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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the teachings of the Northern European mystics affect the religious establishment?
(a) It angered them.
(b) It shocked them.
(c) It scared them.
(d) It excited them.

2. The first Zionists essentially follow a religion without ____________.
(a) The Son of God.
(b) A religious text.
(c) A God.
(d) Rules.

3. Was the idea of a personal God developed by all three of the monotheistic religions?
(a) No, only the Muslims.
(b) No, only the Jews.
(c) Yes.
(d) No, only the Christians.

4. The Muslims experienced problems with what passages in the Koran?
(a) Where God was described as exhibiting human acts such as "hearing" and judging.
(b) Where God was described as divine.
(c) Where man was described as exhibiting human acts such as "hearing" and judging.
(d) Where man was described as divine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a personal God necessary?

2. What are becoming more and more prevalent in Europe today?

3. Once "God" is presumed to exist as a separate external entity, humans can _____________.

4. What two philosophers had competing ideas regarding the nature of the Christian God?

5. The concept of a Divine Trinity is largely the result of the teachings of ____________.

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