Christians & Muslims

1. The idea of the _________ was shocking, after so many centuries of Jewish emphasis of God's transcendence.

2. The ___________, viewed as an event that relieved humans of ultimate responsibility for their sins and "put things right between God and humanity," is difficult to square with ordinary notions of justice.

3. The cornerstone of Christian philosophy is the idea of ________ ________.

4. Philo reinterpreted Biblical tales as mythic statements about ____...

5. ____ interpreted Jesus as the son of God and declared the crucifixion an atonement for human sins.

6. (T/F) Plotinus said the world is an objectified overflow (or "emanation") of God's thought, so that even the lowest forms of existence are _________.

7. Augustine thought free will was a ______. (blessing, curse, illusion) His significance for later philosophy is seen in his ________ turn, an attempt to gain self-knowledge which would also lead to knowledge of God.

8. Muhammad identified Allah as _____________ (the same as, different from) the God of Christianity and Judaism. Islam originally was _________ (open to, hostile to) Christians and Jews.

9. _____ (Like, unlike) Christians, Muslims believe individuals have immortal souls and that the problem of evil is solved by free will.

10. _____ (Like, unlike) Platonists and neo-Platonists, Muslims consider the material world real and good.