Deck 4: Christian Traditions

Question 1

Jesus's public ministry begin with his ________.

A) baptism
B) death
C) birth
D) trial

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Christian New Testament became a standard canon ________.

A) immediately following Jesus's death
B) shortly after the Protestant Reformation
C) within the lifetimes of the original disciples
D) shortly after Christianity became the established religion of the Roman empire

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity asserts three ________.

A) stages of life
B) stories about Jesus
C) divine persons
D) distinct gods

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Ecumenical means ________.

A) Latin-world
B) worldwide
C) heterodox
D) orthodox

Question 5

Christian scholars of the Middle Ages believed that ________.

A) faith and reason were antitheses
B) reason was more important than faith
C) faith was more important than reason
D) faith and reason were mutually confirming

Question 6

In Christianity, the Eucharist is also known as ________.

A) communion
B) the Our Father
C) Passover
D) the Messiah

Question 7

A Christian monk who chose the cenobitic path lived ________.

A) among the lay community, providing spiritual services to citizens
B) on the streets, begging for food and money
C) in a community with others committed to the religious life
D) away from society, devoted to silence and prayer

Question 8

A basilica is a church whose architectural style is modelled on ________.

A) Roman government buildings
B) Roman temples
C) Byzantine theatres
D) North African palaces

Question 9

The European Enlightenment was characterized by a growing confidence in ________.

A) the aristocracy
B) the Church
C) human morality
D) human reason

Question 10

Pentecostal Christians tend to cultivate the practice of ________.

A) silent meditation
B) speaking in tongues
C) acupuncture
D) displaying the stations of the cross

Question 11

For Roman Catholics, magisterium refers to the ________.

A) Church's role in salvation
B) pope
C) patriarch
D) Church's teaching authority

Question 12

The Second Vatican Council changed Roman Catholicism by ________.

A) having officiating priests face the congregation
B) modernizing the dress of priests and nuns
C) replacing Latin with the vernacular as the language for mass
D) all of the above

Question 13

Christianity has been used to support ________.

A) anti-slavery
B) slavery
C) civil rights
D) all of the above

Question 14

The social gospel movement was influenced by ________.

A) sociology
B) socialism
C) capitalism
D) None of the above.

Question 15

The Christian social gospel movement did not focus on ________.

A) religious bigotry
B) individual sin
C) the corruption of justice
D) social sin

Question 16

In twentieth-century Christianity, ________ focused on the concerns of oppressed groups including women, the poor, and the politically violated.

A) existentialist philosophy
B) process theology
C) neo-orthodoxy
D) liberation theologies

Question 17

In Christianity, process theology sees God as ________.

A) changeable in some respects
B) a divine clockmaker
C) a judge
D) eternally the same

Question 18

________ ordains women as clergy.

A) The American Episcopal Church
B) The Church of England
C) The United Church of Canada
D) All of the above

Question 19

Jesus of Nazareth ________.

A) was born in Israel around the year 4 CE
B) was an itinerant teacher in the prophetic tradition of his day
C) was arrested by the Jewish authorities and sentenced to death by crucifixion
D) was raised as a Christian in a Hebrew-speaking family

Question 20

After the Gospels, the second set of writings central to the New Testament is ________.

A) are the Deutero-Pauline writings
B) are the prophecies of Revelation
C) are the Pauline epistles
D) are the deutero-Gospel writings

Question 21

It took approximately ________ for Christianity to evolve into a religion from a movement within Judaism.

A) 400 years
B) 1000 years
C) 100 years
D) 700 years

Question 22

A controversy that raged in the early Jesus movement was ________.

A) who was responsible for Jesus's death
B) whether to keep or abandon the regulations concerning food laws
C) whether Gentiles needed to observe the Jewish law
D) the notion that fertility rituals needed to be maintained

Question 23

By refusing to perform the civic duty of offering sacrifice to the Emperor, early Christians were ________.

A) seen to destabilize society and were in turn persecuted
B) praised by Rome's enemies
C) deported to North Africa
D) required to perform community services

Question 24

The Roman Emperor Constantine is considered ________.

A) the first Emperor to recognise Judaism as a legitimate religion
B) the first Emperor to have compromised Christian worship
C) the first Emperor to destroy Christian sanctuaries
D) the first great Christian Emperor

Question 25

From the beginning, Christians understood their faith to demand ________.

A) passive separation from the world
B) allegiance to the pope
C) active engagement with the world
D) complete rejection of money

Question 26

The foundational office in Christianity was ________.

A) the priestly office
B) the papacy
C) the diaconate
D) the episcopacy

Question 27

In Eastern Christianity, a system of oversight developed in which the secular emperor ________.

A) chose the head of the church
B) relegated power to various priests
C) was no longer invested with imperium (secular power) but only with sacerdotium (priestly or religious authority)
D) was invested with both imperium (secular power) and sacerdotium (priestly
Or religious authority).

Question 28

For much of Christian history, women were able to fulfill the role of ________.

A) bishop
B) priest
C) deacon
D) widow

Question 29

In Christianity, deaconesses were not ________.

A) the female equivalents of deacons
B) ordained through the laying on of hands in the sanctuary
C) eliminated from religious practice by the sixth century
D) responsible for preparing female candidates for baptism

Question 30

In early Christianity, ________ separated the idea of God the creator from God the supreme being, positing that the creator was a lower being or "demi-urge."

A) Nestorianism
B) Gnosticism
C) Docetism
D) Montanism

Question 31

In early Christianity, Docetism held that God ________.

A) was a fourth-century Christological heresy
B) would not have sent his son to die
C) was not omnipotent
D) could not have been humiliated on a cross

Question 32

In early Christianity, Pelagianism was considered a salvation heresy because it ________.

A) taught that no human being could be saved
B) considered all people to be under the rule of law
C) taught that because of original sin no human being cold lead a moral life without God's grace
D) taught that humans were not so tainted by original sin as to be unable to choose the good of their own free will

Question 33

The Christian Eucharist ________.

A) is thought to have originated from the Greco-Roman ritual meal complex
B) was first written and performed by Paul
C) originated with the church father Augustine
D) drew on the Synoptic Gospels' accounts of the night before Jesus was
Arrested

Question 34

In Christianity, an anchorite is ________.

A) someone who engages with the rituals of the church
B) a pictorial motif found in the early church
C) someone who withdraws from society
D) an element of the baptismal rite of initiation

Question 35

In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, ________ was the founder of Eastern monasticism and supported the opposition to the Arians and their monophysite Christology.

A) Gregory of Nanzianzus
B) Basil
C) Gregory of Nyssa
D) Augustine

Question 36

Mysticism ________.

A) is a specific tradition that emphasizes the certainty of profound personal experience
B) involves the daily reading of theology
C) includes the daily writing of theological treatises
D) is a form of prayer which considers communication with the divine a mystery

Question 37

An Oglala Lakota named Black Elk was perhaps the most significant ________.

A) Aboriginal leader to believe that indigenous wisdom and Christian belief were complementary
B) Aboriginal leader to incorporate Christian symbols in the art work of first nations people
C) Aboriginal priest to promote Christianity among First Nations people
D) Aboriginal shaman who came to blows with Christian leaders

Question 38

The term "modernist" was first used to refer to a group of Roman Catholic theologians who ________.

A) towards the beginning of the twentieth century tried to reconcile the church's teaching with the Darwinian notions of evolutionism
B) towards the end of the nineteenth century saw no reason to continue with the faith tenets of the Medieval Church
C) towards the end of the nineteenth century had adopted a critical and skeptical attitude toward traditional Christian doctrines, especially with reference to Christology and soteriology
D) towards the beginning of the twentieth century had adapted many enlightenment principles into the teachings of the church

Question 39

One of the best known Canadian leaders to carry the social-gospel message into the political arena was ________.

A) Jean Charest
B) Maurice Duplessis
C) Tommy Douglas
D) John Diefenbaker

Question 40

Christianity is comprised of more than ________ distinct denominational groups

A) 125,000
B) 20,000
C) 5,000
D) 50,000

Question 41

Scholars generally agree that, of the Pauline Epistles included in the New Testament Canon, ________ may not have been written by Paul.

A) Romans
B) Galatians
C) Philippians
D) Ephesians

Question 42

All Christian denominations agree that ________ is a sacrament.

A) penance
B) ordination
C) baptism
D) marriage

Question 43

In early Christianity, the focus of the Council of Nicaea was ________.

A) whether a human, Mary, could be the mother of God
B) whether Jesus died and rose from the dead
C) whether Jesus was of the same substance as God the Father or of similar substance
D) whether Jesus was human or divine

Question 44

The final break between the Churches of Constantinople and Rome is conventionally dated to ________.

A) 1054
B) 867
C) 987
D) 1450

Question 45

In 1095, Pope Urban II ________.

A) signed a treaty that would divide the Church between East and West
B) called for peace between Christians, Jews, and Muslims
C) forced slaves to go into battle on behalf of the Church
D) initiated the crusades to liberate the holy places of Palestine

Question 46

Malleus Maleficarum was ________.

A) a Medieval guide for performing exorcisms
B) a Medieval prayer book for Italy's Roman Catholic aristocracy
C) a Medieval cloistered monastery
D) a Medieval handbook for Christian witch-hunting

Question 47

Monks and nuns in Christian monastic communities were not required to take a solemn vow of ________.

A) obedience
B) chastity
C) poverty
D) participation

Question 48

The _________ were groups of unconsecrated women who chose to live a freer type of religious life.

A) Beguines
B) Berghards
C) Carmelites
D) Ursulines

Question 49

In Christianity, ________ form a kind of heavenly senate or honour society, and can serve as powerful allies in the quest for spiritual benefit.

A) nuns and monks
B) icons
C) angels
D) saints

Question 50

In 1517, Martin Luther ________.

A) released a tract in response to the peasant revolts in Germany
B) posted his "95 Theses" against indulgences
C) split the Church into many differing groups
D) spoke out in support of a Church-state separation

Question 51

The Christian reformer ________ believed that only God could bring about salvation, and even before creation, he had predestined some people to salvation.

A) Martin Luther
B) Ulrich Zwingli
C) Henry VIII
D) Jean Calvin

Question 52

The ________ denomination grew out of the Christian Anabaptist movement.

A) Calvinist
B) Presbyterian
C) Mennonite
D) Unitarian

Question 53

________ is considered a "Great Awakening" in the Evangelical Christian tradition.

A) A period that focused on bringing non-believers to Christ
B) A period that focused on social engagement
C) A period that focused on people who were already church-going believers
D) All of the above

Question 54

Jesus of Nazareth was a Christian.

Question 55

Mark's gospel is most likely the oldest of the New Testament gospels.

Question 56

The Gospel of Matthew opens with a discussion of the Logos

Question 57

The theories of Charles Darwin had a profound effect on Christian theology.

Question 58

The filioque debate was not the only issue that separated the Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions.

Question 59

Constantine's pro-Christian initiatives led to the construction of much larger and grander worship spaces known as basilicas.

Question 60

Remembering Jesus's life and death is central to Christian life and worship.

Question 61

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a Benedictine abbess who had a creative life in writing and music but was also involved in politics and diplomacy.

Question 62

At the heart of the Enlightenment was a growing mistrust in human reason.

Question 63

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the scientific worldview was "creationist."

Question 64

Liberalism, evangelicalism, and fundamentalism were broad global movements that never affected Christianity in the West.

Question 65

Pentecostalism has nothing in common with the Holiness movement.

Question 66

The dramatic decline of Christianity in Europe and North America has been fuelled by a rising secularism.

Question 67

Cenobitic monks withdraw from society.

Question 68

In 1517, Jean Calvin posted a list of "95 Theses" against indulgences on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.

Question 69

Women in Canada are not able to serve as leaders in Christian churches.

Question 70

According to Christian doctrine, what is the Trinity?

Question 71

Why did language play an important part in the success of the Eastern Orthodox tradition?

Question 72

How did mendicant orders differ from monastic orders in Medieval Christianity?

Question 73

How are the Anabaptists different from other Protestant reformers?

Question 74

What was the goal of the Jesus Seminar?

Question 75

Why is the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae especially significant for Roman Catholics?

Question 76

How the Gospel of John different from the Synoptic Gospels?

Question 77

What do we know about the historical Jesus?

Question 78

What was the beginning of the Evangelical Christian Great Awakenings?

Question 79

What are considered sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church? What are considered sacraments in Protestant churches?

Question 80

How is the Christian Church changing in response to changing demographics?