one God in three person.
    2. The doctrine that there are three Gods in one person.
    3. The doctrine that God is a single person with multiple attributes.
    4. The doctrine that God is a single attribute with multiple persons.
  61. According to the author what is the distinction between ontological and economical Trindy.
    1. The ontological Trinity refers to the Trinity as it exist in itself, while the economical Trinity refers to the Trinity as it relates to creation.
    2. The ontological Trinity refers to the Trinity as it relates to creation, while the economical Trinity refers to the Triny as it exist in itself.
    3. The ontological Trinity refers to the father, while the economical Trinity refers to the son and the Holy Spirit.
    4. The ontological Trinity refers to the son and the Holy Spirit, while the Economical Trinity refers to the father.
  62. What is the doctrine of the divine decrees stated by the author?
    1. The doctrine that God has predetermined all things that comes to pass.
    2. The doctrine that God has left all things to chance and human free will.
    3. The doctrine that God has predetermined somethings but not all.
    4. The doctrine that God has no knowledge of future events.
  63. State the difference between the secret and revealed will of God.
    1. The secret will of God refers to Gods degrees, while the revealed will of God refers to Gods command.
    2. the secret will of God refers to Gods hidden purposes, while the revealed will of God openly revealed commands.
    3. Neither A nor B
    4. A only.
  64. What is the doctrine of creation ?
    1. The doctrine that God created the world out of pre-existing matter.
    2. The doctrine that the world is the product of chance and natural processes.
    3. The doctrine that the world is eternal and uncreated.
    4. The doctrine that God created the world out of nothing.
  65. Write three sentences, outlining the origin and early history of the Quakers or Friends.
  66. What is the Innate knowledge of God means?

    67. Fill in the blank spaces

  67. Men pass from to faith in many cases, , not of course by the of but by the of a state of in which skepticism is .
  68. This overlooks the fact that the moral of our feelings depends on their and not their .
  69. Some Theologians who are unable to belief that the of God can be referred either to the of our nature, or any of reasoning.
  70. Theism is the doctrine of an , the creator , and of the world.
  71. The ontological argument, is designed to that the real of God is in the very idea of such a being.
  72. The only difference between the argument of and that of appears to be merely formal.
  73. equally distinguished as a mathematician, as a and as a , published in 1705, his celebrated of the being and of God.
  74. in his element of repeats continually the same arguments in a form. The idea of the he says is given in that of the finite.
  75. The argument is founded on the of a cause.
  76. The and the meaning of this argument, on the sense given to the words and .
  77. modified Hume’s definition of cause as of Edinburge had done before him.
  78. If we do not find the of our existence in ourselves, nor their in themselves , going back is only adding nothing to nothing,
  79. Neither experience nor science, , justly the of generation.
  80. The of an end to be attained. The of suitable means for its . The application of those mean for the of the proposed end.
  81. No work of human can with the nicety and of the separate organs of organized, bodies for the for which they are designed.
  82. The of creatures, is all the consciousness God has of good and evil pain and pleasure, are of God.
  83. has proved itself to be most persistent as well as the most form of human thought relative to the origin and nature of the and its relation to the . Whose in some form seems to be a and necessary assumption.
  84. There are different kinds of there is the ignorance of the and there is of the blind man of colour.
  85. It is for the to anything of that of which it knows .
  86. It is not for and both admits that God is in fact nor is that proposition .
  87. Knowledge is the of truth. Whatever the perceives, whether or , to be true, that it knows.
  88. The on which and deny that God can be known, logically lead to .
  89. List the principles of philosophy:
    1. That what is given is consciousness is undoubtedly true.
    2. That whatever the laws of our nature force us to believe, must be accepted as true.
    3. That this principle applies to all the elements of our nature, to the senses, the reason, and the conscience.
    4. Neither the individual man, nor the cause of truth, however, is to be left to the mercy of what any one may choose to say reason or conscience teaches.
  90. What are the necessity of a supernatural Revelation, and what it teaches.
  91. The object of is order and the object of order is .
  92. The is a substance, that our thoughts and have a have a common ground, of which they are the varying states or acts.
  93. teaches that the soul is an individual .
  94. As he is from all the of space so he is exalted above all the limitations of time.
  95. The ideas of space and duration are given in the of continuous .
  96. Modern Philosophy teaches that?
  97. To attain this view of eternity, we must accept the philosophical view of nature of God upon which it is founded, namely, that God is merely the of that unknown and something of which all other things are the .
  98. necessarily implies , a between the self and the not-self.
  99. In all cases there is the between the mind which perceives and the object which is perceived.
  100. According to the theory, the is the existence form of As the infinite comes to and life only in the finite, there is and can be in the infinite as from the finite.
  101. The of God is with a false theory of , but not with the true on that subject.
  102. and are intimately related.
  103. Wisdom is , omniscience is , omnipotence is simple of all that is.
  104. To the are and to the latter, the power of and all attributes.
  105. It is indeed that God should his word. But this only proves that may be as as necessity.
  106. God by an will on the of his glory, and by a will, determined on the creation of the world as a to that end.
  107. The will of God as the by . The of God is the expression or of his , or is by it so that his will, as revealed, makes known to us what and goodness demand.
  108. It is only our and purpose, together with of the body, that are immediately .
  109. According to this , and are all within the compass of the .
  110. What did Strauss says about those who attribute moral perfections to God.
  111. What is the meaning of Justice in Theology? And the Hebrew, Greek justice in Theology.
  112. When do we conceive God as Holy? And when do we conceive him as righteous.
  113. What is the statement of Clemens Alexandrinus outlined.
  114. Who defines justice to be benevolence guided by wisdom.
  115. Vindicatory Justice is the doctrine which?
  116. Give a summary of the erroneous teaching of Brunch ( Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary in Strasbourg).
  117. Goodness
  118. Benevolence.
  119. Love as defined by Bruch
  120. Give a statement of existence of evil, how can the existence of evil physical and moral, be reconciled with the Benevolence and holiness of a God, infinite in his wisdom and power .
  121. Explain what is perfection according to Werden?
  122. Explain Sovereignty in brief.
  123. Explain Doctrine of the Trinity, according to Hodge.
  124. Outline the three different aspects of the great article of the Christian Faith.
  125. Outline the statements of Apostolic Benediction in the formula of Baptism and Apostolic Benediction.
  126. What are the two theories that coloured the views of both the advocates and the opponents of the doctrine of the TRINITY during the Ante-Nicene period.
  127. Who were the Gnostics?
  128. What is the Platonizer’s System?
  129. What was the doctrine of Sabellus called?
  130. Outline the Sabellian Theory according to the author.
  131. Explain the Arianism Theory.
  132. Who summoned the first Ecumenical Council, including ,where did they meet and date they met.
  133. What was the objective of which the Ecumenical Council was convened.
  134. Give the names of the first three (3) Ecumenical Council recognized by oriental orthodoxy.
  135. Outline two considerations of the Nicene Council.
  136. Give a brief summary on the book of Genesis according to Charles Hodge.
  137. Write a brief summary on the prophetical books according to the writer.
  138. Winer and De Wette acknowledge for questioning that Christ is called the great God. Except what they regard as the Christology of the New Testament, Explain.
  139. Give a brief summary on the(a) nature of the Holy Spirit. (b) The personality of the Holy Spirit, (c) The relation of the Holy Spirit to the father and to the son.
  140. In your own words write on the Decree of God include (a)the nature of the degrees, (b) the glory of God the final cause of all his decrees, (c) The decrees of God relates to all events and the objective to the doctrine of Divine Decrees. Using not more than 200 words.
  141. Give a summary of the Theories which assume Intelligence in Nature itself.
  142. What is the difference between Professor Huxley Hypothesis and Nebular Hypothesis. On the purely physical theory of creation noted on page 411.
  143. Give an illustrated account using not less than two hundred words (200), on, Why God created the world, and what end was it designed to accomplish.as stated on page’s 422 and 423.
  144. There are three objections to the Doctrine of Higher Law. Give a brief summary using 200 or more words to explain this theory noted on page 463.
  145. Give an illustrative summary on the Chapter of the Angles using 500 words or more. Include (a) The Nature of Angels, (b) wrong views on the subject of Angels, (c) Their state, (d) their employment, ( e) Evil Angels, (f) Power and agency of evil spirit & (g) Demoniacal Possessions.
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