Chapter 4 Self Quiz - True/False

. "Biblical criticism," as it applies to biblical study, means to find the truth of sacred writings.

. Christianity is the largest religion in the world today.

. In nineteenth-century America the growth of industrialization fueled urbanization, which was accompanied by a dramatic growth in both Protestant and Catholic churches.

. The highest goal of life in Christianity is to learn from history.

. Media coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925 made the general public think that fundamentalists were ignorant hillbilly types.

. Both Protestant and Catholic antimodernist responses wanted to prevent modernization and historical change from entering the church.

. Pius IX called the First Vatican Council in 1869 because he felt the Catholic Church had become too strong and powerful.

. Most of Paul's letters to the churches he founded were lost, and therefore, none made it into the New Testament.

. Christianity began as a Jewish sectarian movement.

. The Gospel of John was the earliest New Testament writing.

. Each Gospel had a single author, whom we know for certain the identity of.

. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 declared that Jesus was wholly divine.

. Early Christian teaching typically blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus, a view that contributed to the persecution of Jews throughout much of Western history.

. Eastern Orthodox Christianity leaves no room for individual mystical experience.

. In the Middle Ages, most people learned about religion by reading.

. Since the time of Augustine, most Christians have assumed that it is the role of Christianity to transform every society into a "Christian society."

. Monasticism is the most recent reform movement in the church.

. The first followers of Jesus of Nazareth believed that the earth is not at the center of the universe.

. In 1920 the movement popularly referred to as "fundamentalism" was understood to refer to militantly antimodernist evangelical Protestants.

. The first monks were community oriented.

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