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