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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By resolving the question of whether Jesus was human or divine, Christians inevitably had to conclude that _______.
(a) Jesus was not of our world.
(b) Jesus was the first Word of God.
(c) Jesus was the last Word of God.
(d) Jesus was the first and last Word of God.

2. The classic texts of this form of Judaic mysticism were written ____________.
(a) In Canaan in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(b) In Jerusalem in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(c) In Assyria in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(d) In Babylon in the fifth and sixth centuries.

3. The history of the emergence of the Judaic scriptures can be interpreted as ____________.
(a) The refinement and later abandonment of the tribal and personalized Yahweh.
(b) The refinement and later abandonment of the transpersonal Yahweh.
(c) The refinement and later acceptance of the transpersonal Yahweh.
(d) The refinement and later acceptance of the tribal and personalized Yahweh.

4. The concept of a Divine Trinity is largely the result of the teachings of ____________.
(a) Jesus.
(b) John.
(c) Paul.
(d) Augustine.

5. This competing philosophy formed the basis of the theology of __________.
(a) The Mormon Church.
(b) The Lutheran Church.
(c) The Eastern Orthodox Church.
(d) The Roman Catholic Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Muslims experienced problems with what passages in the Koran?

2. What was the belief in question?

3. More and more writers and philosophers struggle to develop ideas which might replace ____________.

4. What removes God from the personal human category to transcend the human attributes?

5. Christianity attempted to qualify the highly personalized cult of God incarnate by introducing ____________.

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