Church History Final

Question 1

What is the Lausanne Movement?

Answer 1

Held by Billy Graham.
A desire to learn how to spread the gospel.
How to get the gospel to the hardest places.

Question 2

Who drafted the Lausanne movement?

Answer 2

John Stott

Question 3

What was John Stott’s contribution to the Lausanne movement?

Answer 3

Provided the view that missions included evangelism and justice. Must do both, but the priority is evangelism

Question 4

Who coined the phrase “unreached people group”?

Answer 4

Ralph Winter

Question 5

In ecumenism, what was the difference between missions vs. mission?

Answer 5

Missions - bad in their opinion, to convert people

Mission - divorced from conversion; god glorified himself through a better life

Question 6

What is the social gospel?

Answer 6

Focused more on improving life here and now on earth.

Question 7

What are the three waves of the continuationist movement?

Answer 7

First wave = Pentacostalism
Second wave = Charismatics
Third wave = neo-charismatics

Question 8

What is word-faith gospel?

Answer 8

Essentially the prosperity gospel

Question 9

What do pentacostals believe?

Answer 9

Speaking in tongues is proof of the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. All christians should practice speaking in tongues.

Question 10

Who spoke in tongues, thus sparking a wave of speaking in tongues?

Answer 10

Agnes Ozment at Bethel Bible College

Question 11

What happened racially with the coming of pentacostalism?

Answer 11

For the first time in 15 years, whites and blacks freely worshiped side by side

Question 12

What is l’abri?

Answer 12

Equip christians to engage in the secular culture. Begun by Francis Shaeffer as a shelter for travelers to discuss philosophical and religious beliefs.

Question 13

What is the New Religious right?

Answer 13

The most visible movement. Coalition which included mostly of evangelicals and fundamentals.

Question 14

What is black liberation theology?

Answer 14

A theological perspective which contextualized christianity in an attempt to help African americans overcome opression

Question 15

To what does the separated brethren refer?

Answer 15

A term coined by the catholic church, which claimed that members outside of the catholic tradition as “separated brethren” Which before, they were considered heretics.

Question 16

What is the Scopes Trial?

Answer 16

A low point for fundamentalism. Teaching evolution banned

Question 17

New Hampshire confession of faith

Answer 17

Stratton attempted Northern Baptists to adhere to this, but it didn’t prevail because Northern Baptists wanted the New Testament to be the only confession of faith and practice.

Question 18

Who wrote Christianity in Liberalism? and what was it

Answer 18

J. Gresham Machen. It outlined fundamentalist presbyterianism.

Question 19

What was the ecumenical movement?

Answer 19

Came from the Roman Catholic’s attempt to reconcile with the protestant church.

Question 20

Edinburgh Missionary Conference

Answer 20

John R. Mott - Led organization called the Student Volunteer Movement. intended to put a focus on denominational unity.
Led to the formation of the World Counsel of Churches
Emphasis on unity and purpose rather than unity and doctrine.

Question 21

Walter Rauschenbush

Answer 21

The Social Gospel
Served in Hell’s Kitchen
Opened his eyes to economic plight in the city
Held to evangelical understanding of conversion
Highlighted ethical implications behind the gospel rather than doctrine itself

Question 22

Modernism

Answer 22

Religion common to humanity
• Christian superiority vs. Christian exclusivity
Immanence over transcendence
Optimistic Neo-Pelagianism
Optimistic eschatology (postmillennialism)
Neo-Arian view of Jesus
Historical-critical hermeneutics and Darwinism

Question 23

What is fundamentalism?

Answer 23

originally referred to evangelical protestants who were conservative dissenters against progressive theological and social trends in the church and the broader culture during the first half of the twentieth century

Question 24

What was The Fundamentals?

Answer 24

A series of printed pamphlets that argued for conservative protestant orthodoxy, biblical inerrancy, deity of Christ

Question 25

What was the Cambridge Seven?

Answer 25

Seven students from Cambridge university who decided to become missionaries to china. They were prominent students who gave up their wealth to become missionaries. Their commitment spurred thousands of others to become missionaries

Question 26

What is the Student Volunteer Movement?

Answer 26

college mission initiative
“The Evangelization of the world in this generation.”
Attempt to mobilize collegians to reach the nations with the gospel
Became popular b/c the Cambridge Seven

Question 27

Edinburgh Missionary conference

Answer 27

Culmination of SVN
Called for interdenominational support and work for translating Bibles
put differences aside to share the gospel together and translate the bible
Gives birth to many more parachurch ministries
Only protestants participated
Also helps to launch the modern ecumenical council

Question 28

What are parachurch ministries and what are some examples?

Answer 28

Interdenominational ministries • with a narrow focus
• China inland Mission & Africa Inland Mission
• Wheaton College, Gordon College, Moody Bible Institute, Bible Institute of Los
Angeles
• YMCA, YWCA, urban rescue missions
• Holiness conferences, prophecy conferences, and Sunday school conferences

Question 29

Holiness Movements

Answer 29

Camp movements that promoted entire sanctification. it included ongoing fillings of the spirit. Temporary victory over sin. Heightened evangelism empowerment.

Question 30

Plymouth Brethren

Answer 30

Persuades evangelical American believers to become dispensationalists

Question 31

The Secret Rapture

Answer 31

God will secretly remove from the earth the mostly Gentile church in order to fulfill prophecies among ethnic Israel

Question 32

C.I. Scofield

Answer 32

Promoting Dispensationalism. Rightly Dividing the word of Truth and Scofield Reference Bible.

Question 33

Biblical Inerrancy

Answer 33

the bible, in its original autographs, is free of any biographical errors.
◦ It always speaks truthfully.
◦ Not exhaustively, but truthfully to anything that it touches - such as science or biology