4. “The feeling, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.” Who
defined religion in this way?
Correct : C. william james
5. ----------------- defines religion as, “the conservation of values.”
Correct : D. hoffoding
6. To----------------------, religion is not in doctrines, in dogmas nor in intellectual
argumentation; it is being and becoming, it is realization.
Correct : A. swami vivekananda
7. According to Alexander “Religion is--------------”
Correct : B. faith in deity
8. According to ------------------“Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond,
behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things.”
Correct : C. whitehead
9. To --------- “Religion is the consciousness of our practical relation to an invisible spiritual
order.”
Correct : B. patric
10. W.T Stace defined “religion as the ------------------ for the impossible, the unattainable, the
inconceivable.”
Correct : A. hunger of the soul
11. According to Whitehead, “Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond,
behind, and within, the ------------ of immediate things.”
Correct : D. passing flux
12. Talcott Parsons defines, religion, “-------------------------------------which men have evolved
in various societies”
Correct : C. a set of beliefs, practices, and institutions
13. According to Kant “Religion is a matter of the:
Correct : C. will
14. Concise Oxford Dictionary defines; religion is “human recognition of a -----------
controlling power and especially of a personal God or gods entitled to obedience and worship”
Correct : D. superhuman
15. Arnold says religion as, “ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by-----------------”
Correct : B. feeling
16. ------------------- defines, religion, “a body of scruples which impede the free exercise of
our faculties”
Correct : A. salomon reinach
17. Who defines religion as, “ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling”?
Correct : C. mathew arnold
18. ---------------explains, “Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a
Power which transcends our knowledge”.
Correct : D. herbert spencer
19. Not only the theist, but -----------------------can philosophize about religion.
Correct : C. the atheist and the agnostic
20. Herbert Spencer explains, “Religion is the humanity’s response to the --------------------.”
Correct : A. divine
21. The relation between religion and philosophy is -------------
Correct : C. most intimate
22. Both ----------------------raise the life of man and society to a higher and nobler level
Correct : C. philosophy and religion
23. Religious experience cannot be explained by -----------
Correct : A. intellect
24. --------------------------- is an intellectual and logical interpretation of religious experience.
Correct : C. philosophy of religion
25. Philosophy of religion studies the concepts, propositions and arguments of :
Correct : A. theologians
26. Hegel identified religion with the --------------------------of philosophy
Correct : D. pure intellectual notions
27. The philosophy of religion is not an organ of -----------------.
Correct : A. religious teaching
28. Philosophy of religion generally committed on:
Correct : A. reason
29. The philosophy of religion is based on ------------- as the fundamental principle of
knowledge.
Correct : C. idealism
30. --------------------------can be stated and verified through symbols, figures and visions.
Correct : B. religious experiences
31. ----------- can very well help us to reject superstitions and blind belief from the religion.
Correct : A. reason
32. ---------------is the core of philosophy of religion.
Correct : D. spirituality
33. The -----------------------is the aim of philosophy of religion.
Correct : A. spiritual realization
34. ------- seeks to raise religious doctrine to a philosophical form by exercising a free
criticism upon them.
Correct : B. speculative theology
35. Theologians seeks to unfold a world-view, based on:
Correct : D. religious postulates
36. Science and religion generally pursue knowledge of the ---------- using different
methodologies
Correct : D. universe
37. Which theory states that God is existing apart from the world?
Correct : B. deism
38. Deists believed that God is the:
Correct : A. cause uie
39. According to Deism, God exists beyond --------------
Correct : D. time and space.
40. Pantheism comes from Greek terms :
Correct : A. ‘pan’ and ‘theo’
41. Pantheism literally means that:
Correct : C. all is god
42. ‘The world is God, and God is the world’- this view is called:
Correct : A. pantheism
43. According to -------------- , God is Substance and Substance is God
Correct : C. spinoza
44. -----------------form of Idealism is Pantheistic in character.
Correct : B. hegelian
45. Nothing falls outside the Absolute and everything is the Absolute. Who holds this view?
Correct : D. hegel
46. The Upanishadic saying “aham Brahmasmi” and “sarvam khalavidam Brahma” having a
similarity with:
Correct : A. pantheism
47. ----------------------is the belief that there is but one supreme Being,
Correct : C. monotheism
48. God is personal and moral and who seeks a total and unqualified response from human
creatures- This view is related with:
Correct : C. monotheism
49. --------------was not only the God of the Hebrews but the Maker of heaven and earth.
Correct : A. jahweh
50. ------------------ believes that God is the highest personality, the creator, supporter and
defender of the world.
Correct : D. theism
51. Among these Western philosophers who is the advocate of theism?
Correct : A. descartes
52. Karl Marx treated religion as a tool of--------------------------.
Correct : C. economic exploitation
53. Atheism means :
Correct : D. there is no god
54. “Religion is the opium of the people.”- Who said?
Correct : A. karl marx
55. ------------------do not believe in the existence of God because God’s existence cannot be
perceived.
Correct : A. charvakans
56. Who calls foundational beliefs as “M-beliefs”?
Correct : A. william alston
57. In the term “M-beliefs”, M stands for:
Correct : B. manifestation
58. -------------- argues that religious beliefs are properly basic.
Correct : B. alvin plantinga
59. Alvin Plantinga made an influence upon Reformers of the sixteenth century, particularly:
Correct : D. john calvin
60. “Belief” can be defined as an:
Correct : A. act or state of believing
61. The idea that our belief-structures are and must be built upon basic beliefs, which are
grounded in and justified by clear circumstances is called:
Correct : A. foundationalism
62. ‘The material world exists only in consciousnesses, our own and God’s’- this position is
known as:
Correct : B. solipsism
63. --------------is an act of divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating
to human existence.
Correct : C. revelation
64. ------------- is confidence or trust in a person to thing, deity, in the doctrines or teachings
of a religion, or view even without empirical evidence.
Correct : D. faith
65. Christian thought treats Bible as a ------------------of revelation.
Correct : B. medium
66. Critique of Religion and Philosophy is written by:
Correct : B. walter kaufmann,
67. The term mysticism comes from the Greek word ---------------
Correct : A. mystikos
68. Non-propositional view of revelation and faith has become widespread within --------------
during the present century.
Correct : A. protestant christianity
69. The teleological argument has its earliest roots in the thought of ------------------
Correct : C. plato
70. Teleological argument states that God is an intelligent--------------------.
Correct : A. designer
71. Paley’s ------------------conveys the essence of the teleological argument.
Correct : C. analogy of watch
72. “Dialogues on Natural Religion”, is written by:
Correct : A. david hume
73. The cosmological argument considered God as the:
Correct : C. first cause
74. To -----------first cause argument is known as cosmological.
Correct : D. aristotle
75. According to Aristotle God is the:
Correct : A. prime mover
76. Ontological argument was first put forth by:
Correct : B. st. anselm
77. By the term ‘greater’ Anselm means:
Correct : C. more perfect
78. Descartes’ concept of innate idea has a base in:
Correct : C. ontological argument
79. Matter was the source of all evil- Who made this assertion?
Correct : C. philo
80. Good and evil are:
Correct : C. correlative facts
81. Each man could frame his own code of good and evil. Who holds this position?
Correct : D. sophists
82. Both Spinoza and Hegel practically denied the-------------------.
Correct : A. reality of evil
83. The metaphysical evil is called the ----------------
Correct : D. natural evil
84. Who considered evil to be due to the imperfections that are inherent in the construction of
the finite elements of the universe?
Correct : C. leibniz
85. All the forces of evil and sin came to be personified in Satan. This view is holds by:
Correct : B. christianity
86. According to pessimism this world is a :
Correct : B. worst possible world
87. Moral evil is a direct consequence of man’s ---
Correct : A. free will
88. Mental anxiety, sorrow, excitement, tension, uproar, etc. create :
Correct : C. mental evil
89. Who shows strong views in favour of pessimism?
Correct : B. arthur schopenhauer
90. Who considered that the world of ours is the best possible world?
Correct : D. leibniz
91. ---------------------- is a positive approach to life and existence.
Correct : A. optimism
92. According to Spinoza, soul is immortal which gets the --------------------- of God.
Correct : B. intellectual love
93. Atman is neither born nor does it die- This view holds by:
Correct : C. gita
94. According to Buddhism the soul is nothing but the------------------.
Correct : A. mind-body complex
95. According to Kant’s metaphysical and moral doctrine:
Correct : D. the soul is immortal
96. -------- begins with the notion, God, the force of all good, and the Devil, the source of all
evil.
Correct : B. traditional christianity,
97. ‘God or the Supreme Being is unaffected by evil and stands above relative good which
is the correlative of evil’. Which tradition holds this position?