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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A God for Reformers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Darwin's ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES seemed to ____________.
(a) Enhance the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(b) Support the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(c) Question the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(d) Negate the story of the Creation in Genesis.

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

3. The early followers of Jesus prayed _____________.
(a) In the temple alongside other Jews.
(b) In their homes.
(c) In their own temples.
(d) They did not pray.

4. What had happened by 235 CE?
(a) The Christian church had spread to the Americas.
(b) The power of the Christian church had ended.
(c) The Christian church had been banned from the Roman Empire.
(d) The Christian church had become one of the most important religions in the Roman Empire and a bastion of stability.

5. Nietzsche proclaimed that God ____________.
(a) Never existed.
(b) Was in hiding.
(c) Is in all things.
(d) Was dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even by that time the historical facts were being overlaid with mythical elements, which did ___________.

2. A similar intellectual movement developed among the Jews in the Islamic empire who did not accept the doctrine of ____________.

3. According to Karen Armstrong's research, did this man claim to be God?

4. In Europe, scientists such as _______________, published their own theories as to the meaning and role of God in modern life, while, in England, the physicist Isaac Newton extended his opus magnus "Philosophiae Natruralis Principia" to prove God's existence.

5. In the west the Christian form of mysticism rested not on imagery, but on ____________.

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