Introduction to
Apologetics
Apologetics
"All beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
What is subjectivism?
This term is defined philosophically as "the making of a potential to an actual"
What is motion?
This philosophical perspective denies the existence of God.
What is atheism?
Those things which are done by divine power apart from the order generally followed by things
What is a miracle, according to Aquinas?
The three postures of apologetics?
What is proof, defense, offense?
"The science of explaining and justifying the Christian religion as the true religion"
What is Christian Apologetics?
The name of the argument that follows... Whatever begins to exist has a cause for its coming into being./// The universe began to exist. /// Therefore, the universe has a cause for its coming into being.
What is the Kalam argument?
These are the four propositions that are dealt with in the problem of evil.
What is....
1. God exists.2. God is all good.
3. God is all powerful.
4. Evil exists. ...?
This category of philosophy studies the nature of reality
What is metaphysics?
This position holds that everything we know by faith can also be understood, discovered, or proved by reason.
What is rationalism?
An argument not using reason
What is a nonrational argument?
Aquinas begins each of his five ways with this type of demonstration
What is empirical evidence? or What are things evident to the senses?
The defense of the problem of evil that appeals to the freedom of the creature as the only solution to the problem.
What is the free will defense?
This type of argument against miracles is not against their possibility but their knowability/believability
What is the epistemological argument against miracles?
This term is defined as "the branch of theology that studies human acts so as to direct them to a loving vision of God seen as our true, complete happiness and our final end"
What is Christian ethics?
"Reason is merely calculative and active"
What is the problem of scientism?
What are the possible types of material change, according to Aristotle?
This term is defined as "the privation of any part which is necessary for the integrity of an object"
What is natural evil?
This term is defined as "the likelihood an event taken in general with no specific context"
What is prior probability?
The reason why all people should care about ethics?
What is happiness?
The movement of the soul from that a things is/exists to what a thing is.
What is wonder?
Aquinas's first is concerned with why things undergo change, while his second way is concerned with this...
What is "Why things exist at all?"
A positive argument that seeks to give an explanation as to why God allows evil
What is a theodicy?
This term is defined as "the likelihood of an event based on our background knowledge and specific evidence"
What is subsequent probability?
This term is defined as the human's power to receive knowledge from the senses
What is intellectus?