Sardis & Philadelphia

Question 1

What name implies “remnant,” that came out of the Roman church?

Answer 1

Sardis

Question 2

A Roman Catholic organization for priests and monks.

Answer 2

Monastery

Question 3

List the three doctrinal pillars of the Protestant Reformation.

Answer 3

• Salvation by grace through faith
• The priesthood of every believer
• The supremacy of the Scriptures over church tradition

Question 4

Representative of the pope who arrived in Wittenberg, Germany, to sell indulgences, which supposedly would exempt a person from purgatory for a given period of time.

Answer 4

Tetzel

Question 5

An intermediary place of fiery punishment taught by the Roman church.

Answer 5

Purgatory

Question 6

In what date did Martin Luther, a monk and university professor, publish 95 Theses against the false teachings of the church of Rome, starting the Protestant Reformation? Where?

Answer 6

October 31, 1517; Wittenberg

Question 7

What new church did Luther organize which eventually became the state church of several European countries, including Scandinavia?

Answer 7

Lutheran Church

Question 8

What famous reformer of Switzerland became known as the “people’s priest”? What city council defended his beliefs?

Answer 8

Ulrich Zwingli; Zurich

Question 9

Who were some of the earliest protesters of the evils of the Roman church? Their name means rebaptizers. They exerted the most influence in Switzerland, Holland, and Germany.

Answer 9

Anabaptists

Question 10

German-born Protestant pastor in Switzerland who joined the Anabaptist movement and who was later burned to death in a public square in Vienna.

Answer 10

Balthasar Hubmaier

Question 11

One of the most influential Anabaptists in history whose two most significant publications are Renunciation of Rome and Foundation Book.

Answer 11

Menno Simons

Question 12

What were the Protestants in France called?

Answer 12

Huguenots

Question 13

Scottish reformer who prayed: “Give me Scotland, or I die.” He led the Scottish Parliament, which outlawed the Roman Catholic mass and ended papal rule over the Scottish church.

Answer 13

John Knox

Question 14

Scottish nobles who covenanted together to combat the idolatry of Roman Catholicism and establish the Word of God in Scotland.

Answer 14

Covenanters

Question 15

What denomination had its beginning in Scotland?

Answer 15

Presbyterian

Question 16

What English king left Roman Catholicism when he could not get the Roman church’s permission to divoirce and remarry?

Answer 16

King Henry VIII

Question 17

England’s Protestant queen during the Spanish Armada.

Answer 17

Elizabeth

Question 18

In the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, more than how many Huguenots were massacred under the order of the French king?

Answer 18

20,000

Question 19

Order of prists who were probably the most cruel and fierce in their tactics to regain power and influence for the Catholic church. Their philosophy was “the end justifies the means.”

Answer 19

Jesuits

Question 20

What was the first country to allow religious freedom for each person to belong to the church of his choice and to permit churches to control themselves?

Answer 20

United States of America

Question 21

What group in the 1600s sought to purify the Church of England from the religious formalism, ritualism, and coldness that engulfed it?

Answer 21

Puritans

Question 22

What group were similar to the Anabaptists in that they insisted on remaining “separate” from the state churches?

Answer 22

Separatists (dissenters)

Question 23

Puritan preacher with strong Baptist convictions who believed that the church should not controlled by the state. His influence later caused the new American government to grant religious freedom to individuals as well as to churches.

Answer 23

Roger Williams

Question 24

French king who granted religious freedom to the Huguenots with the Edict of Nantes in 1598. What king revoked it, forcing the Huguenots to leave France?

Answer 24

Henry IV; Louis XIV

Question 25

Type of letter the pope sent Luther, accusing him of heresy.

Answer 25

Papal bull

Question 26

The place where Luther hid for two years, translating the New Testament into German.

Answer 26

Wartburg Castle

Question 27

What Greek word means "brotherly love"?

Answer 27

Philadelphia

Question 28

What particular groups of Christians had a strong influence in the early beginnings of the revival period of the 1700s?

Answer 28

Pietists and Moravians

Question 29

The Pietist movement began in Germany under the leadership of what German Lutheran pastor?

Answer 29

Philipp Spener

Question 30

What young professor at the University of Leipzig in Germany did Spener help get a position at the newly founded *University of Halle*, which became an important center of Pietism? The early Pietist who set a standard for education in Germany.

Answer 30

August Francke

Question 31

A group, founded by John Huss in the 1400s, that was separate from Europe's state churches; they become the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.

Answer 31

Moravians

Question 32

One of the most influential Christian leaders in Europe and the catalyst of the modern missionary movement; offered refuge to the Moravians on his estate Herrnhut.

Answer 32

Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf

Question 33

The year Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann set sail for St. Thomas, thus beginning the modern missionary movement.

Answer 33

1732

Question 34

Man who was saved through the ministry of the Moravians and whom God later used to help bring revival to the English people; generally credited with founding the Methodist Church.

Answer 34

John Wesley

Question 35

The most famous founder of orphanages in England.

Answer 35

George Müller

Question 36

"The Father of Modern Mission" whom the Moravians inspired; preached for seven years until he got his first native convert; had translated the Bible or parts of it into forty dialects and languages.

Answer 36

William Carey

Question 37

America's greatest thinker who wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." When?

Answer 37

Jonathan Edwards; 1741

Question 38

The most popular preacher in England and later the best-known man in the American colonies; prince of English evangelists.

Answer 38

George Whitefield

Question 39

What were Whitefield and those who followed him called, because their message was a new method: salvation by grace?

Answer 39

Methodists

Question 40

Young black poet and the second American woman to publish a book of poems.

Answer 40

Phillis Wheately

Question 41

The greatest hymn writer of all ages.

Answer 41

Charles Wesley

Question 42

What do historians refer to the 1700s as, crediting it with saving England from a bloody, political revolution?

Answer 42

Wesleyan Revival

Question 43

Who organized the *Salvation Army*?

Answer 43

General William Booth

Question 44

Who initiated the Plymouth Brethren movement?

Answer 44

John Darby

Question 45

One of the great Christian statesmen of English history whose book was partly responsible for the "reformation of manners" at the highest levels of English society; led the move in England to abolish slavery.

Answer 45

William Wilberforce

Question 46

"Father of the Sunday School Movement," the beginning of popular education in Great Britain.

Answer 46

Robert Raikes

Question 47

Who had traveled fifty thousand miles and spent thousands of pounds of his own money to bring about *prison reform*?

Answer 47

John Howard

Question 48

What black slave became the first ordained preacher in America and started Jamaica's first Baptist church? The first American to go to a foreign land to preach the gospel.

Answer 48

George Liele

Question 49

Young Methodist evangelist who established churches and Bible studies on America's western frontier and trained young *circuit-riding preachers.*

Answer 49

Francis Asbury

Question 50

One of the best known Methodist circuit-riders who preached the gospel throughout the backwoods of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois for over fifty years.

Answer 50

Peter Cartwright

Question 51

What is the impact of Charles Finney's revivals often referred to as?

Answer 51

Second Great Awakening

Question 52

Slave who came to know Christ as his Savior on a Virginia plantation and who thoroughly studied the Bible.

Answer 52

John Jasper

Question 53

"Prince of the American pulpit."

Answer 53

T. Dewitt Talmage

Question 54

Religious practice in which girl brides and old widows were bound to the bodies of their dead husbands and held down by long poles in the fire.

Answer 54

Suttee

Question 55

“Prince of preachers” who preached more than 5,000 weekly for almost forty years.

Answer 55

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Question 56

What Scottish missionary became the great pathfinder for the unexplored continent of Africa? The first European who ever saw "Sounding Smoke," which he named *Victoria Falls*.

Answer 56

David Livingstone

Question 57

What English bricklayer spent nearly 50 years of missionary service in the distant South Pacific island of Tahiti?

Answer 57

Henry Nott

Question 58

What missionary in China is called the father of faith missions? By the end of his death, there were 849 "faith missionaries" and 205 mission stations.

Answer 58

J. Husdon Taylor

Question 59

One of the first interdenominational "faith mission" organizations; founded by Hudson Taylor.

Answer 59

China Inland Mission

Question 60

What English missionary traveled up and down the rivers of central Africa, sharing the Gospel?

Answer 60

George Grenfell

Question 61

What Canadian Presbyterian missionary spent his life in China laboring patiently to win souls among the Chinese people?

Answer 61

Jonathan Goforth

Question 62

What German theologian initiated higher criticism and modernism?

Answer 62

Julius Wellhausen

Question 63

Using man's wisdom to critique the word of God.

Answer 63

Higher criticism

Question 64

Discarding faith in the Scriptures for faith in man's wisdom.

Answer 64

Modernism

Question 65

English naturalist who in 1859 published *The Origin of Species*, which was immediately embraced by unbelievers as the evolutionist's answer to the origins of man and the universe.

Answer 65

Charles Darwin

Question 66

The father of progressive education who integrated the philosophy of evolution into the American educational system, who minimized the important of subject content, and who advocated permissiveness in the classcroom.

Answer 66

John Dewey

Question 67

Austrian physician whose many ideas of human behavior is espoused by modern psychology and who promoted the view that sexual instinct is the driving force behind all human actions.

Answer 67

Sigmund Freud

Question 68

Counterfeit church groups that go under the guise of Christianity; their one basic error is salvation by works.

Answer 68

Cults

Question 69

Whose followers are known as **Mormons** or The **Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints** (**LDS**)?

Answer 69

Joseph Smith

Question 70

Joseph Smith's successor who led his Mormon followers to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Answer 70

Brigham Young

Question 71

A Millerite who claimed to receive revelations from God through visions or dreams, which formed the basis for the teachings of the **Seventh-Day Adventist Church**.

Answer 71

Ellen G. White

Question 72

Pastor of the **Watchtower Bible and Tract Society**, which was first published by the magazine *Zion's Watchtower* and which was renamed **Jehovah's Witnesses** by J. F. Rutherford.

Answer 72

Charles Taze Russell

Question 73

The meeting place of Jehovah Witnesses.

Answer 73

Kingdom Hall

Question 74

Who became profoundly absorbed in questions about sickness and health and produced the book *Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, the textbook of Christian Science?

Answer 74

Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy

Question 75

The healers of Christian Science who try to persuade their patients that sickness exists only as an error in the mind.

Answer 75

Practitioners

Question 76

What couple teamed their talents to promote the **Unity School of Christianity**, a worldwide organization that perceives itself as more of a school than a church?

Answer 76

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore

Question 77

Cult that began when a young merchant, calling himself the "Bab" (Gate), began to preach the coming of a great prophet; its main objective is unity––religious, social, and economic; calls for the one world government of the Anti-christ.

Answer 77

Bahá'í

Question 78

What sisters began the cult of Spiritualism by developing a code which supposedly enabled them to communicate with the spirit world, though they later admitted that their system was a hoax?

Answer 78

Katherine and Margaret Fox

Question 79

Persons who allegedly have the ability to communicate with the spirit world.

Answer 79

Mediums

Question 80

The meetings that Spiritualists hold.

Answer 80

Séances

Question 81

Theosophy began with the teachings of whom, who combined the teachings of Spiritualism, Buddhism, and Hindusim, claiming that there is truth in all religions? At the heart of this cult is a pantheistic view of God.

Answer 81

Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky