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Chapter 36 Questions:

CHAPTER 36 (a)

1.  What were some movements which contributed to and reinforced in a general

    way Biblical criticism?

2.  What are the three major approaches to the Bible?

3.  Which approach became the fashion in the 19th century?

4.  What are some basic ideas ( assumptions ) of the radical critic of the

    Bible?

5.  What do the radical critics overlook?

6.  What are the keys to knowledge for Kant?

7.  Can these keys open the door to God?

8.  What should be, according to Kant, the starting point for religion?

9.  Why does Kant postulate the soul and immortality?

10. Since Kant believes that the world of the Noumena is not accesible to

    the senses and reason, what does he consider to be only man-made?

11. For Schleiermacher, religion develops not from a set of beliefs and

    obligations based on the authority of the church, but on what?

12. Like Kant, what does Schleiermacher also not need?

13. According to Hegel, how does God try to manifest himself in history?

14. What problem do you see for orthodox Christians in this view? (God mani-

    fests [evolves] himself in history by the dialectice process, if he likes

    it or not. No personal, intervening, revealing God is possble, nor can

    the Bible be His book.)

15. What is the Bible for Ritschl?

16. How should the Bible be treated?

17. Who are the parents of Biblical criticism?

18. Should the reverent student of the Bible reject all criticism?

19. What is the difference between higher and lower criticism?

20. In what way can lower criticism be helpful to the believer?

21. What does higher criticism do to the Word of God?

22. What was the dictum of Eichhorn regarding the Bible?

23. What is Graf and Wellenhausen's view of the authorship of the Pentateuch?

24. Instead of prophecy, how do higher critics regard the book of Daniel?

    Why?

25. How are doctrines of the Bible explained by higher critics?

26. Into what has archeology forced many critics?

27. With whom does criticism of the New Testament begin, and what did he teach?

28. On what theory is the chronology of the New Testament book, according to

    the critic Ferdinand C. Baur, based?

29. What are the three different but independent 20th century approaches to the

    Bible?

30. What is the focus of a) source criticism b) form criticism and c) redaction

    criticism?

31. What did the critic David F. Strauss teach?

32. What can happen to a nation which denies God's revelation and relies solely

    on reason and science?

33. Why is materialism dangerous to spiritual values?

34. Who is the founder of the Christian social gospel, and what did he

    emphasize?

35. Higher criticism destroyed faith in the Bible and materialism destroyed

    faith in the future life. What did Darwinism destroy?

36. What are the two major works of Darwin?

37. How does Darwinian evolution work? (Nature produces more offsprings than

    can survive. In the struggle for the limited food supply and in adjusting

    to the environment, some have better survival characteristics than others.

    The better adapted ones pass on these characteristics in a never-ending

    very slow process of change or evolution.)

38. What Biblical concept does Darwinism reject?

39. What uniquely human characteristics does the Darwinian view of man relation

    to animals overlook?

40. What were three problems with Darwin's view which he himself admitted?

41. In what area did the evolutionary theory produce the greatest damage?

42. Wht did the evolutionary theory do to God, the Bible, eschatology, and sin

    and the Savior?

43. What consequences did evolution have for race relations, ethics and inter-

    national affairs?

44. From what three sources did Marx borrow?

45. What did he borrow?

46. What is the ultimate reality for Marx?

47. How does this view of reality differ with Christianity?

48. What is, according to Marx, the only source of value?

49. Since the surplus value does not go to the one to whom it belongs, what

    follows between the capitalist and the worker?

50. Who does Marx use Hegel's concept of thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis?

51. According to Lenin, by who and how would control be wrested from bourgeois

    unions and governments?

52. What religious ideas have no place in Marx?

53. What have liberal theologians espoused?

54. What man has opposed various forms of liberalism and socialism?

           CHAPTER 36 (b)

1.  What were some movements which contributed to and reinforced in a general

    way Biblical criticism?

2.  What are the three major approaches to the Bible?

3.  Which approach became the fashion in the 19th century?

4.  What are some basic ideas ( assumptions ) of the radical critic of the

    Bible?

5.  What do the radical critics overlook?

6.  What are the keys to knowledge for Kant?

7.  Can these keys open the door to God?

8.  What should be, according to Kant, the starting point for religion?

9.  Why does Kant postulate the soul and immortality?

10. Since Kant believes that the world of the Noumena is not accesible to

    the senses and reason, what does he consider to be only man-made?

11. For Schleiermacher, religion develops not from a set of beliefs and

    obligations based on the authority of the church, but on what?

12. Like Kant, what does Schleiermacher also not need?

13. According to Hegel, how does God try to manifest himself in history?

14. What problem do you see for orthodox Christians in this view? (God mani-

    fests [evolves] himself in history by the dialectice process, if he likes

    it or not. No personal, intervening, revealing God is possble, nor can

    the Bible be His book.)

15. What is the Bible for Ritschl?

16. How should the Bible be treated?

17. Who are the parents of Biblical criticism?

18. Should the reverent student of the Bible reject all criticism?

19. What is the difference between higher and lower criticism?

20. In what way can lower criticism be helpful to the believer?

21. What does higher criticism do to the Word of God?

22. What was the dictum of Eichhorn regarding the Bible?

23. What is Graf and Wellenhausen's view of the authorship of the Pentateuch?

24. Instead of prophecy, how do higher critics regard the book of Daniel?

    Why?

25. How are doctrines of the Bible explained by higher critics?

26. Into what has archeology forced many critics?

27. With whom does criticism of the New Testament begin, and what did he teach?

28. On what theory is the chronology of the New Testament book, according to

    the critic Ferdinand C. Baur, based?

29. What are the three different but independent 20th century approaches to the

    Bible?

30. What is the focus of a) source criticism b) form criticism and c) redaction

    criticism?

31. What did the critic David F. Strauss teach?

32. What can happen to a nation which denies God's revelation and relies solely

    on reason and science?

33. Why is materialism dangerous to spiritual values?

34. Who is the founder of the Christian social gospel, and what did he

    emphasize?

35. Higher criticism destroyed faith in the Bible and materialism destroyed

    faith in the future life. What did Darwinism destroy?

36. What are the two major works of Darwin?

37. How does Darwinian evolution work? (Nature produces more offsprings than

    can survive. In the struggle for the limited food supply and in adjusting

    to the environment, some have better survival characteristics than others.

    The better adapted ones pass on these characteristics in a never-ending

    very slow process of change or evolution.)

38. What Biblical concept does Darwinism reject?

39. What uniquely human characteristics does the Darwinian view of man relation

    to animals overlook?

40. What were three problems with Darwin's view which he himself admitted?

41. In what area did the evolutionary theory produce the greatest damage?

42. Wht did the evolutionary theory do to God, the Bible, eschatology, and sin

    and the Savior?

43. What consequences did evolution have for race relations, ethics and inter-

    national affairs?

44. From what three sources did Marx borrow?

45. What did he borrow?

46. What is the ultimate reality for Marx?

47. How does this view of reality differ with Christianity?

48. What is, according to Marx, the only source of value?

49. Since the surplus value does not go to the one to whom it belongs, what

    follows between the capitalist and the worker?

50. Who does Marx use Hegel's concept of thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis?

51. According to Lenin, by who and how would control be wrested from bourgeois

    unions and governments?

52. What religious ideas have no place in Marx?

53. What have liberal theologians espoused?

54. What man has opposed various forms of liberalism and socialism?

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