William Lane Craig - Quiz
William Lane Craig
  • 1. What philosophical challenge does William Lane Craig address regarding divine aseity?
A) Dualism
B) Platonism
C) Pantheism
D) Materialism
  • 2. What is Craig's view on the existence of abstract objects?
A) They are physical entities
B) They are not ontologically real objects
C) They are created by God
D) They exist independently of God
  • 3. According to Craig, what is the chief support for Platonism?
A) The ontological argument
B) The argument from design
C) The cosmological argument
D) The Quine–Putnam indispensability argument
  • 4. What does Craig criticize regarding the neo-Quinean criterion of ontological commitment?
A) The assertion that God is an abstract object
B) The belief that logic is subjective
C) The rejection of first-order logic
D) The view that quantifiers and singular terms are devices of ontological commitment
  • 5. How does Craig interpret the quantifiers of first-order logic?
A) As exclusively existential
B) As neutral
C) As irrelevant to truth
D) As contradictory
  • 6. What theory of reference does Craig defend based on the intentionality of agents?
A) A deflationary theory
B) A correspondence theory
C) A coherence theory
D) A pragmatic theory
  • 7. What example does Craig use to illustrate that a statement can be true without an actual object existing?
A) God is love
B) The price of the ticket is ten dollars
C) The cat is on the mat
D) The chair is in the room
  • 8. How does Craig define references in his theory?
A) As a purely mathematical constant
B) As a word-world relation
C) As a speech act
D) As a physical interaction
  • 9. According to Craig, what allows singular terms to be used in true sentences without requiring corresponding objects?
A) They are logically impossible
B) They are defined by God
C) They are purely metaphorical
D) They are speech acts rather than word-world relations
  • 10. What theory does Craig suggest as a viable explanation if one grants a word-world relation for references?
A) Fictionalism
B) Essentialism
C) Nihilism
D) Realism
  • 11. What specific type of fictionalism does Craig mention regarding abstract objects?
A) Instrumentalism
B) Conceptualism
C) Error theory
D) Pretense theory
  • 12. Under pretense theory, how are statements about abstract objects characterized?
A) As historical data
B) As absolute truth
C) As expressions of make-believe
D) As scientific facts
  • 13. What was the purpose of Craig undertaking a study of the doctrine of the atonement?
A) To analyze historical linguistics
B) To refute Christian doctrine
C) To create a new denomination
D) Preparation for writing a systematic philosophical theology
  • 14. What is the title of Craig's 2019 book on the atonement?
A) Divine Aseity
B) The Atonement
C) The Nature of Abstract Objects
D) Philosophical Logic
  • 15. What is the title of Craig's 2020 book regarding the atonement?
A) Atonement and the Death of Christ
B) The Philosophy of Christ
C) Abstract Objects and Atonement
D) Systematic Theology
  • 16. Where did the Kalam cosmological argument originally stem from?
A) Medieval Islamic philosophy
B) Ancient Greek philosophy
C) Modern analytical philosophy
D) Post-Enlightenment theology
  • 17. Which premise of the Kalam argument does Craig focus his defense on?
A) The universe is non-contingent
B) Everything that exists has a cause
C) The universe began to exist
D) The universe is eternal
  • 18. What illustration does Craig use to argue that actual infinities are impossible?
A) The infinite library of Babel
B) Hilbert's infinite hotel
C) Zeno's paradoxes
D) Fractal geometry
  • 19. What term does Craig use for a process that can never reach an actually infinite collection?
A) Logically incoherent
B) Potentially infinite
C) Mathematically impossible
D) Temporally stagnant
  • 20. Which scientific model does Craig cite to support the beginning of the universe?
A) The oscillating universe model
B) The standard Big Bang model
C) Quantum loop gravity
D) The steady-state theory
  • 21. What does Craig argue is the nature of the cause of the universe?
A) A multi-verse collision
B) A mathematical singularity
C) A blind physical force
D) A personal agent
  • 22. Why does Craig argue the cause must be a personal agent?
A) To explain a temporal effect arising from an eternal cause
B) Due to quantum mechanics
C) Because the universe has life
D) Because only people create things
  • 23. Whose concept of causal explanation does Craig use in his argument?
A) Quentin Smith
B) Adolf Grünbaum
C) Graham Oppy
D) Richard Swinburne
  • 24. In what year did William Lane Craig join the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School?
A) 1987
B) 2014
C) 1994
D) 1980
  • 25. Where is Trinity Evangelical Divinity School located?
A) Houston, Texas
B) Santa Barbara, California
C) Deerfield, Illinois
D) Leuven, Belgium
  • 26. How long did Craig teach philosophy of religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School?
A) Four years
B) Seven years
C) Six years
D) Ten years
  • 27. Where did Craig have a one-year stint after leaving Trinity Evangelical Divinity School?
A) Talbot School of Theology
B) Westmont College
C) Biola University
D) Houston Christian University
  • 28. In what year did Craig move back to Europe as a visiting scholar?
A) 1987
B) 2006
C) 1980
D) 1994
  • 29. At which institution in Belgium was Craig a visiting scholar?
A) Ghent University
B) University of Brussels
C) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
D) University of Antwerp
  • 30. In what year did Craig join the Department of Philosophy and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology?
A) 1994
B) 2014
C) 1987
D) 2006
  • 31. Where is the Talbot School of Theology located?
A) Suburban Los Angeles
B) Houston
C) Santa Barbara
D) Downtown Chicago
  • 32. In what year did Craig become a professor of philosophy at Houston Christian University?
A) 1994
B) 2014
C) 2005
D) 2017
  • 33. Which university created an endowed chair in honor of Craig in 2017?
A) Biola University
B) Westmont College
C) Houston Christian University
D) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
  • 34. What is the name of the online Christian apologetics ministry established by Craig?
A) FaithandReason.org
B) ChristianPhilosophy.org
C) ReasonableFaith.org
D) ApologeticsToday.org
  • 35. Approximately how many books has Craig authored or edited?
A) Exactly ten
B) Under twenty
C) Over two hundred
D) Over forty
  • 36. Approximately how many articles has Craig published in professional journals?
A) Over two hundred
B) Over forty
C) Exactly one hundred
D) Over five hundred
  • 37. What is William Lane Craig's birth date?
A) August 23, 1950
B) September 23, 1949
C) August 20, 1947
D) August 23, 1949
  • 38. In what year did William Lane Craig become a Christian?
A) 1963
B) 1971
C) 1967
D) 1965
  • 39. Who was Craig's doctoral advisor at the University of Birmingham?
A) Wolfhart Pannenberg
B) John Hick
C) Stuart Hackett
D) Norman Geisler
  • 40. Where did Craig earn his second doctorate in theology?
A) University of Birmingham
B) KU Leuven
C) Wheaton College
D) LMU Munich
  • 41. Who supervised Craig's doctoral work at LMU Munich?
A) Wolfhart Pannenberg
B) John Hick
C) Stuart Hackett
D) Norman Geisler
  • 42. In which city was William Lane Craig raised?
A) Keokuk, Iowa
B) Peoria, Illinois
C) Atlanta, Georgia
D) Birmingham, England
  • 43. What was Craig's major for his Bachelor of Arts degree?
A) History
B) Theology
C) Communications
D) Philosophy
  • 44. Who did Craig study under at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School?
A) Norman Geisler
B) John Hick
C) Stuart Hackett
D) Wolfhart Pannenberg
  • 45. What fellowship did Craig receive in 1978?
A) Rhodes scholarship
B) Guggenheim fellowship
C) Fulbright scholarship
D) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship
  • 46. What is the profession of William Lane Craig's father?
A) Railway executive
B) Philosopher
C) Homemaker
D) Theologian
  • 47. What theological framework does William Lane Craig advocate regarding divine omniscience?
A) Molinism
B) Calvinism
C) Process theology
D) Open theism
  • 48. Who originally formulated the idea of middle knowledge?
A) C. Behan McCullagh
B) Jacobus Arminius
C) Luis de Molina
D) Conrad Vorstius
  • 49. Whose arguments against miracles does Craig discuss in his 1985 book?
A) Gerd Lüdemann
B) Heinrich Paulus
C) Friedrich Schleiermacher
D) David Hume
  • 50. How many main headings does Craig use to structure his argument for the resurrection?
A) Five
B) Four
C) Three
D) Two
  • 51. Who developed the evaluative framework Craig uses to analyze theories about the resurrection?
A) C. Behan McCullagh
B) Luis de Molina
C) Gerd Lüdemann
D) S.T. Davis
  • 52. Which theory does Craig reject as lacking explanatory power and scope?
A) The divine intervention theory
B) The historical evidence model
C) The hallucination hypothesis
D) The literal resurrection hypothesis
  • 53. Where was the 1996 Resurrection Summit held?
A) St. Joseph's Seminary
B) The Vatican
C) Oxford University
D) Princeton Seminary
  • 54. Who was one of the editors of the book 'The Resurrection. An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Resurrection of Jesus'?
A) William Lane Craig
B) Luis de Molina
C) S.T. Davis
D) David Hume
  • 55. What is one of the three historical events Craig cites as evidence for the resurrection?
A) The conversion of the Roman Emperor
B) The tomb was found empty by female followers
C) The written account by Pontius Pilate
D) The discovery of the shroud of Turin
  • 56. Which historical hypothesis does Craig reject along with the hallucination and apparent death hypotheses?
A) The eyewitness testimony hypothesis
B) The historical critical hypothesis
C) The theological interpretation hypothesis
D) The conspiracy hypothesis
  • 57. What version of the A-theory of time does William Lane Craig defend?
A) Moving spotlight theory
B) Eternalism
C) Growing block theory
D) Presentism
  • 58. According to Craig's A-theory, what exists?
A) Only the future
B) Only the past
C) The past, present, and future
D) Only the present
  • 59. What interpretation of special relativity does Craig advocate to support his A-theory?
A) Standard interpretation
B) Neo-Lorentzian
C) Quantum gravity
D) General relativity
  • 60. What does the neo-Lorentzian interpretation support that the standard interpretation rejects?
A) The curvature of spacetime
B) The equivalence principle
C) Absolute simultaneity
D) Time dilation
  • 61. What is God's state prior to creation according to Craig?
A) Temporal
B) Physical
C) Timeless
D) Multidimensional
  • 62. When does God enter a temporal state according to Craig?
A) Beginning with creation
B) At the moment of his own birth
C) After the end of the world
D) Before creation
  • 63. Whose work did William Lane Craig rely on when arguing that Genesis 1-11 belongs to the genre of mytho-history?
A) Paul Helm
B) Christopher Hitchens
C) Richard Dawkins
D) Thorkild Jacobsen
  • 64. What does Craig argue is the nature of the genre of Genesis 1-11?
A) Pure allegory
B) Scientific textbook
C) Mytho-history
D) Literal biography
  • 65. Craig is a critic of which of the following?
A) Reformed epistemology
B) Christian apologetics
C) Metaphysical naturalism
D) The existence of God
  • 66. How did Craig describe his theological position in his debate with Paul Helm?
A) Arminian in the proper sense
B) Process theologian
C) Open theist
D) Strictly Calvinist
  • 67. What type of Christology has Craig proposed?
A) Ebionite
B) Nestorian
C) Neo-Apollinarian
D) Monophysite
  • 68. Who ranked Craig as the nineteenth most influential philosopher from 1990-2020?
A) Wheaton College
B) Academic Influence
C) Oxford University
D) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
  • 69. Which New Atheist described Craig as a 'very tough guy' who is 'very rigorous'?
A) Sam Harris
B) Christopher Hitchens
C) Richard Dawkins
D) Lawrence Krauss
  • 70. Which critic claimed that Craig made 'disingenuous distortions' during their 2011 debate?
A) Wes Morriston
B) Lawrence Krauss
C) Sean Carroll
D) Paul Helm
  • 71. What was the main criticism Sean Carroll had after his 2014 debate with Craig?
A) Craig lacked scholarly rigor
B) Craig would simply repeat his original arguments
C) Craig was too aggressive
D) Craig refused to define his terms
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