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Philosophy of Religion | Set 1

1. Religion is not mere conviction but:

Correct : A. conduct

2. The term Religio means:

Correct : C. to bind

3. The term religion comes from the Latin word:

Correct : C. religio

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?

Correct : D. vedanta