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