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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement does Armstrong identify as a possible direction for a new philosophy for religion and God?
(a) The Christian Fundamentalist movement.
(b) The Quaker movement.
(c) The Orthodox Jewish movement.
(d) The Islamic movement of the Falsufahs.

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

3. The effect of this behavior towards Jewish people was ____________.
(a) To return to a traditional form of Kabbalism.
(b) To evoke a new form of Kabbalism.
(c) To end Kabbalism.
(d) To begin Kabbalism.

4. During the twelfth century, European scholars had flocked to Spain to study ____________.
(a) Buddhist theology.
(b) Jewish theology.
(c) Muslim theology.
(d) Christian theology.

5. Despite the conservatism occasioned by the rise of _____________ and the suppression of independent reasoning in the Sunni madrasahs, scholars, such as Mulla Sadr (ca 1571-1640), taught a philosophy that fused metaphysics and spirituality.
(a) The Shariah laws.
(b) The Messiah laws.
(c) The Shari laws.
(d) The Muslim laws.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To rationalize the shock of his death by crucifixion, his followers subscribed to the belief that ________.

3. Was tolerance of other religions was evident in Christian Spain?

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

5. This competing philosophy formed the basis of the theology of __________.

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