Phil 120 Exam 3 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
early in this third section of the course (and in the first section of the
course) the professor distinguish natural or philosophical theology from
reveal theology. explain the distinction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔since most theists
are religious believers, and many agnostics and atheists are interested in
understanding the ramifications of natural theology for various religious
traditions, it will sometimes help to raise questions from within a particular
faith tradition when we are testing the results of a natural theology.
according to David B. Hart, when one uses the word 'God' properly-
according to a wide variety of religious traditions- what does one say about
,God? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔to speak of 'God' properly is to speak of the one
infinite ground of all that is: eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent,
uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of all things, and for that very
reason, immanent to all things
what does it mean to speak of 'gods'? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔to speak of 'gods' is
to speak only of a higher or more powerful or more splendid dimension of
immanent reality
according to Hart, how does one go about investigating the existence and
nature of God? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔God can be investigated by acts of logical
deduction and conjecture or, on the other? by contemplative or spiritual
experiences
how would one go about investigating the existence and nature of fairies
and gods? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔fairies or gods, if they exist, occupy something
of the same conceptual space as organic cells, photons, and the force of
gravity, and so the sciences might perhaps have something to say about
them, if a proper medium for investigating them could be found
when we began talking about the nature of God which two models of the
nature of God did we discuss? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔classical and neo-theism
, for our purposes in this class, how do we understand the meaning of
'special divine action'? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔miracles
with just a few exceptions all classic theists accept ________. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔A,B, and C:
A there is one and only one God, whose existence is uncaused, and who is
metaphysically simple, immaterial, absolutely immutable, absolutely
perfect, timelessly eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, omni benevolent,
necessarily existent, the transcendent creator and sustainer ex-nihilo of all
things other than God and so immanent to- present to- all things other than
God at each and every moment of the existence of any such things as a
creating and conserving cost of the existence of such creative things. finally
God loves all created things
B God is not subject to physical laws, since God is immaterial and is the
creator of such laws; God is not subject to the laws of morality or logic in
the sense that such laws are something eternal to God; rather, The laws of
logic and morality are really partial expressions of God's own perfect being
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Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
early in this third section of the course (and in the first section of the
course) the professor distinguish natural or philosophical theology from
reveal theology. explain the distinction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔since most theists
are religious believers, and many agnostics and atheists are interested in
understanding the ramifications of natural theology for various religious
traditions, it will sometimes help to raise questions from within a particular
faith tradition when we are testing the results of a natural theology.
according to David B. Hart, when one uses the word 'God' properly-
according to a wide variety of religious traditions- what does one say about
,God? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔to speak of 'God' properly is to speak of the one
infinite ground of all that is: eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent,
uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of all things, and for that very
reason, immanent to all things
what does it mean to speak of 'gods'? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔to speak of 'gods' is
to speak only of a higher or more powerful or more splendid dimension of
immanent reality
according to Hart, how does one go about investigating the existence and
nature of God? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔God can be investigated by acts of logical
deduction and conjecture or, on the other? by contemplative or spiritual
experiences
how would one go about investigating the existence and nature of fairies
and gods? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔fairies or gods, if they exist, occupy something
of the same conceptual space as organic cells, photons, and the force of
gravity, and so the sciences might perhaps have something to say about
them, if a proper medium for investigating them could be found
when we began talking about the nature of God which two models of the
nature of God did we discuss? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔classical and neo-theism
, for our purposes in this class, how do we understand the meaning of
'special divine action'? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔miracles
with just a few exceptions all classic theists accept ________. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔A,B, and C:
A there is one and only one God, whose existence is uncaused, and who is
metaphysically simple, immaterial, absolutely immutable, absolutely
perfect, timelessly eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, omni benevolent,
necessarily existent, the transcendent creator and sustainer ex-nihilo of all
things other than God and so immanent to- present to- all things other than
God at each and every moment of the existence of any such things as a
creating and conserving cost of the existence of such creative things. finally
God loves all created things
B God is not subject to physical laws, since God is immaterial and is the
creator of such laws; God is not subject to the laws of morality or logic in
the sense that such laws are something eternal to God; rather, The laws of
logic and morality are really partial expressions of God's own perfect being
3
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
