According to Plantinga, "Ultimate beauty comes not from a lover or a landscape or a home, but only through them."
True (page 6)
100
"O Lord.... you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
St. Augustine
100
What is the definition of "summum bonum"?
"supreme good"
100
As a student you may have any of a number of goals for your education. Perhaps one of them should be to expand the number of things that excite your __________.
What is Longing
100
What are three characteristics of a hopeful person?
They imagine, believe, and desire
200
On page 7, our "inconsolable secret" according to C.S Lewis is that we are longing solely for relationship.
False; we are full of yearnings...(page 7)
200
"Our inconsolable secret.... is that we are full of yearnings, sometimes shy and sometimes passionate, that points us beyond the things of Earth to the ultimate reality of God."
C.S. Lewis
200
What is the meaning of "shalom"?
"peace"
200
According to Lewis B. Smedes, a compelling Christian thinker, genuine hope always combines imagination, faith and _______.
What is Desire
200
What does a hopeful person do?
They imagine and believe. (page 8)
300
Biblical hope - the real thing - must have faith on one side of it and longing on the other.
False; love on the other (page 13)
300
"Keep hope alive.... and hope will keep you alive."
Lewis Smedes
300
What is the meaning of "nostalgia"?
"yearning for what is over now"
300
The most eloquent addresses to human hope and human conscience appeal to God because God's program of peace transcends racial divisions and invited us into God's "___ ___ _______."
What is One new kingdom
300
True or False:
It is NATURAL and HEALTHY to hope for only ourselves.
False.
It is natural and healthy to hope for ourselves, but it is provincial and unhealthy to hope ONLY for ourselves.
400
Shalom is the way things are supposed to be.
True; as stated by Plantinga on page 15
400
"As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God."
Psalm 42:1
400
What is the meaning of "sehnsuent"?
"strong overtones of seeking and searching"
400
We should not underestimate the difficulty of discerning and following the will of God where _____ is concerned.
What is Justice
400
One who ____ is one who imagines.
hopes (page 11)
500
Classical Christian hope centers on Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
False; centers on Jesus Christ alone, rejecting his rivals as pseudo-saviors. (page 16)
500
"Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you.... You were with me, and I was not with you."
St. Augustine
500
What is the meaning of "sensus divinitais"?
"sense of divinity"
500
The face of this love, which is toward thinking persons, is the love of our ________.