Review Guide for PHL 320 Legenhausen Test ۞ BRING A PENCIL ۞      Prof. Stephens

1. Name the Four Major Arguments for the view that God is a person.
2. Present Argument #1 from Christ’s Divinity (FOR the view that God is a person).
3. How do Trinitarians respond to this argument?
4. What argument form, used in #2, does Legenhausen question?  What is his counterargument?
5. What is L’s view about the property of being a person being a perfection?
6. Explain the argument he uses to challenge the argument that God is a person in an infinite degree.  What conclusion does L draw from his argument?
7. What does L say about the relation between dignity and being a person?
8. Present Argument #2 from Scriptural Language.  What is the problem with this argument?
9. What 3-step argument would Hick endorse?  What similar 3-step (anthropomorphic) argument would Hick not endorse?
10. Briefly explain Kai Nielson’s argument about predicates commonly ascribed to God.
11. Present Argument #3 from Revelation.  How do Muslim theologians respond to this argument?
12. Present Argument #4 from Worship and Supplication (taken from Karl Rahner).  How does L challenge this argument?
13. Briefly explain Frederick Copleston’s argument that God is super-personal.
14. Briefly explain Legenhausen’s counterargument to Copleston’s argument.
15. What does L say about prayer and worship and belief in an impersonal deity?
16. Present Argument #1 from Not Being Created (AGAINST the view that God is a person).  How can this argument be challenged?
17. Explain three different argument that God is not a substance.
18. Present Argument #2 from God not being a substance to God not being a person.  How does L respond to this argument?
19. What was Aquinas’ view about God’s substantiality?
20. What does L says about persons, God, complexity, limit, and simplicity?
21. Present Argument #3 from God’s pure existence.
22. In the Muslim conception of God, what image has been used to portray God’s immanence?
23. Present Argument #4 from Embodied Minds.  Who challenges its first premise?  What doctrine conflicts with the second premise?  What doctrine seems to conflict with the conclusion?
24. What does Legenhausen say about Cartesian dualism and the mind-body problem?
25. Present the physicalist’s argument for atheism.  How might the theist respond to it?