Each of the following is true except

a. Marxism has a proven track record of both peaceful and productive history of advance

b. the philosophy of Marxism is Historical Materialism

c. Marxist economic theory is surplus in value

d. Marxist historiography is class conflict

a. Marxism has a proven track record of both peaceful and productive history of advance

Liberalism as an ideology advocates all of the following except:

a. an ethical emphasis on individual freedom & tolerance of pluralistic society

b. supports the right of state management of all property

c. desires a limited consitutional government democratically sanctioned

d. views itself as possessed of universal convictions based upon reason, science, technology, education and progress in the advancement of happiness.

b. supports the right of state management of all property

All of the following define liberal theology except:

a. believes in the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man

b. works to bring to history the kingdom of God with a humanist optmisim

c. adapts Christianity to modern culture

d. stresses redemption and salvation without forsaking the truth that God punishes sin

d. stresses redemption and salvation without forsaking the truth that God punishes sin

All of the followering were fundamentals of anti-modernist Evangelical fundamentalism except:

a. the errancy of Scripture

b. the virgin birth of Christ

c. the substitutionary atonment

d. the historical ressurection of Christ

a. the errancy of Scripture

the Scriptures

True or False:

According to McDuffe's reading of Richard Dadd's fantasy painting, "The fairy Feller's Master Stroke," if we fail to awaken each day to take up the life God has given us in Christ, then we might as well waste away the scarce resources of time, wealth and skills of the soul over which He has made us stewards by watching a fantasy figure strike imaginary hazel nuts

true

Which pope spoke infallibly by declaring the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary, that Mary had not died a bodily death, but had been taken directly up to heaven at the end of her earthly life?

Pope Pius XII

According to Dietrich Bonhoeffer cheap grace means all of the following except:

a. grace is a docgtrine, a principle, a system

b. grace is forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth

c. the love of God is taught as the Christian conception of God

d. an intellectual assent to the idea of grace is insufficient to secure remission of sins, with contrition required

d. an intellectual assent to the idea of grace is insufficient to secure remission of sins, with contrition required

conservative

Which of the following did the government promote throughout the Soviet Union before its collapse?

atheism

Mainline theological thinking of European institutional Christianity came to be characterized by all of the following except:

a. focus on human religious experience

b. solidarity with the world's poor and oppressed

c. personal relationship with Jesus leading to eternal bliss in heaven

d. salvation through political social and economic change

c. personal relationship with Jesus leading to eternal bliss in heaven

True or False:

The hallmark of the 19th Century Protestant consensus had been the preaching of the full gospel: the dual necessities of individual salvation from sin by the blood of Jesus Christ and of corporate dedication to pursuing social righteousness.

true

Pentecostalism

Who said this: "The participation of women in the early church was not an irregular accident, but rather the expression of an alternative world-view. Women were seen equally as the image of God. The equality of women and men at the original creation was understood as restored through Christ"?

Rosmary Radfort Reuther

True or False

Up until the mid-1990's, the most significan trend after World War II throughout the world was the success of Third World nationalism.

true

All of the following is true about liberation theology except

a. Biblical stories were read as mythological symbols for the struggle of justice and personal liberation

b. God calls Christians to active involvement with people who suffer

c. liberation defined exclusively as freedom from oppressive social, economic and political conditions

d. theology should be praxis, that is, it should be done

c. liberation defined exclusively as freedom from oppressive social, economic and political conditions

Pentecostal Protestants

The independent church movement fluorishes most where?

Africa

Desmond Tutu

Mother Teresa

True or False:

The sufferings of the Chinese church under Communist rule had actually weakened the church, and caused it to shrink in size between the years 1949 and 1978.

false

The cultivation of an Arab nationalist political program arose within the joint English-French military strategy aimed at defeating what Empire in the World War I?

Ottoman

The Treaty of Versilles signed in 1919 included all of the following elements except:

a. League of nations among the nations of Europe

b. Mandate system executed by victorious powers

c.Punitive measures imposed against defeated

d. Upholding of the political principle of self-determination

a. League of nations among the nations of Europe

The League of Nations established what principles as a foundation of world order?

Nationalism

Only the fissure caused by the Reformation matched the cultural and political split in Europe caused by what set of ideas?

Bolshevism

With the beginning of the 20th century, what new realm of the human condition was discovered, explored and explained as crucial to understanding human behavior.

unconscious experience

What nation suffered the highest proportionate loss of any participant in World War I.

Serbia

Europe's greatest and most spectacular age of unchangeable power ended by the year:

1914

With what nation was a treaty struck as part of the peace settlement ending WWI that was negotiated between equals and not imposed upon a defeated power?

Turkey

What incident provoked by what nation has been seen as the opening of the Second World War.

Chinese by Japan

Through immigration after World War I, Jews increased their presence in what territory once ruled by the defeated sultanate and caliphate at the Ottoman Empire?

Palestine

The prevailing civilization in Europe and America threatened by the Great Depression between WWI and WWII may best be described as

Liberal

In what

In what country did fascist political activism succeed in mastering historical conservatism?

Germany

All of the following contributed to the success of fascism in Italy and Germany except:

a. economic collapse and disillusioned nationalist aspirations

b. rejection of liberalism

c. strong support from Roman Catholicism

d. violent anti-Marxism

c. strong support from Roman Catholicism

Between the two world wars the primary impetus for political ideology driving foreign policy was derived from

internal communism

How many successful communist or socialist revolutions were there in Europe between WWI and WWII?

none

Hitler was able to secure legally acquired power in Germany through all of the following means except:

a. identify the Treaty of Versailles as a source of German trouble

b. promoting anti-Semitism

c. stressing rabid nationalism and biological purity of the German people

d. taking fullest advantage of the opportunities provided by economic prosperity and stability

d. taking fullest advantage of the opportunities provided by economic prosperity and stability

What single political decision more than any other sealed the eclipse of European power in international relations after WWII?

Hitler's declaration of war against America

All of the following countries in Europe were neutral during WWII except

Bulgaria

Each of the following was one of the four great battles fought during 1942-1943, that worked as turning points in WWII except:

a. Battle of the Pacific

b. Midway Island

c. North Africa

d. Stalingrad

a. Battle of the Pacific

The Holocaust was a unique atrocity for all of the following reasons except:

a. challenged the validity of European civilization

b. dampened belief about human nature, its rational self-direction, benevolence and progressive improvement

c. registered as the act of genocide with the greatest number of deaths

d. undercut there being any meaning to European history

c. registered as the act of genocide with the greatest number of deaths

True or False:
To understand WWII as a moral struggle is to remember that the victors met and overcame the greatest challenge liberal civilization has ever faced, even if that challenge was somehow a creation of that civilization

true

Communism seeks

revolutionary overthrow of capitalism

Of the seven European state-empire that continued to exist after 1945, which was the last to collapse between 1989 and 1991?

USSR

True or False

No matter what the ideological nature of the Russian state, a strong, united Germany would always be seen as a danger to Russian interests

true

After WWII, What step did the Truman administration take that may well be considered the most important decision of American diplomacy and foreign policy since the early nineteenth century

contain Russian power

The Great Awakening opposed all of the following except:

a. Pious, internal religiosity

b. Rationalism

c. Liberal attitudes of the Enlightenment

d. Abandoning simplicity of faith and trust in God.

d. Abandoning simplicity of faith and trust in God.

True or False

American civil religion equates virtue and divine providence with American interests and American history

True

national religion

The dominant fact of the 19th century in Europe and North America was the

industrial revolution

The shift from mercantilism to lissez-faire style capitalism strengthened most which of the following:

private business people

The Industrial Revolution

changed social economic relations and the nature of labor

Christian social reform movements of the nineteenth century were founded on the ______________view of the future

postmillenial

Richard Allen

The revivals of the nineteenth century were

enormous in scale in both America and Europe

The most successful new religion to develop in the nineteenth century was

the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

At the height of the Age of Europan Imperialism, during the long nineteenth century (up until 1914), what percent of the world's population lived in countries that were or had been parts of European empires

85%

The primary response of Protestant Christians to the imperial reality of the nineteenth century was

missions

The independen African church movement was defined by all of the following except:

a. appeared in Africa in late 19th century

b. by 1950 encompassed 25% of total African Christian population

c. expressed efforts by Africans to make Christianity indigenously African

d. denied leadership roles to non-European Christians

d. denied leadership roles to non-European Christians

More confessing Christian missionaries, Prestest and Catholic, went to ________ in the period 1750-1950 than to any other part of the glob.

Asia

All of the following is true of the Taiping movement in China except:

a. Anticipation of independent Chinese church

b. a massive peace movement known as Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace

c. combined Christian faith with notions of abolishing private property and promotiting equality of men and women

d. declared anothersavior after Jesus was needed.

b. a massive peace movement known as Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace

True or False

Christianity in Korea came to be identified not with imperialism, but rather with active opposition to it

true

If you were to select a single factor that best described the cause for Christianity to spread throughout Korea church, according to Spickard & Craig it would be

prayer

Christianity suffered its greatest defeat in which Asian nation

Japan

According to Spickard & Craig, which of the following may best be described as the dominant trend of the twentieth century?

Third World nationalism

operate as if God does not exist

True or False

Secularity deeply affects most modern people, including Christian, by convincing us as a given that most of life's problems can be solved by purely secular or scientifi means.

true

The __________ is the essecne of the secular mindset and the hallmark of modern Wester life and thought

non-necessity of God

Secular views of human nature include all of the following except

a. an autonomous rational self

b. individual as a product of cultural, social, and economic forces

c. people as the product of evolutionary process

d. see people as primarily fully conscious rational beings

d. see people as primarily fully conscious rational beings

Since the end of WWII (1935-1945), the predominant theme in international politics have been

decolonization

Modern theologians tended to respond to secularity in all of the following ways except:

a. accommodation

b. forsaking the use of reason

c. mutual tranformation

d. reaction

b. forsaking the use of reason

Which theologian represented the gospel as a solution to the threat of non-being as the Christ as the new being who overcomes it?

Paul Tillich

Which theologian taught that Scripture and the preaching of the church becomes God's Word in the event of Jesus Christ becoming real and active in people's lives

Karl Barth

According to Spickard & Craig the church of Christ to thrive in the modern world must do all of the following except:

a. listen to people outside the church

b. learn how to meet their spiritua, physical and intellecutal needs

c. not lose itself in the world by immersion in any contemporary agenda for the improvement of humanity

d. tell people of their sinfulness and that they cannot save themselves while denying or hiding that the church suffers the consequences of sinfulness among its confessing members.

d. tell people of their sinfulness and that they cannot save themselves while denying or hiding that the church suffers the consequences of sinfulness among its confessing members.

True or False

One of secularity's most significant manifestations is the pervasive privatization of relition in Western society

true

All of the following conform to McDuffee's understanding of American Civil Religion except:

a. Protestant Christianity has greatly influenced American life but it is not the fundamental faith of American culture

b. Biblical Christianity does not oversee America' public life nor does it serve as the sacred agency of American legitimacy

c. The god of American civil religion is a syncretistic god, formed of ideas mixing truths of the Bible with believs of the American enlightenment

d. The Christian nation is a legitimate biblical concept

d. The Christian nation is a legitimate biblical concept

True or False

According to McDuffee the single most significant American theological contribution to the healthy growth and governance of the living church is the establishment and prohibition clause of the first article of the Bill of Rights amended to the Constitution of the US in 1791, which protects the church from both federal government authorization and infringement

true

By 1815 in both England and France and increasintly throughout Europe all of the following were growing in acceptance about the state except:

a. sovereign

b. legally unrestrained

c. without restriction upon its power to make laws

d. legitimacy of sovereignty of society for humankind

d. legitimacy of sovereignty of society for humankind

Agricultural change is as the heart of the appearance of the industrialized socity as a new kind of society for humankind

true

Within the world economic system of the nineteenth century, which country was the greatest trading nation

Great Britain

All of the following were true of the city in the nineteenth century:

a. allowed for anonymity and less scrutiny by community leaders and members

b. disrupted traditional pattern of behavior

c. offered exposure to ideas of social change and reform

d. promoted religious devotion and increased church attendance

d. promoted religious devotion and increased church attendance

True or False

The modern European civilization, which is the first modern civilization as far as we know, does not have some formal structure of religious belief at its heart

true

The materialism of the nineteenth century included all of the following social and cultural characteristics except:

a. greater availability of material goods

b. history determined by material forces

c. people experiencing less freedom of choice and greater control over their environment

d. reliance upon material explanations rather than supernatural ones for explaining nature and society

c. people experiencing less freedom of choice and greater control over their environment

In the nineteenth century the further the development of Science took on mythological status in Europe for all of the following except:

a. growing public esteem enjoyed by science

b. increased self-confidence of scientists

c. shaped the way how people looked at the world like other world religions

d. there is no exception all of the above are true

d. there is no exception all of the above are true

The new politics of the nineteenth century was defined and driven by all of the following principles except:

a. dynasticism

b. individual as basis of political and social organization

c. nationalism

d. search for what was willed by those who wishes ought legitimately prevail

a. dynasticism

war-time medical service of nursing

By 1900 European global hegemony was expressed in all of the following ways except:

a. apart from Africa all of the world was integrated into a European system of economic and military influence

b. European civilization was accepted univerally for the first time in world history as a model for all to follow.

c. for the first time in history labor and production demands could be connected through a global transportation system.

d.. the world responded to European initiatives

a. apart from Africa all of the world was integrated into a European system of economic and military influence

Subcontinent of India

In 1914 more than ________ percent of the world's land surface was under European sway, with Russia and Great Britain holding about _______________ of the world's land area in their respective empire

80, one third

For the past two centuries ___________ has been the most successful revolutionary force of modern politiccs

nationalism

The authority, legitimacy and crediblity of the Scriptures were undermined by all of the following except:

a. fewer people were responding to the Gospel, thus, there was a reduction in the number of people confessing Christ as their Lord and Savior

b. prestige of science increased as the supreme instrument for the manipulation of nature

c. technology resulted in changes in the lives of ordinary men and women, giving greater status to science than religion

d. textual critics challenged the Bible as an accurate record of history

a. fewer people were responding to the Gospel, thus, there was a reduction in the number of people confessing Christ as their Lord and Savior

The one principle of governance over social life that all ruling classes everywhere in Europe took as unalterable dogma was ___________

sanctity of possessing private property

true

All of the following reasons justify recognizing the unique nature and unprecedented psychological and cultural effects of WWI except

a. deadliest war in the history of war up until 1914

b. first war to fully manifest the impact of modern science and technology

c. no war of aggression of such magnitude before its outbreak had ever before been imagined, anticipated and predicted by so many

d. war of widest geographic scoppe in the history of war up until 1914

c. no war of aggression of such magnitude before its outbreak had ever before been imagined, anticipated and predicted by so many