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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Death of God?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At this synod, the modern Christian creed, called ________ was first promulgated.
(a) The Constantine Creed.
(b) The Nicaea Creed.
(c) The Nicene Creed.
(d) The Nice Creed.

2. To what common element does Armstrong point in all the progressive developments in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions and, in the same vein, includes the introduction of the Buddhist worship of the Bodhisattvas?
(a) Fear.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Rules.

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

4. The development of a Christian mystic tradition blossomed in ____________ century.
(a) The sixteenth.
(b) The fourteenth.
(c) The fifteenth.
(d) The thirteenth.

5. What is the phenomenon which emerged contemporaneously with the rationalization of the Enlightenment?
(a) The "religion of the soul."
(b) The "religion of the mind."
(c) The "religion of the heart."
(d) The "religion of the people."

Short Answer Questions

1. The early followers of Jesus prayed _____________.

2. After the synod, confusion still reigned in the Christian church with a competing philosophy developing at ________.

3. The Sufis claimed that they experienced God through ____________.

4. Other religious traditions such as the Buddhist tradition insist that the Absolute is ______________.

5. Prior to Augustine's conversion to Christianity, he had repulsed any idea of __________.

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