Christian Heritage Test Questions - Forlini

The Crusades took place during which time period?

1095-1291

At what point does the persecution of Christians become more widespread?

3rd century AD

Which of the following is NOT part of John Calvin's understanding of humankind's relationship with God?

All people will go to heaven when they die

Which of the following served as Archbishop of Milan?

Ambrose

Which of the following groups was the most persecuted during the time of the Protestant Reformation?

Anabaptists

Which of the following groups were known as the "left-wing" of the Reformation?

Anabaptists

Which of the following has adult baptism as its major distinctive?

Anabaptists

Which of the following thought that the legalization of Christianity made the Christian life too easy, thus fleeing into the desert?

Anthony of Egypt

Which of the following said that Jesus' intellect or "rational soul" was from God?

Apollinaris

Which of the following refers to giving up one's possessions in order to "detach" from the world and share in the humanity and suffering of Christ?

Apostolic Poverty

Which of the following said that Jesus was just a "creature" and the first "creation" of God?

Arius

Which of the following doctrines highlights a person's choice in accepting or rejecting God's offer of salvation?

Arminianism

Which of the following said that the witness of "natural law" was sufficient for all people to know about Christ's love?

Bernard of Clairvaux

Which of the following wrote about "four degrees of love"?

Bernard of Clairvaux

Who said the following: "Love is one of the four natural affections that the entire world knows. It is natural and right first of all to love the author of nature; and the first and greatest commandment is: 'You shall love the Lord your God' (Luke 10:27). But nature is too soft and weak for such a precept; she must begin by loving herself..."?

Bernard of Clairvaux

Who said the following: "Wouldn't thou dwell in joy abounding, all thy life with light surrounding, make the cross thy constant care; on the rood of thy Redeemer be thy soul an ardent dreamer, bear it with thee everywhere"?

Bonaventure

Which of the following refers to an accepted or standard text that is deemed to be authoritative to a group of people?

Canon

Who said the following: "I said that revival is the result of the right use of the appropriate means..."

Charles Finney

Who said the following: "...And I counsel and entreat you, my Ladies: do you, too, always live in this most holy life and poverty, and keep watch over yourselves lest by the advice and teaching of any man you ever decline in any way from it"?

Clare of Assisi

Which of the following types of marriage views both parties as equal but advocates distribution of labor around traditional gender roles?

Complementarian

Which of the following was a translation of the Bible into multiple languages, which was produced in 1520?

Complutensian Polygot

Which of the following wanted to restore the Roman Empire through the legalization of Christianity and the toleration of every religion?

Constantine

Which of the following groups of people sought to take back the Holy Land through battle and religious zeal?

Crusaders

Which document talked about the "Two Ways"- of life and death - and gave instructions for baptism and other Christian rites of worship?

Didache

The name of Perpetua's slave was

Felecitas

Who said the following: "Most High, all powerful, all good, Lord, Yours be the praises the glory, the honor, all the blessing. To you alone, Most High, do they belong, and no one is worthy to pronounce your Name. Praise to you, my Lord, for all your creatures First of all Brother Sun..."

Francis of Assisi

Who said the following: "...Between the Christianity of this land and, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference..."

Frederick Douglass

The person first associated with Quakerism is

George Fox

A person who is interested in Judaism/Christianity and attends synagogue but who has not been circumcised is called...

God-fearer

Which of the following sought to express their piety by eating only the Lord's Supper?

Holy Anorexics

According to the Council of Trent, who ultimately had the responsibility of judging the true sense of interpretation of Scripture?

Holy Mother Church

Which refers to an individual who is a "breaker" of images?

Iconoclast

Who said the following: "Thirteenth Rule: To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it..."?

Ignacio of Loyola

Which of the following refers to the second part of the Christian life, where the believer contemplates God?

Illumination

Which of the following thinkers affirmed using one's reason to know God, oneself, and the world better?

Immanuel Kant

Calvin's _________________ was one of the most influential systematic expositions of Protestantism.

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Which of the following affirmed the "divine right of kings"?

James I

What is the most important meeting for Christians in the first century of the Church?

Jerusalem Council

Which of the following refers to a group of people who said that in order to become a Christian, you had to get circumcised?

Jewish Christians

Which of the following affirmed that the "true church" were those predestined by God for salvation?

John Calvin

Which of the following claimed that those selected by God existed in a "state of grace"?

John Calvin

Who said the following: "Civil government is designed, as long as we live in this world, to cherish and support the external worship of God, to preserve the pure doctrine of religion, to defend the constitution of the Church, to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of men, to form out manners to civil justice, to promote our concord with each other, and to establish general peace and tranquility..."?

John Calvin

Who said the following: "No pious person dares to absolutely deny predestination, by which God adopts some of the hope of life, and adjudges others to eternal death."

John Calvin

Which of the following taught the doctrine of Christian perfection, a universal spirit, and Arminianism?

John Wesley

Which of the following lived under Muslim rule in the 7th and 8th centuries?

John of Damascus

Who said the following: "If we adore the Cross, made of whatever wood it may be, how shall we not adore the image of the Crucified?"

John of Damascus

Who said the following: "If you bring forward certain practices, they do not condemn our worship of images, but the worship of heathens, who make them idols. Because heathens do it foolishly, this is no reason for objecting to our pious practice"?

John of Damascus

Who said: "We have passed the stage of infancy, and reached the maturity of manhood. We receive our habit of mind from God, and know that may be imaged and what may not"?

John of Damascus

Who claimed that revival was the "surprising work of God"?

Jonathan Edwards

Which of the following participated in the First Great Awakening?

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield

Which of the following claimed that "all truth is God's truth"?

Justin Martyr

Which of the following Greek ideas refers to a separate entity which orders the universe?

Logos

Which of the following is NOT one of the four Greek virtues?

Love

Which of the following thought that the Hebrew Bible needed to be removed from the canon?

Marcion

Which of the following developed the doctrine of justification by faith?

Martin Luther

Which of the following proposed the doctrine of the priesthood of the believer

Martin Luther

Who said the following: "Every Christian who feels true compunction has right full remission of pain and guilt, even without letters of pardon."

Martin Luther

Who said the following: "It has been devised that the Pope, bishops, priests, and monks are called the spiritual estate, princes, lords, artificers, and peasants are the temporal estate. This is an artful lie and hypocritical device, but let no one fear it because all Christians are truly of the spiritual estate, and there is not difference among them, except for office"?

Martin Luther

Who wrote against the Three Roman Walls?

Martin Luther

Which of the following advocated shunning or banning individuals whose mortality or theological beliefs had lapsed?

Menno Simons

Which of the following groups thought about their relationship with God in terms of lover and beloved?

Mystics

Which of the following sought union with Christ?

Mystics

Which of the following philosophical systems said that humankind can reach the "Ineffable One" through contemplation and the practice of virtue?

Neoplatonism

Who said Jesus' humanity was from Mary?

Nestorius

Who does Menno Simons exclude from the "ban"?

No one is excluded from the ban

The Cappadocian Fathers are those individuals who followed the teachings of

Origen

Which of the following made this statement? "There the representations of evil and virtue are set before them; so long as a soul continues to abide in the good it has no experience of union with a body. But by some inclination towards evil the souls lose their wings and come into bodies..."

Origen

Which of the following had a vision where God tells him not to call anything unclean that God has called clean?

Peter

Who said the following: "It behooves us, therefore, the more freely to confess that the spiritual power excels in dignity and nobility any form of earthly power, as spiritual interests exceed the temporary in importance...We, moreover, proclaim, declare, and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human being subject to the Roman pontiff."

Pope Boniface VIII

Who said the following: "Wherefore, I pray and exhort, no not I, but the Lord prays and exhorts you, as heralds of Christ, at all times to urge men of all ranks, peasants and knights, the poor equally with the rich, to hasten to exterminate this vile face from the lands ruled by our brethren, and to bear timely aid to the worshippers of Christ"?

Pope Urban II

The Council of Trent declared condemned and a heretic anyone who said Adam's sin injured himself alone and not his

Posterity

Which of the following refers to the first part of the Christian life, where the believer purges himself/herself from vices, sins, and attachment from the world?

Purgation

Which of the following groups wanted to purify the Church of England from its Catholic practices?

Puritans

Those individuals who believe in listening to the "inner light" are known as

Quakers

Which of the following was NOT an abolitionist?

Richard Furman

Which of the following is associated with liberty of conscience/soul liberty?

Roger Williams

Which of the following said non-interference and non-compulsion were the two hinges upon which society could move forward?

Roger Williams

Who said the following: "The unknowing zeal of Constantine and other emperors did more to hurt Christ Jesus' crown and kingdom than the raging fury of the most bloody Neros."

Roger Williams

Who said the following: "There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth, or a human combination of society. It hath fallen out sometimes, that both papists and protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience, that I ever pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges - that none of the papists, protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ship's prayers of worship, nor compelled from their own particular prayers of worship, if they practice any"?

Roger Williams

Which of the following served as the standard practice for monasteries in the West?

Rule of Benedict

Which of the following is NOT one of the the Three Roman Walls?

Salvation can be achieved outside the Catholic Church

Which of the following groups wanted to separate themselves completely from the Church of England?

Separatists

John Calvin used which of the following images when referring to reading the Scriptures?

Spectacles

Who said the following: "He makes them know His voice by so sweet a whistle, that they themselves can scarcely hear it. This He does that they might wander and be lost, but return to their mansion. This whistle of the Shepherd has such power, that they immediately abandon all those external things which deceived them, and they hasten into the castle "?

Teresa of Avila

Which of the following is NOT one of the Apostolic Fathers?

Tertullian

Which of the following made this statement? "For philosophy is the material of the world's wisdom, the rash interpreter of the nature and dispensations of God. Indeed heresies are themselves intimated by philosophy."

Tertullian

Which of the following quipped, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"

Tertullian

Who was the first thinker to posit a view of the Trinity?

Tertullian

A "fundamentalist" would believe which of the following?

That Jesus was really born a virgin

Which of the following stressed the humanity of Jesus?

The Antiochene School

The group of male intellectuals who sought to combat Roman and Greek philosophers' low opinion of Christians was

The Apologists

Which of the following refers to the split between the Eastern and Western Church in 1054?

The Great Schism

Which of the following was NOT a reason for Romans' prejudice against Christians?

They thought Christians were arrogant

Which of the following were reasons Jews persecuted Christians in the 1st century?

They were concerned that the wrath of both Rome and the gods would fall down upon them

What kind of relationship did the Jews have with Rome in the first century, around the setting of the period of Acts (30s, 40s, 50s)?

They were given protection as an established, official religion, and therefore didn't have to pay homage to the Roman emporer

Which of the following refers to the third part of the Christian life, where the believer achieves complete intimacy with Christ?

Union

Which of the following entered Carthage and Italy, bringing with them an Arian form of Christianity?

Vandals

The Eastern/Byzantine Church included all of the following geographical areas EXCEPT

Western Europe

Which of the following was NOT one of the "solas" of the Reformation?

solus amor

The Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, produced in the 3rd century BC, is called

the Septuagint