25 questions
How many faith stages are there in the Stages of Faith?
One
Two
Four
Six
Can an individual miss out a stage of faith?
No
Yes
Data is inconclusive from case studies
Can an individual revert to a previous stage of faith?
No
Yes
Data is inconclusive from case studies
Select the Faith Stage that best describes the following individual:'James understands the Earth was actually created by God in the Seven Days of Creation'.
Intuitive
Mythic - Literal
Synthetic - Conventional
Select the Faith Stage that best describes the following individual:
'Sam becomes easily frustrated when his friends call the Catholic Church into question'.
Mythical - Literal Faith
Individuating - Reflective Faith
Synthetic-Conventional
Select the Faith Stage that best describes the following individual:People like Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Marlin Luther King placed their emphasis on community rather than personal concerns'.
Universalised Faith
Individuative - Reflective
Mythical - Literal
Select the Faith Stage that best describes the following individual:
'3 year old Devon states God lives in my heart when asked where is God found?'
Paradoxical - Consolidative Atheistic Faith
Intuitive - Projective Faith
Universalising faith
Select the Faith Stage that best describes the following individual:
Carmen engages with other faiths as she believes it can develop her Catholic faith'.
Universalized Faith
Paradoxical - Consolidative Faith
Agnostic--Faith
What is the easiest Faith Stage to recognize?
a)Mythical - Literalb)Paradoxical - Consolidative Faithc)Synthetic - Conventionald)All Stages of Faith are easy to recognise
Paradoxical - Consolidative Faith
Mythical - Literal
All Stages of Faith are easy to recognize
The first stage in the stages of faith, is really not included in the other stages. It is from age 0--2. It is called primal or undifferentiated
True
False
What is the meaning of the word 'cosmos' in terms of a scientific or philosophical study
cosmopolitan
the universe
the world
the examination of beauty and fashion
The Cosmological argument has been presented by...
St Thomas Aquinas
St Anselm of Canterbury
St Augustine of Hippo
How many 'ways' does Aquinas present as proofs of God?
1
3
5
10
The argument of The Wager of Faith posits (argues)
that humans bet with their lives that God either exists or does not.
God is the unmoved mover
that God does not exist
Blaise Pascal was not only a philosopher and inventor, but also a
monk
mathematician
painter and artist
The purpose of Pascal's Wager was not to provide an argument to convince atheists to believe, but to show the fallacy of attempting to use logical arguments to prove or disprove God, and to persuade atheists to sin less, as an aid to attaining faith
True
False
Criticism of Pascal's wager began in his own day, and came from both atheists, who questioned the "benefits" of a deity whose "realm" is beyond reason, and the religiously orthodox, who primarily took issue with the wager's deistic and agnostic language.
True
False
The universe is therefore also contingent, so at one point nothing existed. This means there must be a...
necessary being
contingent being
Big Bang that randomly happened and was just accidentally started the growth of the universe
So for Aquinas the universe exists because there is a divine being who
Once created and is now dead
Creates, sustains and still resides in the universe
never existed and is an invention in the bible
Way One of Aquinas on the Prime Mover argues from
Cause
Motion
Contingency
Necessity
Way 2 of Aquinas argues that there has to be prior events that are brought on by other events, there must be a being who brought about all events in the first place
An Uncaused Caused
An Unmoved Mover
A Watchmaker who created, but no longer exists
The last argument of Aquinas state that inanimate things function together to accomplish an ordered purpose, this can not happen by chance but requires some intelligent being who has existed before all time
True
False
The last argument(Way,Proof) of Aquinas is called from
Motion
Design
Perfection/Imperfection
Of the five proofs of Aquinas which one makes the most sense
NOT GRADED
Motion
Causality
Imperfection
Design
None of them make sense to me or seem credible or believable
As a concept of faith and psychology the stages of faith seems to be
a)An accurate description of the stages that people go through in terms of both faith and psychological developmentb)It seems like a bunch of malarchy(untruth) created by a man who seems obsessed with religion and faithc)I don't have enough information at this time to make an informed decision on the concept of faith development
a)An accurate description of the stages that people go through in terms of both faith and psychological developmen
It seems like a bunch of malarchy(untruth) created by a man who seems obsessed with religion and faith
don't have enough information at this time to make an informed decision on the concept of faith development