BTH351-Final-Exam

Growth of papal power began under Hilderbrand and culminated in Gregory the Great.

Gregory introduced certain doctrines to the Roman church, such as transubstantiation and purgatory.

In the Middle Ages, many pious frauds supported the authority of Constantinople.

Weak and wicked popes brought discredit to the office from 850-1050 A.D.

Innocent III took over the Roman city government with Otto of Brunswick as their supreme lord.

The rise of Mohammedan power tore province after province away from the Greek Emperors of Constantinople.

Mohammed was born in 570 A.D.

The early Moslems were not warlike.

The Arabians gave us our numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.).

The Islamic conception of Heaven is a spiritual one.

Women are exalted in the Islamic religion.

The differences between the Eastern and Western churches did not include____.

The political separation of Europe from Constantinople was more important than the ceremonial differences between the 2 churches.

The least powerful force leading to the separation of the Eastern and Western Church was Rome’s claim to be the ruling Church.

From the 4th century on, multitudes have made pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

The 2nd Crusade lasted 3 years.

In 1187, Jerusalem was retaken by Saracens.

The king who drowned in the 3rd Crusade was____.

The 4th Crusade was a roaring success.

The 7th Crusade under the leadership of St. Louis was successful though cut short by the death of Louis at Tunis.

The monastic movement developed quickly from the start in Europe.

The Cistercian Order came about to strengthen the Benedictine order.

The Cisterians gave no attention to art or literature.

The Black Friars were a French order.

No universities arose because of the monks.

Monks and nuns were never supported by their extortion of contributions from rich and poor families.

By the time of the reformation of the 15th Century, monks were forced to work for their own support.

The great cathedrals of Europe were of poor architecture.

The Abligenses circulated the New Testament and rejected the Old Testament.

John Wyclif did not oppose the authority of the Pope in England.

Jerome Savonarola was Prior of the monastery of St. Mark.

The date of the fall of Constantinople was ____.

Match the scholar/leader with the fact:

Thomas Aquinas was the greatest mind of the Middle Ages.

The 5th General Period (1453-1648) saw the national Churches being established which owed no allegiance to Rome.

Italian students of the Renaissance Period led a religious life.

The printing press was invented by Gutenberg and printed the Bible as its first book.

The reading of the New Testament caused the people to realize the papal church was far from the New Testament ideal.

The spirit of nationality brought about a disposition to withhold the contribution of “Peter’s Pence”.

The date of the start of the reformation is set at October 31, 1517.

The 95 Theses of Luther was nailed to the court house door in Whittenberg, Germany.

The burning of the papal bull was Luther’s final renunciation of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Emperor seized Martin Luther at the Diet at Worms.

Luther translated the New Testament into German at Wartburg.

The unequal free exercise of religion caused the Lutheran princes to protest and their doctrines caused them to be known as the Protestant religion.

In 1512, Jacques Lefevre preached justification by faith, bringing about the terrible massacre of St. Bartholomew’s day.

Roman Catholicism received almost a death blow at the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

There was no reformation in the Netherlands

Scriptural religion was a common platform for the Churches of the Reformation.

The reformers demanded a creed that would not enrage the rational mind.

The national churches assumed different forms, such as the Episcopal in England and the Presbyterian in Scotland.

Personal and spiritual religion are a part of the five principles of the Reformation.

The Council of Trent was called to investigate and put an end to the abuses that had started the reformation.

The end result of the Council of Trent was a liberal reformation of the Roman church.

In Spain, a few people were persecuted in the Inquisitions.

Counter Reformation by the Catholic Church brought about the conversion of all native races in South America and Mexico.

Desiderius Erasmus was a strong reformer.

The Puritans were strongly in favor of the Anglican system under Queen Elizabeth.

The Puritans were solidly in favor of the Presbyterian form of Church government.

The Puritans were not for popular rights.

Out of the Puritan movement arose the Presbyterian, Congregational and Baptist churches.

John Wesley was a Presbyterian minister who found the reality of a spiritual religion among the Moravians.

The Methodist Church in England was known as “Wesleyan Methodists.”

The rationalist movement was at its height when Friedreich Strauss published his “Life of Jesus”.

3 men who turned the rationalist thought to orthodox were____.

The beginning of the Anglo-Catholic movement began July, 1855.

John Henry Newman wrote many “Tracts for the times” in the Anglo- Catholic movement.

Carey had an excellent education but was a poor linguist.

The “Haystack Prayer Meeting” prompted the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Richard Hooker had nothing to do with the constitution of the Church of England.

Jonathan Edwards, besides being foremost in America in metaphysics, was the greatest theologian of the 18th century in America and England.

John Henry Newman was a great writer but a lousy preacher, and failed as the Anglo Catholic movement of the 19th century.