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Philosophy of Religion overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Religious Studies quiz

16questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What kind of argument is the cosmological argument?

  2. What does Aquinas' First Way conclude God to be?

  3. Who argued that the universe is a 'brute fact' that is 'just there'?

  4. Paley's watchmaker analogy is an example of which argument?

  5. What does Tennant's anthropic argument claim?

  6. How does Anselm define God in the ontological argument?

  7. What is Kant's main objection to the ontological argument?

  8. Whose example is the 'perfect island' objection?

  9. What is the 'inconsistent triad' in the problem of evil?

  10. Whose theodicy describes the world as a 'vale of soul-making'?

  11. Which thinker gave four marks of mystical experience (ineffability, noetic, transiency, passivity)?

  12. What is Swinburne's principle of credulity?

  13. How did Hume define a miracle?

  14. According to Ayer's verification principle, religious statements are:

  15. How does Aquinas say words apply to God?

  16. How did Freud explain religious belief?