Final Exam

Christian Movement II

Each of the following questions counts for one point each. I know that many of the details of the modern period are not familiar to most students so this is a test with a great deal of choice.There are 65 questions (which means that you can omit 15). Do not waste too much time making your selections. This test is a little more detailed than earlier tests and much of the material is less familiar. Do not do more than fifty questions. I grade by subtracting points from fifty for missed answers so this is not a chance to get extra credit or to cover bad guesses. Clearly, part of my pedagogic strategy is to see if you recognize what you don’t know as well as what you do know. Sometimes that can be the most important thing that a teacher can learn from a test to improve the course next time.

1_________________Historians usually refer to those changes in Catholicism that were directed against Protestantism as the _________________.

2________________In contrast, historians usually refer to those changes in Catholicism that were primarily directed towards inward change as the _________________.

3.______________The Catholic church continued to be strong in the _______________.

4.______________The ______________was a list of books prohibited to the Catholic faithful.

5.______________The Holy Office or ______________was used to suppress Protestants and other dissenters. It was particularly strong in Spain.

6. _____________The founder of the Jesuit Order was ___________________.

7. _____________The great Council that set Catholic teaching until Vatican I was the Council of Trent that meet for three sessions and was dominated by Italian and Spanish clergy.

8. _____________The great woman mystic of Spanish church in the seventeenth century was __________ of Avila.

9.____________The radical who joined the peasants in their rebellion was ______________.

10>___________The Anabaptist city that became known for its disorder and for its immoralities was the city of _____________.

11.___________Grebel, Manz, and Blaurock were all part of a bible study group that was gathered by _____________in Zurich. They left the main body of the Reformation and became leaders of the Swiss Brethren.

12.___________The great (Ana)Baptist leader who pulled the various groups together after the affair at Munster was ___________________>

13.__________. The noted anti-trinitarian who went to Poland and founded a thriving unitarian church was_____________. (The answer is not Servetus).

14._____________. Among those who dissented from the mainstream of the Reformation (the magisterial churches) were such men as Sebastian Frank and ________________ who were mystics or spiritualists.

15._____________After 1550, Europe entered into a season of _________________which encouraged Protestants and Catholics to draw sharp lines between their respective religious communities.

16.____________The new, more rigid Protestant theology that accompanied the religious wars was Protestant________________which, like its Catholic counterpart, often used the philosophy of Aristotle in formulating its positions.

17______________, A summary of the Christian faith held by the church in a specific territory is called a __________________. Among the most famous of these are the Westminster, the Augsburg, and the First and Second Helvetic.

18.______________The theology of Jacobus ___________caused considerable dispute over the doctrine of predestination in Holland.

19.____________The Dutch debate over predestination was ended at the Synod of _______which adopted the principle points of the “Tulip” as official Reformed teaching.

20. _____________One reason why the English reformed movement, common called ____________, is hard to define is that the popular name for the movement began as an insult.

21._____________King ___________I ordered a new translation of the Bible in part to spite his opponents who favored the so-called Geneva Bible.

22.____________The Book of __________urged Englishmen to use Sunday afternoons for disciplined exercises and games that prepared them to fight in battle.

23._____________. The King who was executed by order of Parliament was _____________.

24.____________The Puritan general credited with the defeat of the King who became the Lord Protector of England was Oliver ___________.

25._____________The great English writer who was one of the regicides (those who signed the warrant for the King’s death) and who defended liberty of conscience and the press was _____________.

26_____________.The wife of George Fox was _____________________. (Mrs. Fox is not an acceptable answer).

27. _____________The German Protestant mystic and alchemist, ___________ said:

“I have enough of the Bible with the book I have. The Spirit of Christ, the entire Bible is within me. Why would I wish for more books? Why discuss what is outside, while not having learned what is within me”

28._____________The founder of Pietism was ________________.

29._____________The founder of the great university at Halle was _____________. He was also noted for founded many charities, including the Canstein Bible House.

30.______________The group that began the modern love feast was the _________________.

31/_____________-Wesley’s journal recorded that his heart was strangely warmed at _____________but he continued to question his own faith until the revival at Bristol.

32.______________Wesley organized his followers into _______________(several versions of the answer are acceptable) that were designed to promote personal holiness and provide a place for prayer and biblical study. These are similar to the “pious societies” founded by Spener in Frankfurt.

32.____________Both Charles and John Wesley wrote ______to enrich the worship experience of their followers. Methodists were, consequently, known as a singing people.

33.____________Although John Wesley’s preaching was dynamic, his sometimes friend _________________was a better orator who stories held people enthralled.

34.____________Among the most important areas entered by Catholic missionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were ______________and 35. ______________off the coast of Asia.

35._______________.

36________________. The Spanish settlers often saw the First Nations as more __________than brothers. The church protested this vigorously, but ineffectively.

37. _____________ Our Lady of Guadalupe is frequently pictured as a ________________>

38._____________The Jesuit missionary who went to Goa in India and who finally reached the islands of Japan was ______________>

39_____________The priest who founded the Sisters of Clarity and the Lazarist Fathers was

__________________.

40.____________The French philosopher who strongly opposed the Jesuits in his Provincial Letters and formulated the “laws” of probability was ______________.

41._____________The great “democratic” philosopher and physician who participated in the Glorious Revolution was________________.

42.____________ Although Deism has often been defined as a doctrine of the watch maker God, the most important aspect of it to its adherents was its critical understand of the __________ and of the person of Christ.

43.___________The author of A Serious Call to A Holy and Devout Life was the Anglican non-juring priest, _________________.

44._____________The author of Candide was____________.

45._____________The Puritan “heretic” who believed that the Indians had valid title to the land was ____________, who founded Rhode Island after his explusion.

46. ___________The Puritan woman whose prayer meeting threatened the rulers of the Bay Colony was _______________.

47___________. The Church that was established by law in Virginia and Maryland was the _______________.

48.____________The author of the classic A Treatise on Religious Affections was ____________, pastor of Northampton, Ms.

49____________The English Revivalist who made seven trips to American and whose body is buried in Newburyport, Ms was ___________________.

50. ____________. The last two states to disestablish their churches were ___________ and 51. ________________.

51.____________(See above)

52. ____________The American Bishop who went to Scotland to be consecrated was the Connecticut priest, _______________.

53._____________Historians generally date the nineteenth century as the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the ____________.

54._____________During the 19^th century, one of the most exciting developments was the historical and critical understand of the ___________.

55. _____________The English biologist, ____________________, argued that all species on earth had gradually evolved from lower forms of life.

56.____________. The theologian who wrote the Speeches on Religion to its Cultured Despisers was___________________.

57._______________Among those influential in the founding of the Anglo-Catholic movement was the brilliant historian and churchman._________________________. He later left the Church of England and became a Catholic priest, bishop, and cardinal.

58.______________The influential Baptist missionary_______________went to India after persuading his fellow ministers to establish a missionary society to support him.

59._____________The founder of the China Inland Mission, the first and most influential “faith mission” was Hudson Taylor.

60.__________. The wife of missionary Adoniram Judson, ___________(first name) was among the most influential women writers of the 19^th century.

61_____________. The great New England theologian of the Sunday School (Christian Nurture) was ____________________.

62.______________Christians of all persuasions did social service. Some Christian theologians, however, went further and offered a theology began with humankind’s social nature. This theology was called the _____________.

63.______________The Baptist theologian___________________was among the best known advocates of the Social Gospel movement.

64._____________.The name of Professor Miller’s cat is Hamlin.

65._____________. The Pope whose life was written by a cat was Pope______________. No numbers needed.

Essays

You can do one question for fifty points or two questions for twenty-five points each.

1. We have read many of the giants of modern theology this semester. In an insightful essay, select one that you would like to study further and explain why you would make this selection.

2. Clearly, the instructor is somewhat biased towards forms of Christianity that are rich in emotional expression, such as the Wesley revival, the Great Revivals, the theology of Jonathan Edwards, mystics, including Boehme and Fox. Write an essay explaining why, in your view, the role of emotion was so important in post-Reformation Protestantism.

3. The modern church is not as neatly unified or packaged as the medieval church, and one could claim that the post-Reformation church is one schism after another. Select one of the particular stories that we have discussed, such as Puritanism, the Church in France, the Enlightenment, etc and discuss the various factors that make for disunity.

4. Select and write on one new passion or interest that you have developed in studying modern Christianity. It might be a thinker, a movement, an idea, or a church. What makes this aspect of the history so interesting? How might you research it? What would like to know about it that you do not already now.

Hamlin’s Corner

Somehow I do not fit myself image.

After much discussion, I have persuaded Glenn to offer an act of mercy. If you feel that all is lost by this point, you may earn a B- on this exam by making up a question and writing what you know about it. The idea is for you to give evidence that whatever happened on this test, you have learned something about church history. When in doubt, give it a roar.

Hamlin. (Incidentally, I am far more handsome than the cat in the picture. Yellow, or as cat fanciers call it red, is so unattractive on a cat.