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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was considered blasphemous by Jews and later by Muslims?
(a) The Trinity.
(b) The Ark of the Covenant.
(c) Manifest Destiny.
(d) God the Father.

2. The application of their method to the Koran was also influenced by ____________ teachings.
(a) Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist.
(b) Jewish, Gnostic, and Hindu.
(c) Persian, Indian, and Gnostic.
(d) Persian, Buddhist, and Hindu.

3. Thomas Aquinas made a lasting contribution to Western Christianity by trying to synthesize ____________.
(a) Muslim and Greek philosophy.
(b) Augustine and Greek philosophy.
(c) Greek and Buddhist philosophy.
(d) Augustine and Muslim philosophy.

4. The Greek influence on theology formed the core of the idea of ____________.
(a) Manifest Destiny.
(b) God the Father.
(c) Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
(d) A Divine Trinity.

5. In Judaism, mysticism developed in the second and third centuries starting with ____________.
(a) The Throne of God.
(b) The Throne Mysticism.
(c) The God Incarnate.
(d) The God of Mysticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The emergence of the cult of Jesus from the established church of Judaism was accompanied by passionate dispute, and many disciples of Jesus ____________.

2. The development of a Christian mystic tradition blossomed in ____________ century.

3. Whose preaching resulted in the belief that the newly emerging religion could and should be embraced by the Gentiles?

4. Does the expression "Son of God" bear the same connotation in Hebrew as it does in Greek?

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

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