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