Cumulative level test: Sources and foundational concepts

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Question 1

“Catholics profess the Trinity” reports doctrine. “This council met in a given century” is historical. Their truth is investigated through different kinds of sources.

How should a claim about a council’s date be investigated?Through historical sourcesBy treating it as beyond historical inquiry

Question 2

A psalm can describe God as a rock. Reading that as a literal mineral claim ignores the poetic work of protection and reliability.

What does the rock image primarily require?A geological classification of GodAttention to metaphor and context

Question 3

A parish’s preferred hymn is a custom; it is not thereby equivalent to the creed. Longevity alone does not assign the same doctrinal status.

Does an old local custom automatically have creedal authority?No; kinds of authority must be distinguishedYes; anything old is equally binding

Question 4

An argument about contingency can be examined premise by premise. A profession of faith has a different role from a deductive proof offered to any inquirer.

How should a philosophical premise be defended?Only by insisting the conclusion is believedWith reasons open to examination

Question 5

Calling God the ground of being differs from imagining a very large creature inside the universe. Critics can challenge the argument without confusing those concepts.

What conception is being distinguished from classical theism?A powerful creature within the universeThe claim that metaphysical arguments can be debated

Question 6

An account of biological mechanisms and a metaphysical question about why anything exists operate at different explanatory levels. Tensions still require careful argument.

What question concerns creation in this metaphysical sense?Only how a particular organ developsWhy existence depends on a source at all

Question 7

A person unable to work retains dignity. A care policy should not calculate basic worth solely from economic contribution.

Which criterion conflicts with inherent dignity?Assigning basic worth solely by productivityProviding care to someone unable to work

Question 8

A harmful action may have serious consequences while coercion affects culpability. Distinguish evaluating harm from judging the person’s degree of responsibility.

What should be kept distinct?Every harmful outcome and deliberate malice as identicalThe harm done and the agent’s culpability

Question 9

A practice of prayer can express receptive commitment. It is not a mechanism that forces God to reward a completed checklist.

Which understanding makes grace into a transaction?Claiming a completed ritual obliges God to pay a rewardUnderstanding prayer as a response to a gift

Question 10

When studying a catechism passage, record its paragraph number and read neighboring paragraphs. A short quotation may leave its qualifications outside the excerpt.

What should accompany a doctrinal quotation?Only the most dramatic wordsLocation and attention to surrounding qualifications

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