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This canon of **39 books** (in the Protestant count) forms the theological and narrative foundation on which the New Testament builds. Early Christians did not start from scratch; they reread an ancient text.", "source": { "label": "Wikipedia — History of Christianity", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity" }, "studyGuideAnchor": "an-inherited-library", "illustration": { "imageSearchTerm": "ancient Torah scroll parchment", "imagePrompt": "An open ancient Torah scroll with Hebrew script, resting on aged parchment under soft light.", "alt": "An Inherited Library", "depictable": true, "credit": "Pexels · Maor Attias", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-person-reading-old-scroll-book-5192343/", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/christianity/images/l1-fact-old-testament.webp" }, "uid": "1acojd1dtr5ld" }, { "id": "l1-num-ot-books", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "numbers", "hebrew-bible" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Number of books in the Old Testament (Protestant count)" }, "value": 39, "unit": "books", "uid": "15x92hy1lrmd6o" }, { "id": "l1-def-tanak", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "hebrew-bible" ], "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "TaNaK" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament.", "short": "Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible" }, "uid": "108b7cclftrhm" }, { "id": "l1-fact-key-stories", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "origins", "hebrew-bible" ], "title": "Stories That Shaped a People", "body": "The Hebrew Bible's key narratives became essential reading for early Christians: the **Creation** of Adam and Eve, the **Fall** (original sin), **Noah and the Flood**, the **Tower of Babel**, the **Covenant with Abraham**, **Moses and the Exodus**, **David and Goliath**, and **Daniel** in the lions' den. Christians reread these stories as pointing toward Jesus.", "source": { "label": "Wikipedia — History of Christianity", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity" }, "studyGuideAnchor": "stories-that-shaped-a-people", "illustration": { "imageSearchTerm": "Stories That Shaped a People", "imagePrompt": "Stories That Shaped a People. 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Early Christians read these passages as foreshadowing Jesus — one of many places where they saw the Hebrew Scriptures pointing forward to a figure yet to come.", "source": { "label": "Wikipedia — History of Christianity", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity" }, "studyGuideAnchor": "isaiah-s-coming-servant", "curatedDistractors": [ "Pharisees", "Sadducees", "Essenes" ], "illustration": { "imageSearchTerm": "Isaiah scroll Dead Sea", "imagePrompt": "A weathered ancient scroll fragment with Hebrew text, displayed under protective glass in dim museum light.", "alt": "Isaiah's Coming Servant", "depictable": true, "credit": "Pexels · cottonbro studio", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/rabbi-taking-out-the-torah-scroll-from-the-aron-qodesh-5986502/", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/christianity/images/l1-fact-isaiah-servant.webp" }, "uid": "12rjsbu16webdw" }, { "id": "l1-cloze-jeremiah", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "origins", "hebrew-bible" ], "template": "The prophet Jeremiah promised a \"New ___,\" which Christians understood Jesus to fulfill.", "answer": "Covenant", "distractors": [ "Testament", "Kingdom", "Commandment" ], "explanation": "Jeremiah 31:31 speaks of a \"New Covenant.\" Christians interpreted Jesus as the fulfillment of that promise, the hinge between Hebrew Scripture and the new faith.", "uid": "434rm4ygs9ls" }, { "id": "l2-fact-bethlehem-birth", "shape": "fact", "tags": [ "jesus", "history" ], "title": "Born in Bethlehem", "body": "Jesus was born in **Bethlehem**, likely between **6 and 4 BCE**, to **Mary** and her husband **Joseph**, a carpenter from **Nazareth** in Galilee. The Gospels record a miraculous birth, a visit by Magi following a star, and a flight to Egypt to escape King Herod. 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The 6th-century monk **Dionysius Exiguus**, who devised the system, miscalculated. 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The Gospels were written after Paul's letters: **Mark** (~70 CE), **Matthew** (~85 CE), **Luke and Acts** (~95 CE), and **John** (~90–100 CE). 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More radical than Luther on worship — stripping churches of art and music — he split with Luther over the **Lord's Supper**: where Luther held to Christ's **real physical presence** in the bread and wine, Zwingli read it as **purely symbolic**, a memorial. 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It was defined progressively across the first four ecumenical councils, culminating in the **Nicene Creed** (381 CE). 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The **Catholic and Orthodox** churches recognize **seven**: Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Confession, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, and Holy Orders. Most **Protestant** churches recognize only **two** — Baptism and Communion — and tend to call them **ordinances**: acts of obedience that symbolically recall Christ's work rather than channels of grace in themselves.", "studyGuideAnchor": "what-is-a-sacrament", "illustration": { "imageSearchTerm": "communion bread wine chalice", "imagePrompt": "A close-up of a communion chalice and bread resting on an altar cloth.", "alt": "What Is a Sacrament?", "depictable": true, "credit": "Pexels · Robert Schrader", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/holy-communion-silver-chalice-and-wafers-display-37489110/", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/christianity/images/l8-fact-sacrament.webp" }, "uid": "vjxzzzqbblwp" }, { "id": "l8-def-sacrament", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sacraments" ], "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Sacrament" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "A physical rite believed to convey spiritual grace, such as Baptism or the Eucharist.", "short": "A rite that conveys grace" }, "uid": "j217fv11npcxj" }, { "id": "l8-def-eucharist", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sacraments" ], "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Eucharist" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "The sacrament of bread and wine recalling Christ's Last Supper; also called Communion, the Lord's Supper, or the Mass.", "short": "The bread-and-wine sacrament" }, "illustration": { "kind": "photo", "imagePrompt": "Photograph of bread and a chalice of red wine on a white altar cloth in a softly lit church, candlelight, shallow depth of field, solemn and reverent, photorealistic", "imageSearchTerm": "eucharist bread wine chalice", "alt": "Bread and a chalice of wine on an altar", "credit": "Pexels · Robert Schrader", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/holy-communion-silver-chalice-and-wafers-display-37489110/", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/christianity/images/l8-def-eucharist.webp" }, "uid": "as7gvu1dqoc2c" }, { "id": "l8-num-catholic-sacraments", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "numbers", "sacraments" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Number of sacraments recognized by the Catholic and Orthodox churches" }, "value": 7, "unit": "sacraments", "uid": "pzxqndlommxb" }, { "id": "l8-num-protestant-sacraments", "shape": "numeric", "tags": [ "numbers", "sacraments" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Number of sacraments most Protestant churches recognize" }, "value": 2, "unit": "sacraments", "uid": "o0dt98181x0cq" }, { "id": "l8-comparison-eucharist", "shape": "comparison", "tags": [ "theology", "sacraments" ], "prompt": "Which caption describes the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist?", "correct": { "caption": "Transubstantiation: the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ" }, "incorrect": { "caption": "Memorial only: the bread and wine are purely symbolic, with no real presence" }, "explanation": "Catholic teaching is transubstantiation. 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Pentecostalism's appeal lies in direct, experiential encounter with God, miraculous healing, and vibrant worship — features that resonate amid poverty and suffering. 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Key trends: the rise of the **\"nones,\"** now about **28%** of Americans, who claim no religious affiliation; the spread of **megachurches** (congregations of 2,000+); the enduring vitality of **Black churches** (Baptist, AME, COGIC) in civic life; and rapid growth among **Latino Catholics and Pentecostals**.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History (research compilation, Perplexity)" }, "studyGuideAnchor": "christianity-in-the-united-states-today", "illustration": { "imageSearchTerm": "American megachurch auditorium service", "imagePrompt": "The interior of a large modern American megachurch auditorium filled with worshippers during a service.", "alt": "Christianity in the United States Today", "depictable": true, "credit": "Pexels · Luis Quintero", "creditUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/congregation-standing-in-front-of-a-stage-and-praying-17026870/", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/christianity/images/l10-fact-us-trends.webp" }, "uid": "16akc7g1dcs3da" }, { "id": "l10-def-nones", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "united-states" ], "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "The \"nones\"" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "People who claim no religious affiliation — \"spiritual but not religious\" — now about 28% of Americans and a growing share.", "short": "Religiously unaffiliated Americans" }, "uid": "y9l9mluv9k8d" }, { "id": "l10-def-liberation-theology", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "debates" ], "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Liberation Theology" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "A movement from 1970s Latin America (Gustavo Gutiérrez) stressing God's \"preferential option for the poor\" and naming structural injustice as sin.", "short": "Preferential option for the poor" }, "uid": "ipbkohfove4n" }, { "id": "l10-def-prosperity-gospel", "shape": "definition", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "debates" ], "term": { "modality": "text", "value": "Prosperity Gospel" }, "definition": { "modality": "text", "value": "A teaching, prominent in some Pentecostal contexts, that faith yields material wealth and physical health; 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The background features a warm, starry sky and a simple stable illustration, layered with torn paper textures. Central focus on a hand-lettered title 'Born in Bethlehem', surrounded by illustrations of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in a manger. Small, neatly handwritten labels point to elements like the star, shepherds, and animals, with doodles of angels and gifts. Warm earth tones and soft pastels create a cohesive, inviting feel.", "imageSearchTerm": "christianity scrapbook poster", "url": "https://cdn.recurxive.com/packs/christianity/generated/scrapbook-1.webp", "credit": "AI-generated (gpt-image-1)" }, "uid": "11p6mdp1rf12in" }, { "id": "scrapbook-christianity-2", "shape": "fact", "factVariant": "scrapbook", "title": "The Twelve Disciples", "body": "An overview of Jesus's twelve closest followers.", "tags": [ "scrapbook", "overview" ], "illustration": { "kind": "scrapbook", "alt": "An overview of Jesus's twelve closest followers.", "imagePrompt": "A classical painting depicting Jesus gathered together with his twelve apostles around a table.", "imageSearchTerm": "Twelve Apostles painting", "depictable": true }, "uid": "cyg0vegdzkae" }, { "id": "q-chr-councils-count", "shape": "numeric", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Number of Ecumenical Councils shown in the diagram" }, "value": 7, "unit": "councils", "tags": [ "councils" ], "tolerance": 0, "uid": "1xy2hm7iu6eun" }, { "id": "q-chr-first-nicaea-year", "shape": "numeric", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Year of the First Council of Nicaea" }, "value": 325, "unit": "year", "tags": [ "councils" ], "tolerance": 0, "uid": "10p8azp1om72uz" }, { "id": "q-chr-nicaea-ii-year", "shape": "numeric", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Year of Nicaea II, the last of the seven councils" }, "value": 787, "unit": "year", "tags": [ "councils" ], "tolerance": 0, "uid": "17pvuyrc9xcc" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l1p2-hebrew-bible-foundation", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "tanak", "hebrew-bible", "judaism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The word TaNaK is an acronym for the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible. Which three?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Torah (Law), Talmud (Teaching), Mishnah (Oral Law)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), Gemara (Commentary)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), Ketuvim (Writings)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Torah (Law), Mishnah (Oral Law), Midrash (Commentary)" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "TaNaK is formed from the first letters of its three divisions: Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). The Talmud, Mishnah, and Midrash are later rabbinic works, not part of the Hebrew Bible itself.", "uid": "1b89tlk147brrm" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l2p3-crucifixion-resurrection", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crucifixion", "sanhedrin", "pontius-pilate" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "After the Sanhedrin found Jesus guilty of blasphemy, why was the case handed to the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Under Roman occupation only Rome held authority to carry out capital punishment", "short": "Only Rome could order executions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pilate had summoned Jesus to answer for disrupting the Temple markets", "short": "Pilate summoned him over markets" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Sanhedrin had acquitted Jesus, so the priests appealed to Rome for a harsher verdict", "short": "It acquitted so priests appealed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman law required every blasphemy charge to be judged personally by the emperor's prefect", "short": "Rome judged all blasphemy charges" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Under Roman occupation the Sanhedrin could try Jesus for blasphemy but could not execute anyone; only Rome held capital authority. So the case went to Pilate, who sentenced him to crucifixion, a death Rome reserved for traitors and slaves.", "uid": "167ly25bsp3p" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l3p1-pentecost-pentarchy", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecost", "jewish-festivals" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Before it became the day the Church was born, what was Pentecost in the Jewish calendar?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A festival of atonement marked by fasting and repentance", "short": "A day of fasting and atonement" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A new-year festival marking the start of the religious calendar", "short": "A festival for the new year" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The feast commemorating the Exodus from Egypt", "short": "A feast recalling the Exodus from Egypt" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A harvest festival held fifty days after Passover", "short": "A harvest feast after Passover" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Pentecost was a Jewish harvest festival held fifty days after Passover, drawing devout Jews from across the empire to Jerusalem — the crowd Peter addressed. Passover itself, not Pentecost, commemorated the Exodus.", "uid": "1mysorl1uasbuh" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l3p3-persecution-canon", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "martyrdom", "nero", "persecution" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Tradition holds that Peter and Paul were martyred by different methods in Nero's Rome. Which pairing is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter was stoned by a mob; Paul was thrown to the beasts in the arena", "short": "Peter stoned; Paul thrown to beasts" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter was crucified (upside down, at his own request); Paul was beheaded as a Roman citizen", "short": "Peter crucified upside down; Paul beheaded" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Both were crucified side by side on the Vatican hill", "short": "Both crucified on the Vatican hill" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter was beheaded as a Roman citizen; Paul was crucified upside down", "short": "Peter beheaded; Paul crucified upside down" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Tradition says Peter, not a Roman citizen, was crucified — inverted at his own request — while Paul, holding Roman citizenship, was beheaded, the death Rome granted citizens instead of crucifixion.", "uid": "1d7oeccom2c4k" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l4p2-seven-councils", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "chalcedon", "councils", "oriental-orthodox" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Chalcedon (451) defined that Christ has two natures, divine and human, in one Person. Which family of churches rejected this formula and remains separate over it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Roman Catholic Church and its Latin rite", "short": "The Roman Catholic Latin rite" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Nestorian Church of the East (Assyrian, Persian)", "short": "The Nestorian Church of the East" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Oriental Orthodox churches (Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian)", "short": "The Oriental Orthodox churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Eastern Orthodox churches (Greek, Russian, Serbian)", "short": "The Eastern Orthodox churches" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Most of global Christianity accepts Chalcedon, but the Oriental Orthodox churches — Coptic, Ethiopian, and Armenian — held the Monophysite view and never accepted the two-natures formula, remaining separate over it ever since.", "uid": "1qgpw1z7sq63v" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l4p3-augustine-desert", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "augustine", "pelagius", "grace" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine's doctrine of grace was hammered out against the British monk Pelagius. What did Pelagius teach?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Salvation comes through ascetic withdrawal into the desert, not through grace", "short": "Salvation via desert asceticism, not grace" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only a predestined elect can be saved, regardless of their efforts", "short": "Only a predestined elect are saved" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Humans retain the natural capacity to choose good and contribute to their own salvation", "short": "Humans can choose good, aid own salvation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Adam's sin so corrupted humanity that no one can will anything good", "short": "Sin left humanity unable to will good" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Pelagius held that human nature is not fatally corrupted, so people can choose good and help earn salvation. Augustine countered that Original Sin makes salvation wholly God's gift; the church settled the dispute against Pelagius.", "uid": "1vdeyfxuw6rel" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l5p1-papacy-schism", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "investiture", "concordat-of-worms", "papacy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did the Investiture Controversy between pope and emperor formally end?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Concordat of Worms (1122), which split the power to appoint bishops between pope and emperor", "short": "Concordat of Worms 1122" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The coronation of Charlemagne in 800, which subordinated kings to the papacy", "short": "Charlemagne crowned in 800" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Great Schism of 1054, which excommunicated the emperor from the church", "short": "The Great Schism of 1054" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Henry IV's penance at Canossa, which permanently ceded all appointments to the pope", "short": "Henry IV's penance at Canossa" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "After decades of conflict the Concordat of Worms (1122) compromised: the emperor granted bishops their lands while the church invested their spiritual office. Henry IV's earlier penance at Canossa was only a temporary truce, not the end.", "uid": "zbypli1rtspa" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l5p2-scholastics-friars", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "aquinas", "scholasticism", "faith-and-reason" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What was the central claim of Thomas Aquinas's synthesis in the Summa Theologica?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Scripture alone, apart from reason or tradition, yields all theological truth", "short": "Scripture alone yields all truth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Faith and reason are complementary — revealed truths surpass reason but never contradict it", "short": "Faith and reason complement each other" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Human reason is too corrupted by sin to grasp any moral truth", "short": "Sin leaves reason unable to grasp truth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Reason must be rejected wherever it conflicts with revealed faith", "short": "Reason must yield to revealed faith" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Aquinas held that faith and reason work together: natural law is knowable by reason alone, while revealed truths like the Trinity go beyond reason yet never contradict it. This synthesis shaped Catholic theology for centuries.", "uid": "pwtci1vhohn5" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l6p1-luther", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "reformation", "luther", "solas" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Sola Gratia, the third of Luther's three solas, teaches that ___." }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Scripture alone is the supreme authority for doctrine", "short": "Scripture alone is authoritative" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "the church alone may rightly interpret the Bible", "short": "only the church may interpret" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "God's grace is the sole cause of salvation", "short": "God's grace alone saves" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "salvation is received through faith alone", "short": "faith alone receives salvation" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Sola Gratia ('grace alone') insists God's grace is the only cause of salvation. It completes the trio alongside Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) and Sola Fide (faith alone) that defined Protestant doctrine.", "uid": "16hl01td47twl" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l6p2-reformed-radical", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "calvinism", "knox", "reformed-tradition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which reformer carried Calvin's theology to Scotland, where it took root as Presbyterianism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "John Knox" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Felix Manz" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Menno Simons" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ulrich Zwingli" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "John Knox brought Calvinism to Scotland, where it became Presbyterianism. Calvin's Reformed theology proved highly portable — spreading also to the Dutch Reformed, French Huguenots, and English Puritans.", "uid": "rzilyh9u5n5p" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l7p1-mission-empire", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "colonialism", "tordesillas", "missions" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What did the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas do?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Divided the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal", "short": "Split new lands: Spain and Portugal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Banned European missionaries from the Americas", "short": "Banned missionaries from the Americas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Split newly claimed lands between Catholic and Protestant powers", "short": "Split new lands: Catholic vs Protestant" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Freed indigenous Americans from all forced labor", "short": "Freed natives from all forced labor" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas carved up the non-Christian world between the two Iberian crowns, Spain and Portugal. Catholic missions then followed the conquest — 'the church followed the sword.'", "uid": "lnexn059gl5w" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l7p3-azusa-pentecostalism", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecostalism", "azusa-street", "seymour" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who led the 1906 Azusa Street revival that launched modern Pentecostalism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Charles Parham" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Charles Finney" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Dwight L. Moody" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William J. Seymour", "short": "William J. Seymour (1870-1922)" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "William J. Seymour, an African American preacher and son of former slaves who had studied under Charles Parham, led the interracial Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles — a startling sight amid the legal segregation of 1906.", "uid": "1ixegknmug61j" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l8p2-sin-grace-salvation", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "original-sin", "augustine", "theology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which theologian gave Western Christianity its dominant account of Original Sin — that Adam's disobedience corrupted all human nature?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Martin Luther" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine of Hippo", "short": "Augustine of Hippo (354-430)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Calvin" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE), drawing on Genesis 3, taught that Adam and Eve's disobedience left all humanity in a corrupted state of Original Sin. The later Catholic and Protestant debate largely works within his framework.", "uid": "1u8lz5ky6ywn" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l8p3-sacraments", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sacraments", "protestant", "ordinances" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Why do most Protestant churches recognize only two sacraments, Baptism and Communion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The other five require an ordained priesthood that Protestants abolished", "short": "The other five need an ordained priest" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only those two are mentioned anywhere in the New Testament", "short": "Only those two appear in the New Testament" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Only those two were explicitly commanded by Christ with a physical element attached", "short": "Only those two Christ explicitly commanded" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The other five were invented by the medieval papacy", "short": "The other five: medieval papal inventions" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Protestants keep Baptism and Communion because Christ explicitly commanded both with a physical sign (water; bread and wine). Many even prefer 'ordinances' — symbolic acts of obedience rather than channels of grace, unlike the Catholic and Orthodox seven.", "uid": "1bf6t011ov14z1" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l9p1-catholic-orthodox", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "orthodoxy", "authority" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Within Eastern Orthodoxy, what kind of authority does the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople hold?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Supreme universal jurisdiction over all Orthodox churches, like the Catholic Pope", "short": "Supreme rule just like the Pope" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The power to define doctrine infallibly for all Orthodox believers", "short": "Infallible doctrinal authority" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Direct governance of every autocephalous church from Constantinople", "short": "Direct rule from Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "An honorary primacy as 'first among equals,' with no binding jurisdiction over other churches", "short": "Honorary primacy among equals" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Orthodox churches are autocephalous — self-governing under their own patriarchs. The Ecumenical Patriarch is honored as 'first among equals' but, unlike the Catholic Pope, holds no binding jurisdiction over the others.", "uid": "1ckckv61ba51dm" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l10p1-global-south", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "global-south", "demographics" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Global South's share of the world's Christians (about 69% in 2025) is projected to keep rising. What share is it expected to reach by 2050?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "92%" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "73%" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "85%" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "78%" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "In 1900 about 95% of Christians were Western; by 2025 roughly 69% live in the Global South (Africa, Latin America, Asia), a share the guide notes is projected to reach about 78% by 2050 — a near-total reversal.", "uid": "1tvh2shz9goh9" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l10p2-ecumenism-fragmentation", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "ecumenism", "wcc" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The World Council of Churches unites most major Protestant and Orthodox bodies. Which major church is notably NOT a member?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Eastern Orthodox Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Roman Catholic Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Lutheran churches", "short": "The Lutheran denominations" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Anglican Communion", "short": "The Anglican Communion worldwide" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Founded in 1948 in Amsterdam, the WCC gathers most Protestant and Orthodox churches. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member, though it has pursued significant ecumenical dialogue since Vatican II.", "uid": "sk4vg11h4586n" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l11p1-whos-who", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "key-figures", "evangelicalism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which 20th-century figure preached in person to an estimated 215 million people and came to define American evangelicalism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Billy Graham" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William Carey" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William Wilberforce" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Charles Spurgeon" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Billy Graham's mass crusades reached an estimated 215 million people in person, shaping 20th-century American evangelicalism. Spurgeon (19th c.), Carey, and Wilberforce were earlier Protestant figures.", "uid": "zz5bvqr1dsr6" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l11p2-who-is-it", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "key-figures", "paul" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In the 'Who Is It?' gallery, which figure argued that Gentiles need not first become Jews — the move that made Christianity a universal religion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Paul, the former Pharisee transformed on the road to Damascus, insisted Gentiles could join without adopting Jewish law — turning a Jewish sect into a universal faith. He wrote roughly half the New Testament.", "uid": "1gg9mcer8cv18" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l12p1-holy-sites", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "holy-sites", "jerusalem" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands today on the site of which holy place?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus", "short": "Bethlehem where Jesus was born" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Golgotha (Calvary), the hill of the crucifixion", "short": "Golgotha the hill of crucifixion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Jordan River, the site of Jesus' baptism", "short": "Jordan where Jesus was baptized" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nazareth, where Jesus grew up", "short": "Nazareth where Jesus was raised" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Golgotha (Calvary), the 'place of the skull' just outside Jerusalem's walls, is where Jesus was crucified; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built over the site. Bethlehem's church is the Church of the Nativity.", "uid": "z1llxji59gz9" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l12p2-where-is-it", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "key-places", "councils" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which town — modern İznik, Turkey — hosted the first ecumenical council in 325 and gave its name to Christianity's foundational creed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Chalcedon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Nicaea (modern İznik) hosted the first (325) and seventh ecumenical councils; the Nicene Creed takes its name from it. Chalcedon and Constantinople also hosted councils, and Antioch was an early mission hub.", "uid": "piot0778lcjf" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l13p1-reading-the-bible", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "hermeneutics", "bible", "interpretation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Of the four broad approaches to biblical interpretation, which was the dominant method in the patristic and medieval church?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Historical-critical", "short": "Historical-critical reading" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Infallible", "short": "Reading it as fully infallible" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Allegorical/typological", "short": "Allegorical or typological" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Literal/inerrant", "short": "Literal and inerrant reading" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The allegorical/typological method — reading Old Testament events as foreshadowing New Testament realities — dominated patristic and medieval interpretation. The historical-critical approach, using history and archaeology, is a modern development.", "uid": "um7ykug64rws" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l13p2-what-is-it", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "aquinas", "summa", "philosophy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica is famous for its \"Five Ways.\" What do the Five Ways set out to prove?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The errors of the Arian heresy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The existence of God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That Scripture is without error" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The doctrine of the Trinity" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Summa Theologica, an unfinished 13th-century masterwork, harmonizes Christian doctrine with Aristotle; its \"Five Ways\" offer five distinct arguments for the existence of God.", "uid": "k7tvpc9181ge" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l13p3-numbers", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sacraments", "numbers", "denominations" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Catholic and Orthodox churches recognize seven sacraments. How many do most Protestant churches recognize?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Three" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Two" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Seven" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "While Catholic and Orthodox churches count seven sacraments, most Protestants recognize only two — a difference that reflects their focus on rites explicitly instituted by Christ.", "uid": "16k35ze9fu87y" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-lc-people", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "ignatius", "jesuits", "counter-reformation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which religious order — the spearhead of the Catholic Counter-Reformation — did Ignatius of Loyola found?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Franciscans" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Augustinians" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Dominicans" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Ignatius of Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned reformer, wrote the Spiritual Exercises and founded the Society of Jesus — the Jesuits — a disciplined, education-focused order that led the Counter-Reformation.", "uid": "1v4jd3r1ijmchh" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-lc-places", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "antioch", "early-church", "places" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "According to the Book of Acts, in which city were the followers of Jesus first called \"Christians\"?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Antioch, in what is now southern Turkey, was a major hub for the early mission to non-Jews. Acts records that it was there that Jesus's followers were first called \"Christians.\"", "uid": "1cv883716fb60r" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-lc-things", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "augustine", "city-of-god", "texts" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine wrote The City of God in response to which event?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Visigoths' sack of Rome in 410" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The fall of Constantinople in 1453" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan in 313" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Great Fire of Rome in 64" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "After the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410, Augustine wrote The City of God, contrasting a transient earthly city with an eternal heavenly city and defending Christianity against the charge that it had weakened the empire.", "uid": "i71p671aqhikt" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-lc-events", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecost", "early-church", "events" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At Pentecost — the Birth of the Church — roughly how many people were baptized after Peter's sermon?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "About 5,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 500" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 120" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 3,000" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Acts describes a dramatic outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; after Peter's sermon around 30–33 CE, roughly 3,000 people were baptized — traditionally the church's founding moment.", "uid": "e7w2fp1e458q3" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l14p2-right-or-wrong", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "councils", "heresy", "theology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Ephesus (431) upheld Mary as Theotokos, the 'God-bearer.' Which heresy was it rejecting in doing so?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Nestorianism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Arianism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Modalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Monophysitism" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The guide pairs each heresy with the council that answered it: Ephesus rejected Nestorianism — which split Christ into two persons — and affirmed Mary as Theotokos, since the one Person she bore is both God and man.", "uid": "10g2wwra7zoet" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l14p3-sequence", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "imperial", "councils", "rome" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Christianity's rise from persecuted sect to imperial faith, which step made Nicene Christianity the Roman Empire's official state religion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan (313)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Constantinople (381)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Theodosius's decree (380)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea (325)" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan (313) only granted toleration and Nicaea (325) settled doctrine; it was Emperor Theodosius who, in 380, made Nicene Christianity the empire's official religion — under three centuries after the persecutions.", "uid": "3533uyz8tr2y" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l14p4-council-dates", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "councils", "numbers" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Of the seven ecumenical councils, which met last — in 787, to settle the dispute over icons?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Third Council of Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Second Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Chalcedon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The councils run from Nicaea I (325) to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, the seventh and last, which ended the iconoclast controversy by affirming the veneration of icons.", "uid": "1kh744z2tdd8d" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l14p5-lightning", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "judea", "origins" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Jewish group of Jesus's era were ascetic desert communalists, traditionally credited with producing the Dead Sea Scrolls?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Sadducees" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Zealots" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Pharisees" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Essenes" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Essenes withdrew into ascetic desert communities and are the group most scholars credit with the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Pharisees (Torah and oral tradition), Sadducees (Temple aristocrats), and Zealots (anti-Roman revolutionaries) were the other major groups.", "uid": "7jdss0qbuuuw" }, { "id": "mcq-rw-l14p6-term-drill", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentarchy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In early Christianity, the term 'Pentarchy' refers to what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The five great patriarchal centers of the Church", "short": "The five patriarchal centers" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The five solas of the Reformation", "short": "The five Reformation solas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The first five ecumenical councils", "short": "The first five councils" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The five books of Moses" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Pentarchy names the five patriarchal sees of the early Church — Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople. Don't confuse it with the Pentateuch (five books of Moses) or the Reformation's five solas.", "uid": "1ocsjkmy3zkta" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l1-def-messiah", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "judea" ], "template": "___ — A divinely anointed leader expected to deliver Israel; a hope shared across the rival Jewish groups", "answer": "Messiah", "distractors": [ "Covenant", "Filioque", "The Beatitudes" ], "derivedFrom": "l1-def-messiah", "explanation": "Compare: Covenant — A binding relationship God enters into with his people; the central thread linking the Hebrew Bible to Christian interpretation.", "uid": "freoh2le8i22" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l1-def-pax-romana", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "rome" ], "template": "___ — The \"Roman Peace\" — a long span of relative stability across the Mediterranean that eased travel and communication", "answer": "Pax Romana", "distractors": [ "Pentecostalism", "Ecumenism", "The \"nones\"" ], "derivedFrom": "l1-def-pax-romana", "explanation": "Compare: Pentecostalism — A renewal movement born at Azusa Street (1906) emphasizing baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, divine healing, and direct spiritual experience.", "uid": "1jp11ska7auik" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l1-def-tanak", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "hebrew-bible" ], "template": "___ — The Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament", "answer": "TaNaK", "distractors": [ "Covenant", "Indulgence", "The Kingdom of God" ], "derivedFrom": "l1-def-tanak", "explanation": "Compare: Covenant — A binding relationship God enters into with his people; the central thread linking the Hebrew Bible to Christian interpretation. Indulgence — A church certificate claiming to remit time owed in purgatory; their sale was the abuse that triggered Luther's protest.", "uid": "k76dld16logc1" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l1-def-covenant", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "hebrew-bible" ], "template": "___ — A binding relationship God enters into with his people; the central thread linking the Hebrew Bible to Christian interpretation", "answer": "Covenant", "distractors": [ "TaNaK", "The Incarnation", "Original Sin" ], "derivedFrom": "l1-def-covenant", "explanation": "Compare: TaNaK — The Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. The Incarnation — The belief that God took on human flesh in Jesus, who is fully God and fully human — two natures in one person.", "uid": "1kl2l8u1qcmk0k" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l2-def-john-baptist", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "jesus" ], "template": "___ — An apocalyptic preacher who baptized Jesus in the Jordan and called Israel to repentance ahead of the coming Kingdom", "answer": "John the Baptist", "distractors": [ "Peter", "Mary Magdalene", "Judas Iscariot" ], "derivedFrom": "l2-def-john-baptist", "uid": "1w3lx7ovo513w" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l2-def-kingdom-of-god", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "jesus" ], "template": "___ — The new social and spiritual reality Jesus proclaimed as breaking into the world — the central theme of his preaching", "answer": "The Kingdom of God", "distractors": [ "John the Baptist", "Liberation Theology", "Millennialism" ], "derivedFrom": "l2-def-kingdom-of-god", "explanation": "Compare: John the Baptist — An apocalyptic preacher who baptized Jesus in the Jordan and called Israel to repentance ahead of the coming Kingdom.", "uid": "moz4of1evu5op" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l2-def-beatitudes", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "teachings" ], "template": "___ — A set of blessings opening the Sermon on the Mount that invert social hierarchy — blessing the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, and the peacemakers", "answer": "The Beatitudes", "distractors": [ "The Great Commission", "Kenosis", "Counter-Reformation" ], "derivedFrom": "l2-def-beatitudes", "explanation": "Compare: The Global South — Africa, Latin America, and Asia — now home to the majority of the world's Christians, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity. Kenosis — From Philippians 2: Christ \"emptied himself\" of divine prerogative in the Incarnation, taking the form of a servant.", "uid": "1hrllqx1xcynyt" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l2-def-golgotha", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "passion" ], "template": "___ — \"The place of the skull\" — the site outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; also called Calvary", "answer": "Golgotha", "distractors": [ "Bethlehem", "Nazareth", "Antioch" ], "derivedFrom": "l2-def-golgotha", "explanation": "Compare: Bethlehem — A town in the West Bank, just south of Jerusalem. Antioch — An ancient city in what is now southern Turkey.", "uid": "5u45gjvuxa2v" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l3-def-pentecost", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentecost" ], "template": "___ — The Jewish feast, fifty days after Passover, when the disciples reported the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; traditionally the birth of the Church", "answer": "Pentecost", "distractors": [ "Messiah", "Redemption", "Trinity" ], "derivedFrom": "l3-def-pentecost", "explanation": "Compare: Messiah — A divinely anointed leader expected to deliver Israel; a hope shared across the rival Jewish groups. Redemption — Christ's atoning work on the cross — \"buying back\" humanity from bondage to sin and death. Salvation applies it to the individual.", "uid": "1q9ker2cwf66i" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l3-def-pentarchy", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentarchy" ], "template": "___ — The five patriarchal centers of early Christianity: Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople", "answer": "Pentarchy", "distractors": [ "Apostolic Succession", "Biblical Canon", "Original Sin" ], "derivedFrom": "l3-def-pentarchy", "explanation": "Compare: Predestination — Calvin's teaching that God eternally elects some to salvation and passes over others, entirely by divine choice and not by foreseen merit.", "uid": "qhqvncrg7mda" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l3-def-justification", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "paul" ], "template": "___ — Paul's teaching that people are made right with God by grace through faith, not by earning it: \"By grace you have been saved through faith.\"", "answer": "Justification by faith", "distractors": [ "The Body of Christ", "Kenosis", "Cenobitic monasticism" ], "derivedFrom": "l3-def-justification", "explanation": "Compare: The Body of Christ — Paul's image of the church as a single living organism whose members have diverse but interdependent roles. Kenosis — From Philippians 2: Christ \"emptied himself\" of divine prerogative in the Incarnation, taking the form of a servant.", "uid": "1mvuwrb1j1f0w3" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l3-def-body-of-christ", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "paul" ], "template": "___ — Paul's image of the church as a single living organism whose members have diverse but interdependent roles", "answer": "The Body of Christ", "distractors": [ "Kenosis", "Justification by faith", "Trinity" ], "derivedFrom": "l3-def-body-of-christ", "explanation": "Compare: Kenosis — From Philippians 2: Christ \"emptied himself\" of divine prerogative in the Incarnation, taking the form of a servant.", "uid": "19xhir6uw9tfm" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l3-def-kenosis", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "paul" ], "template": "___ — From Philippians 2: Christ \"emptied himself\" of divine prerogative in the Incarnation, taking the form of a servant", "answer": "Kenosis", "distractors": [ "The Body of Christ", "Justification by faith", "Papal Primacy" ], "derivedFrom": "l3-def-kenosis", "explanation": "Compare: The Body of Christ — Paul's image of the church as a single living organism whose members have diverse but interdependent roles.", "uid": "r8fpq99ucfux" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l4-def-edict-of-milan", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "constantine" ], "template": "___ — The 313 CE proclamation by Constantine and Licinius granting religious toleration to Christians throughout the Roman Empire", "answer": "Edict of Milan", "distractors": [ "Modalism", "TaNaK", "Arianism" ], "derivedFrom": "l4-def-edict-of-milan", "explanation": "Compare: Modalism — The error that the one God merely appears in three successive modes or masks, rather than existing as three distinct persons. TaNaK — The Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament.", "uid": "h4uo85g4guvj" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l4-def-homoousios", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "nicaea", "trinity" ], "template": "___ — Greek for \"of the same substance\" — the Nicene term declaring the Son to be the same substance as the Father, against Arius", "answer": "Homoousios", "distractors": [ "Tritheism", "Trinity", "Modalism" ], "derivedFrom": "l4-def-homoousios", "explanation": "Compare: Tritheism — The error of treating Father, Son, and Spirit as three separate gods — rejected by Trinitarian orthodoxy. Trinity — The doctrine that the one God exists as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.", "uid": "1qgdmdj1vydk6h" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l4-def-theotokos", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "ecumenical" ], "template": "___ — Greek for \"God-bearer\" — the title for Mary affirmed at Ephesus (431), asserting that the one she bore was truly God", "answer": "Theotokos", "distractors": [ "Glossolalia", "Indulgence", "Theosis" ], "derivedFrom": "l4-def-theotokos", "explanation": "Compare: Glossolalia — \"Speaking in tongues\" — utterance of unintelligible or unknown speech understood as a gift of the Holy Spirit; the signature practice of Pentecostalism.", "uid": "j7k2zjmuzb7l" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l4-def-original-sin", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "augustine", "theology" ], "template": "___ — Augustine's doctrine that Adam's sin corrupted all human nature, passing guilt and a bent toward sin to every human being", "answer": "Original Sin", "distractors": [ "Predestination", "Total depravity", "Eschatology" ], "derivedFrom": "l4-def-original-sin", "explanation": "Compare: Predestination — Calvin's teaching that God eternally elects some to salvation and passes over others, entirely by divine choice and not by foreseen merit. Total depravity — The Calvinist view that human nature is wholly corrupted by sin, with no natural inclination toward God.", "uid": "1dsalyq105qppg" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l4-def-cenobitic", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "monasticism" ], "template": "___ — Monastic life lived in community under a shared rule, as opposed to the solitary (eremitic) life of a hermit", "answer": "Cenobitic monasticism", "distractors": [ "Justification by faith", "Ex cathedra infallibility", "Eschatology" ], "derivedFrom": "l4-def-cenobitic", "explanation": "Compare: Justification by faith — Paul's teaching that people are made right with God by grace through faith, not by earning it: \"By grace you have been saved through faith.\".", "uid": "sha1kbxnfxnx" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l5-def-papacy", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "papacy" ], "template": "___ — The office and authority of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, who claimed leadership over the Western church", "answer": "Papacy", "distractors": [ "Counter-Reformation", "Sacrament", "Pentecostalism" ], "derivedFrom": "l5-def-papacy", "explanation": "Compare: Counter-Reformation — The Roman Catholic Church's reforming and defensive response to the Protestant Reformation, driven chiefly by the Jesuits and the Council of Trent. Sacrament — A physical rite believed to convey spiritual grace, such as Baptism or the Eucharist.", "uid": "13lh76o1xd9bpg" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l5-def-investiture", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "papacy" ], "template": "___ — An 11th–12th century conflict over whether the Pope or secular rulers had the right to appoint bishops and other church officials", "answer": "Investiture Controversy", "distractors": [ "Papacy", "Justification by faith", "Ex cathedra infallibility" ], "derivedFrom": "l5-def-investiture", "explanation": "Compare: Papacy — The office and authority of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, who claimed leadership over the Western church. Justification by faith — Paul's teaching that people are made right with God by grace through faith, not by earning it: \"By grace you have been saved through faith.\".", "uid": "9zj0891hwj3vp" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l5-def-filioque", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "schism" ], "template": "___ — Latin for \"and from the Son\" — words the West added to the Nicene Creed about the Holy Spirit, which the East rejected as an unauthorized change", "answer": "Filioque", "distractors": [ "Papal Primacy", "Modalism", "Perichoresis" ], "derivedFrom": "l5-def-filioque", "explanation": "Compare: Papal Primacy — Rome's claim to supreme authority over the whole church; the East held instead to a collegial model of five equal patriarchs. Modalism — The error that the one God merely appears in three successive modes or masks, rather than existing as three distinct persons.", "uid": "113ccst1y8gu09" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l5-def-papal-primacy", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "schism" ], "template": "___ — Rome's claim to supreme authority over the whole church; the East held instead to a collegial model of five equal patriarchs", "answer": "Papal Primacy", "distractors": [ "Filioque", "Edict of Milan", "Sacrament" ], "derivedFrom": "l5-def-papal-primacy", "explanation": "Compare: Filioque — Latin for \"and from the Son\" — words the West added to the Nicene Creed about the Holy Spirit, which the East rejected as an unauthorized change.", "uid": "1arnu2a1hl6ze8" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l5-def-scholasticism", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "scholasticism" ], "template": "___ — The medieval method of using rigorous logic and Greek philosophy to systematize Christian theology, exemplified by Aquinas", "answer": "Scholasticism", "distractors": [ "Natural Law", "Pentecost", "Ecumenism" ], "derivedFrom": "l5-def-scholasticism", "explanation": "Compare: Natural Law — Aquinas's idea that a moral order is built into creation and accessible to human reason apart from revelation. Pentecost — The Jewish feast, fifty days after Passover, when the disciples reported the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; traditionally the birth of the Church.", "uid": "j3ho29xc8ybb" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l5-def-natural-law", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "scholasticism" ], "template": "___ — Aquinas's idea that a moral order is built into creation and accessible to human reason apart from revelation", "answer": "Natural Law", "distractors": [ "Scholasticism", "Divine Command Theory", "Modalism" ], "derivedFrom": "l5-def-natural-law", "explanation": "Compare: Scholasticism — The medieval method of using rigorous logic and Greek philosophy to systematize Christian theology, exemplified by Aquinas. Total depravity — The Calvinist view that human nature is wholly corrupted by sin, with no natural inclination toward God.", "uid": "79005h1nj5qop" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l6-def-indulgence", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "luther" ], "template": "___ — A church certificate claiming to remit time owed in purgatory; their sale was the abuse that triggered Luther's protest", "answer": "Indulgence", "distractors": [ "TaNaK", "Pentecost", "Counter-Reformation" ], "derivedFrom": "l6-def-indulgence", "explanation": "Compare: TaNaK — The Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. Pentecost — The Jewish feast, fifty days after Passover, when the disciples reported the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; traditionally the birth of the Church.", "uid": "magr3xa41kcj" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l6-def-sola-scriptura", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology", "luther" ], "template": "___ — \"Scripture alone\" — the Protestant principle that the Bible, not church tradition or the pope, is the supreme authority for doctrine", "answer": "Sola Scriptura", "distractors": [ "Eschatology", "Total depravity", "Parousia" ], "derivedFrom": "l6-def-sola-scriptura", "explanation": "Compare: Eschatology — The study of 'last things' — the end of history: Christ's return, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell. Total depravity — The Calvinist view that human nature is wholly corrupted by sin, with no natural inclination toward God.", "uid": "5pkaky1omydgu" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l6-def-sola-fide", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology", "luther" ], "template": "___ — \"Faith alone\" — the principle that salvation is received through faith, not earned through works or sacraments", "answer": "Sola Fide", "distractors": [ "Indulgence", "Eschatology", "Sacerdotalism" ], "derivedFrom": "l6-def-sola-fide", "explanation": "Compare: Indulgence — A church certificate claiming to remit time owed in purgatory; their sale was the abuse that triggered Luther's protest. Eschatology — The study of 'last things' — the end of history: Christ's return, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell.", "uid": "6d8phv1g8qi2h" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l6-def-predestination", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "reformed", "theology" ], "template": "___ — Calvin's teaching that God eternally elects some to salvation and passes over others, entirely by divine choice and not by foreseen merit", "answer": "Predestination", "distractors": [ "Parousia", "Original Sin", "Total depravity" ], "derivedFrom": "l6-def-predestination", "explanation": "Compare: Parousia — The Second Coming — Christ's return in glory to judge the living and the dead, affirmed by all Christian traditions. Original Sin — Augustine's doctrine that Adam's sin corrupted all human nature, passing guilt and a bent toward sin to every human being.", "uid": "1c0pgzubo5x0k" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l6-def-total-depravity", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "reformed", "theology" ], "template": "___ — The Calvinist view that human nature is wholly corrupted by sin, with no natural inclination toward God", "answer": "Total depravity", "distractors": [ "Original Sin", "Parousia", "Predestination" ], "derivedFrom": "l6-def-total-depravity", "explanation": "Compare: Original Sin — Augustine's doctrine that Adam's sin corrupted all human nature, passing guilt and a bent toward sin to every human being. Parousia — The Second Coming — Christ's return in glory to judge the living and the dead, affirmed by all Christian traditions.", "uid": "iv0jzc1sd9lcs" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l6-def-believers-baptism", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "anabaptists" ], "template": "___ — Baptism given only to those old enough to profess faith for themselves, rather than to infants — the Anabaptist hallmark", "answer": "Believer's baptism", "distractors": [ "Salvation", "Redemption", "Scholasticism" ], "derivedFrom": "l6-def-believers-baptism", "explanation": "Compare: Salvation — The restoration of a right relationship with God — the cure for sin, applied to the individual. Redemption — Christ's atoning work on the cross — \"buying back\" humanity from bondage to sin and death. Salvation applies it to the individual.", "uid": "vqfub0hibg1w" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l6-def-counter-reformation", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "counter-reformation" ], "template": "___ — The Roman Catholic Church's reforming and defensive response to the Protestant Reformation, driven chiefly by the Jesuits and the Council of Trent", "answer": "Counter-Reformation", "distractors": [ "The Kingdom of God", "Golgotha", "Papal Primacy" ], "derivedFrom": "l6-def-counter-reformation", "explanation": "Compare: The Kingdom of God — The new social and spiritual reality Jesus proclaimed as breaking into the world — the central theme of his preaching. Golgotha — \"The place of the skull\" — the site outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; also called Calvary.", "uid": "1mj18bcdrni1a" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l7-def-missionary", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "mission" ], "template": "___ — A person sent to spread a religious faith, typically in a new region or culture; central to Christianity's global expansion", "answer": "Missionary", "distractors": [ "Bishop", "Deacon", "Cardinal" ], "derivedFrom": "l7-def-missionary", "uid": "7sfwnt5lbhrj" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l7-def-sublimis-deus", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "mission" ], "template": "___ — Pope Paul III's 1537 papal bull affirming the rational nature and human dignity of indigenous Americans and condemning their enslavement", "answer": "Sublimis Deus", "distractors": [ "Missionary", "Speaking in tongues — the hallmark of Pentecostal experience", "Requerimiento" ], "derivedFrom": "l7-def-sublimis-deus", "explanation": "Compare: Missionary — A person sent to spread a religious faith, typically in a new region or culture; central to Christianity's global expansion. Speaking in tongues — the hallmark of Pentecostal experience — Glossolalia.", "uid": "183b6b1hr2t0x" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l7-def-glossolalia", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentecostalism" ], "template": "___ — \"Speaking in tongues\" — utterance of unintelligible or unknown speech understood as a gift of the Holy Spirit; the signature practice of Pentecostalism", "answer": "Glossolalia", "distractors": [ "The Beatitudes", "Scholasticism" ], "derivedFrom": "l7-def-glossolalia", "explanation": "Compare: The Beatitudes — A set of blessings opening the Sermon on the Mount that invert social hierarchy — blessing the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, and the peacemakers.", "uid": "psz6s31e48jbr" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l7-def-pentecostalism", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentecostalism" ], "template": "___ — A renewal movement born at Azusa Street (1906) emphasizing baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, divine healing, and direct spiritual experience", "answer": "Pentecostalism", "distractors": [ "Glossolalia", "Tritheism", "Indulgence" ], "derivedFrom": "l7-def-pentecostalism", "explanation": "Compare: Glossolalia — \"Speaking in tongues\" — utterance of unintelligible or unknown speech understood as a gift of the Holy Spirit; the signature practice of Pentecostalism. Tritheism — The error of treating Father, Son, and Spirit as three separate gods — rejected by Trinitarian orthodoxy.", "uid": "er968g1atxvmm" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-trinity", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "trinity" ], "template": "___ — The doctrine that the one God exists as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit", "answer": "Trinity", "distractors": [ "Homoousios", "Modalism", "Tritheism" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-trinity", "explanation": "Compare: Homoousios — Greek for \"of the same substance\" — the Nicene term declaring the Son to be the same substance as the Father, against Arius. Modalism — The error that the one God merely appears in three successive modes or masks, rather than existing as three distinct persons.", "uid": "1j8rcpcu9or06" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-tritheism", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "trinity" ], "template": "___ — The error of treating Father, Son, and Spirit as three separate gods — rejected by Trinitarian orthodoxy", "answer": "Tritheism", "distractors": [ "Trinity", "Modalism", "Homoousios" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-tritheism", "explanation": "Compare: Trinity — The doctrine that the one God exists as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Modalism — The error that the one God merely appears in three successive modes or masks, rather than existing as three distinct persons.", "uid": "1o9uv9i1c4xtfg" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-modalism", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "trinity" ], "template": "___ — The error that the one God merely appears in three successive modes or masks, rather than existing as three distinct persons", "answer": "Modalism", "distractors": [ "Tritheism", "Trinity", "Homoousios" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-modalism", "explanation": "Compare: Tritheism — The error of treating Father, Son, and Spirit as three separate gods — rejected by Trinitarian orthodoxy. Trinity — The doctrine that the one God exists as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.", "uid": "1b9g8q21aohs0a" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-incarnation", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "incarnation" ], "template": "___ — The belief that God took on human flesh in Jesus, who is fully God and fully human — two natures in one person", "answer": "The Incarnation", "distractors": [ "Hypostatic Union", "Trinity", "Theophany" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-incarnation", "explanation": "Compare: The Global South — Africa, Latin America, and Asia — now home to the majority of the world's Christians, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity. Trinity — The doctrine that the one God exists as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.", "uid": "1iyitz7dqwco9" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-salvation", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sin" ], "template": "___ — The restoration of a right relationship with God — the cure for sin, applied to the individual", "answer": "Salvation", "distractors": [ "Redemption", "Pentarchy", "Covenant" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-salvation", "explanation": "Compare: Redemption — Christ's atoning work on the cross — \"buying back\" humanity from bondage to sin and death. Salvation applies it to the individual. Pentarchy — The five patriarchal centers of early Christianity: Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople.", "uid": "1fbqzk0k0tvve" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-redemption", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sin" ], "template": "___ — Christ's atoning work on the cross — \"buying back\" humanity from bondage to sin and death. Salvation applies it to the individual", "answer": "Redemption", "distractors": [ "John the Baptist", "Atonement" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-redemption", "explanation": "Compare: John the Baptist — An apocalyptic preacher who baptized Jesus in the Jordan and called Israel to repentance ahead of the coming Kingdom.", "uid": "n6r2cb1564tm1" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-sacrament", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sacraments" ], "template": "___ — A physical rite believed to convey spiritual grace, such as Baptism or the Eucharist", "answer": "Sacrament", "distractors": [ "Theosis", "Ecumenism" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-sacrament", "explanation": "Compare: Theosis — \"Deification\" — the Orthodox vision of salvation as actual participation in the divine nature, not merely the forgiveness of sins. Ecumenism — The movement seeking greater cooperation and eventual unity among Christianity's divided churches and denominations.", "uid": "7m9mp21nni7kc" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l8-def-eucharist", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sacraments" ], "template": "___ — The sacrament of bread and wine recalling Christ's Last Supper; also called Communion, the Lord's Supper, or the Mass", "answer": "Eucharist", "distractors": [ "Messiah", "Papal Primacy" ], "derivedFrom": "l8-def-eucharist", "explanation": "Compare: Messiah — A divinely anointed leader expected to deliver Israel; a hope shared across the rival Jewish groups. Papal Primacy — Rome's claim to supreme authority over the whole church; the East held instead to a collegial model of five equal patriarchs.", "uid": "1vq86pz1vooicb" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l9-def-ex-cathedra", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "catholic" ], "template": "___ — The Catholic teaching that the Pope's formal doctrinal pronouncements, made \"from the chair\" of Peter, are preserved from error", "answer": "Ex cathedra infallibility", "distractors": [ "Justification by faith", "Cenobitic monasticism", "Liberation Theology" ], "derivedFrom": "l9-def-ex-cathedra", "explanation": "Compare: Justification by faith — Paul's teaching that people are made right with God by grace through faith, not by earning it: \"By grace you have been saved through faith.\".", "uid": "101hl34jfq9qk" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l9-def-sacred-tradition", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "catholic" ], "template": "___ — The body of teaching handed down from the apostles alongside Scripture; Catholics and Orthodox treat it as a source of doctrine, not Scripture alone", "answer": "Sacred Tradition", "distractors": [ "Ex cathedra infallibility", "Filioque", "John the Baptist" ], "derivedFrom": "l9-def-sacred-tradition", "explanation": "Compare: Ex cathedra infallibility — The Catholic teaching that the Pope's formal doctrinal pronouncements, made \"from the chair\" of Peter, are preserved from error.", "uid": "k5c3r512hvyil" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l9-def-autocephalous", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "orthodox" ], "template": "___ — Literally \"self-headed\"; an Orthodox national church that governs itself under its own patriarch rather than a central authority", "answer": "Autocephalous", "distractors": [ "Theosis", "Apostolic Succession", "Natural Law" ], "derivedFrom": "l9-def-autocephalous", "explanation": "Compare: Theosis — \"Deification\" — the Orthodox vision of salvation as actual participation in the divine nature, not merely the forgiveness of sins.", "uid": "cgga721kb9mw8" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l9-def-theosis", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "orthodox" ], "template": "___ — \"Deification\" — the Orthodox vision of salvation as actual participation in the divine nature, not merely the forgiveness of sins", "answer": "Theosis", "distractors": [ "Autocephalous", "Original Sin", "Hesychasm" ], "derivedFrom": "l9-def-theosis", "explanation": "Compare: Autocephalous — Literally \"self-headed\"; an Orthodox national church that governs itself under its own patriarch rather than a central authority. Original Sin — Augustine's doctrine that Adam's sin corrupted all human nature, passing guilt and a bent toward sin to every human being.", "uid": "12y5nxtxu5fdp" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l10-def-global-south", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "global-south" ], "template": "___ — Africa, Latin America, and Asia — now home to the majority of the world's Christians, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity", "answer": "The Global South", "distractors": [ "Liberation Theology", "Ecumenism", "Prosperity Gospel" ], "derivedFrom": "l10-def-global-south", "explanation": "Compare: Liberation Theology — A movement from 1970s Latin America (Gustavo Gutiérrez) stressing God's \"preferential option for the poor\" and naming structural injustice as sin.", "uid": "pyh6fp13us6y7" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l10-def-ecumenism", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "ecumenism" ], "template": "___ — The movement seeking greater cooperation and eventual unity among Christianity's divided churches and denominations", "answer": "Ecumenism", "distractors": [ "The Global South", "The \"nones\"", "Liberation Theology" ], "derivedFrom": "l10-def-ecumenism", "explanation": "Compare: The Global South — Africa, Latin America, and Asia — now home to the majority of the world's Christians, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity.", "uid": "1p1nz7w1bo81wg" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l10-def-nones", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "united-states" ], "template": "___ — People who claim no religious affiliation — \"spiritual but not religious\" — now about 28% of Americans and a growing share", "answer": "The \"nones\"", "distractors": [ "The Global South", "Ecumenism", "Liberation Theology" ], "derivedFrom": "l10-def-nones", "explanation": "Compare: The Global South — Africa, Latin America, and Asia — now home to the majority of the world's Christians, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity. Ecumenism — The movement seeking greater cooperation and eventual unity among Christianity's divided churches and denominations.", "uid": "1stylpkjvyarm" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l10-def-liberation-theology", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "debates" ], "template": "___ — A movement from 1970s Latin America (Gustavo Gutiérrez) stressing God's \"preferential option for the poor\" and naming structural injustice as sin", "answer": "Liberation Theology", "distractors": [ "The \"nones\"", "Ecumenism", "The Global South" ], "derivedFrom": "l10-def-liberation-theology", "explanation": "Compare: The \"nones\" — People who claim no religious affiliation — \"spiritual but not religious\" — now about 28% of Americans and a growing share. Ecumenism — The movement seeking greater cooperation and eventual unity among Christianity's divided churches and denominations.", "uid": "c0036ivewe6m" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l10-def-prosperity-gospel", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "debates" ], "template": "___ — A teaching, prominent in some Pentecostal contexts, that faith yields material wealth and physical health; widely criticized by mainstream theologians", "answer": "Prosperity Gospel", "distractors": [ "Liberation Theology", "Ecumenism", "The Global South" ], "derivedFrom": "l10-def-prosperity-gospel", "explanation": "Compare: Liberation Theology — A movement from 1970s Latin America (Gustavo Gutiérrez) stressing God's \"preferential option for the poor\" and naming structural injustice as sin.", "uid": "eaqkbm1g9pok4" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l13-def-canon", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "texts" ], "template": "___ — The authoritative list of books accepted as Scripture. The New Testament's 27 books are accepted by all; the Old Testament count varies by tradition", "answer": "Biblical Canon", "distractors": [ "Hermeneutics", "Apocrypha", "Textual Criticism" ], "derivedFrom": "l13-def-canon", "explanation": "Compare: Hermeneutics — The principles and methods of interpreting Scripture — how one reads the Bible shapes one's whole theology. The Global South — Africa, Latin America, and Asia — now home to the majority of the world's Christians, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity.", "uid": "6q1oxz6wljn3" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l13-def-hermeneutics", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "texts" ], "template": "___ — The principles and methods of interpreting Scripture — how one reads the Bible shapes one's whole theology", "answer": "Hermeneutics", "distractors": [ "Biblical Canon", "The Beatitudes", "Trinity" ], "derivedFrom": "l13-def-hermeneutics", "explanation": "Compare: Biblical Canon — The authoritative list of books accepted as Scripture. The New Testament's 27 books are accepted by all; the Old Testament count varies by tradition.", "uid": "dqmr8nlnk2sv" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l13-def-eschatology", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology" ], "template": "___ — The study of 'last things' — the end of history: Christ's return, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell", "answer": "Eschatology", "distractors": [ "Premillennialism", "Parousia", "Original Sin" ], "derivedFrom": "l13-def-eschatology", "explanation": "Compare: Total depravity — The Calvinist view that human nature is wholly corrupted by sin, with no natural inclination toward God. Parousia — The Second Coming — Christ's return in glory to judge the living and the dead, affirmed by all Christian traditions.", "uid": "y588wl1a7p2xt" }, { "id": "czr-christianity-l13-def-parousia", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology" ], "template": "___ — The Second Coming — Christ's return in glory to judge the living and the dead, affirmed by all Christian traditions", "answer": "Parousia", "distractors": [ "Postmillennialism", "Eschatology", "Amillennialism" ], "derivedFrom": "l13-def-parousia", "explanation": "Compare: Total depravity — The Calvinist view that human nature is wholly corrupted by sin, with no natural inclination toward God. Eschatology — The study of 'last things' — the end of history: Christ's return, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell.", "uid": "g1y5iybkf4i8" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l1-fact-crucifixion", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "origins", "rome" ], "template": "In the immediate term, ___ was the instrument of **crucifixion** — an execution method reserved for slaves and rebels. The cross, a tool of imperial terror, would become Christianity's central symbol, an irony at the heart of the faith's origins.", "answer": "Rome", "distractors": [ "Jerusalem", "Geneva", "Bethlehem" ], "derivedFrom": "l1-fact-crucifixion", "explanation": "Compare: Jerusalem — An ancient city held sacred by three major world religions. Geneva — A city in French-speaking Switzerland.", "uid": "oyb7dw1giufrc" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l1-fact-isaiah-servant", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "origins", "hebrew-bible" ], "template": "Among the prophetic books, **Isaiah** describes a suffering Servant who would bear the people's afflictions. ___ read these passages as foreshadowing Jesus — one of many places where they saw the Hebrew Scriptures pointing forward to a figure yet to come.", "answer": "Early Christians", "distractors": [ "Pharisees", "Sadducees", "Essenes" ], "derivedFrom": "l1-fact-isaiah-servant", "explanation": "Compare: Pharisees — One of the four movements that split first-century Jewish society under Roman rule. Sadducees — An aristocratic faction of first-century Judaism, centered on the Jerusalem Temple.", "uid": "1772gl46arjc6" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l2-fact-john-baptist", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "jesus", "ministry" ], "template": "Around age 30, Jesus was baptized in the **___** by **John the Baptist**, an apocalyptic preacher who called Israel to repentance. This event is traditionally treated as the start of Jesus's public ministry, conducted mainly in the **Galilee** region.", "answer": "Jordan River", "distractors": [ "Dead Sea", "Nile River", "Euphrates River" ], "derivedFrom": "l2-fact-john-baptist", "uid": "ro3j7y10akihc" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l2-fact-twelve-disciples", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "jesus", "ministry" ], "template": "Jesus gathered twelve core followers, among them **Peter**, **Andrew**, **James**, **John**, **Matthew**, **Thomas**, and **___**. Several were Galilean fishermen. The number twelve deliberately echoed the **twelve tribes of Israel**, signaling a renewed people of God.", "answer": "Judas Iscariot", "distractors": [ "Mary Magdalene", "Pontius Pilate", "King Herod" ], "derivedFrom": "l2-fact-twelve-disciples", "uid": "18dgqjj1idax3p" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l2-fact-ascension-commission", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "jesus", "passion" ], "template": "After **40 days**, Jesus is said to have ascended to heaven, instructing his disciples to take his teachings to \"all the nations\" — the **___** (Matthew 28:19–20). This charge framed the missionary expansion that followed.", "answer": "Great Commission", "distractors": [ "The Sermon on the Mount", "The Resurrection", "The Two Great Commandments" ], "derivedFrom": "l2-fact-ascension-commission", "explanation": "Compare: The Resurrection — This event is considered the cornerstone of Christian faith and belief.", "uid": "1kepp8t1f1uc1t" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l3-fact-three-journeys", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "apostolic", "paul" ], "template": "Between roughly **42 and 62 CE**, Paul undertook **three major missionary journeys** across ___ (modern Turkey), Greece, and eventually Rome. He planted churches in city after city and stayed connected to them through letters — many of which became Scripture.", "answer": "Asia Minor", "distractors": [ "Mesopotamia", "Judea", "North Africa" ], "derivedFrom": "l3-fact-three-journeys", "uid": "16wej2213axxnc" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l4-fact-council-nicaea", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "councils", "nicaea" ], "template": "In **325 CE** Constantine summoned the **First Council of ___**, the largest gathering of bishops the church had yet seen — by tradition some **318 bishops** (estimates range from about 250 to 318). It met chiefly to settle the **Arian controversy** over the nature of the Son.", "answer": "Nicaea", "distractors": [ "Rome", "Bethlehem", "Canterbury" ], "derivedFrom": "l4-fact-council-nicaea", "explanation": "Compare: Rome — The capital of Italy, traditionally built on seven hills. Bethlehem — A town in the West Bank, just south of Jerusalem.", "uid": "1nk2u931j0xcrh" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l9-fact-catholic-largest", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "branches", "catholic" ], "template": "With roughly **1.3 billion members**, the **___** is the largest Christian body and the largest single religious organization on Earth. It is governed by the **Pope** — the Bishop of Rome — together with a hierarchy of cardinals, bishops, priests, and deacons.", "answer": "Roman Catholic Church", "distractors": [ "Eastern Orthodox Church", "Anglican Communion", "Lutheran Church" ], "derivedFrom": "l9-fact-catholic-largest", "uid": "1ndgiux1s18wt7" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l14-fact-diagram-jesus", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "jesus" ], "template": "From **___** to the **Ascension** — the arc the Gospels trace.", "answer": "Bethlehem", "distractors": [ "Canterbury", "Rome", "Geneva" ], "derivedFrom": "l14-fact-diagram-jesus", "explanation": "Compare: Canterbury — A cathedral city in southeast England. Rome — The capital of Italy, traditionally built on seven hills.", "uid": "16qzeneuxjn4k" }, { "id": "mcq-c-christianity-l14-fact-diagram-jesus", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "jesus" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "From **___** to the **Ascension** — the arc the Gospels trace." }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Canterbury" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Compare: Canterbury — A cathedral city in southeast England. Rome — The capital of Italy, traditionally built on seven hills.", "derivedFrom": "l14-fact-diagram-jesus", "uid": "m0ktcfe6jnrz" }, { "id": "cz-christianity-l14-fact-diagram-councils", "shape": "cloze", "tags": [ "councils" ], "template": "Four centuries of doctrine-defining councils, from Nicaea (325) to ___ (787).", "answer": "Nicaea II", "distractors": [ "Constantinople II", "Constantinople III", "Eastern Orthodox Church" ], "derivedFrom": "l14-fact-diagram-councils", "uid": "yil43qqxh7x2" }, { "id": "mcq-c-christianity-l14-fact-diagram-councils", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "councils" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Four centuries of doctrine-defining councils, from Nicaea (325) to ___ (787)." }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea II" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople III" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Eastern Orthodox Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople II" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "derivedFrom": "l14-fact-diagram-councils", "uid": "91h4bt15v6g3b" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l1-pair-pharisees", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "origins", "judea" ], "statement": "\"Pharisees\" refers to \"Rigorous keepers of the Torah and its oral tradition\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Pharisees refers to Rigorous keepers of the Torah and its oral tradition.", "derivedFrom": "l1-pair-pharisees", "uid": "hhc5tsfc8ejm" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l1-pair-sadducees", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "origins", "judea" ], "statement": "\"Sadducees\" refers to \"Rigorous keepers of the Torah and its oral tradition\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Sadducees actually refers to Temple-centered aristocrats.", "derivedFrom": "l1-pair-sadducees", "uid": "1fv9bp81kf1y94" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l1-pair-essenes", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "origins", "judea" ], "statement": "\"Essenes\" refers to \"Ascetic desert communalists who produced the Dead Sea Scrolls\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Essenes refers to Ascetic desert communalists who produced the Dead Sea Scrolls.", "derivedFrom": "l1-pair-essenes", "uid": "f0aevmtjqyma" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l1-pair-zealots", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "origins", "judea" ], "statement": "\"Zealots\" refers to \"Nationalist revolutionaries who sought to overthrow Rome by force\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Zealots refers to Nationalist revolutionaries who sought to overthrow Rome by force.", "derivedFrom": "l1-pair-zealots", "uid": "ulfyqh17eagxl" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l2-pair-good-samaritan", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "jesus", "parables" ], "statement": "The Good Samaritan is \"Humility before God is greater than religious pride\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "The Good Samaritan actually is Neighborly love transcends ethnic and religious divisions.", "derivedFrom": "l2-pair-good-samaritan", "uid": "htr58l194h0un" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l2-pair-prodigal-son", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "jesus", "parables" ], "statement": "The Prodigal Son is \"God's radical forgiveness and welcome of the repentant\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "The Prodigal Son is God's radical forgiveness and welcome of the repentant.", "derivedFrom": "l2-pair-prodigal-son", "uid": "1pd38vs1ue2jym" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l2-pair-sower", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "jesus", "parables" ], "statement": "The Sower and the Soils is \"God's pursuit of every single individual\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "The Sower and the Soils actually is Four types of reception to God's word.", "derivedFrom": "l2-pair-sower", "uid": "5kxwqlo9ildn" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l2-pair-lost-sheep", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "jesus", "parables" ], "statement": "The Lost Sheep is \"Four types of reception to God's word\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "The Lost Sheep actually is God's pursuit of every single individual.", "derivedFrom": "l2-pair-lost-sheep", "uid": "1kmlvst19o0w7f" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l2-pair-mustard-seed", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "jesus", "parables" ], "statement": "The Mustard Seed is \"Neighborly love transcends ethnic and religious divisions\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "The Mustard Seed actually is The Kingdom begins small but grows to encompass all.", "derivedFrom": "l2-pair-mustard-seed", "uid": "eue9ya1io0gd8" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l2-pair-pharisee-tax", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "jesus", "parables" ], "statement": "The Pharisee and the Tax Collector is \"Humility before God is greater than religious pride\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "The Pharisee and the Tax Collector is Humility before God is greater than religious pride.", "derivedFrom": "l2-pair-pharisee-tax", "uid": "d17wws5gtecw" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l4-pair-ephesus", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "councils", "ecumenical" ], "statement": "\"Ephesus (431)\" refers to \"Declared Mary to be Theotokos ('God-bearer'), against Nestorianism\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Ephesus (431) refers to Declared Mary to be Theotokos (\"God-bearer\"), against Nestorianism.", "derivedFrom": "l4-pair-ephesus", "uid": "1ifsjkh1wgzewr" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l4-pair-chalcedon", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "councils", "ecumenical" ], "statement": "\"Chalcedon (451)\" refers to \"Christ has two natures, divine and human, united in one Person\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Chalcedon (451) refers to Christ has two natures, divine and human, united in one Person.", "derivedFrom": "l4-pair-chalcedon", "uid": "1mooyjl18l1sbr" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l4-pair-constantinople-iii", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "councils", "ecumenical" ], "statement": "\"Constantinople III (680)\" refers to \"Affirmed that Christ has two wills, divine and human, not one\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Constantinople III (680) refers to Affirmed that Christ has two wills, divine and human, not one.", "derivedFrom": "l4-pair-constantinople-iii", "uid": "cggab8rpnu8q" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l4-pair-nicaea-ii", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "councils", "ecumenical" ], "statement": "\"Nicaea II (787)\" refers to \"Christ has two natures, divine and human, united in one Person\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Nicaea II (787) actually refers to Permitted the veneration of icons, ending the first iconoclasm.", "derivedFrom": "l4-pair-nicaea-ii", "uid": "1w4zucuilg1v6" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l6-pair-luther-supper", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "reformed", "vocabulary" ], "statement": "Luther on the Lord's Supper is \"The movement seeking visible unity among divided Christian churches\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Luther on the Lord's Supper actually is Christ is really, physically present in the bread and wine.", "derivedFrom": "l6-pair-luther-supper", "uid": "1biiev18orw61" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l7-pair-first-awakening", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "mission", "awakening" ], "statement": "\"First Great Awakening (1730s–40s)\" refers to \"Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "First Great Awakening (1730s–40s) refers to Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield.", "derivedFrom": "l7-pair-first-awakening", "uid": "5m27i4418pmq" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l7-pair-second-awakening", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "mission", "awakening" ], "statement": "\"Second Great Awakening (early 1800s)\" refers to \"Charles Finney, camp meetings & circuit riders\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Second Great Awakening (early 1800s) refers to Charles Finney, camp meetings & circuit riders.", "derivedFrom": "l7-pair-second-awakening", "uid": "1wv54j41si8108" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l7-pair-third-awakening", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "mission", "awakening" ], "statement": "\"Third Great Awakening (1880s–1900s)\" refers to \"Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Third Great Awakening (1880s–1900s) actually refers to The Holiness movement.", "derivedFrom": "l7-pair-third-awakening", "uid": "c0ta62tkwaou" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l8-pair-pentecostal", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "theology", "sin" ], "statement": "\"Pentecostal emphasis\" refers to \"The Catholic doctrine that bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Pentecostal emphasis actually refers to A \"second blessing\" of Spirit baptism, often evidenced by speaking in tongues.", "derivedFrom": "l8-pair-pentecostal", "uid": "1vwzj3hdqrs8d" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l9-pair-divine-liturgy", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "branches", "orthodox" ], "statement": "Divine Liturgy is \"The ancient Eastern Orthodox worship service, traditionally of John Chrysostom or Basil the Great.\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Divine Liturgy is The ancient Eastern Orthodox worship service, traditionally of John Chrysostom or Basil the Great..", "derivedFrom": "l9-pair-divine-liturgy", "uid": "golodr25duit" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l9-pair-iconography", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "branches", "orthodox" ], "statement": "\"Iconography\" refers to \"The ancient Eastern Orthodox worship service, traditionally of John Chrysostom or Basil the Great.\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Iconography actually refers to Sacred images venerated in Orthodoxy as \"windows into heaven.\".", "derivedFrom": "l9-pair-iconography", "uid": "5hthj65l393u" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l9-pair-baptist", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "branches", "protestant", "baptist" ], "statement": "\"Baptist\" refers to \"A transdenominational movement marked by biblical authority, a born-again experience, and active evangelism.\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Baptist actually refers to Practices believer's baptism (adults on profession of faith) and local church autonomy..", "derivedFrom": "l9-pair-baptist", "uid": "1qnmkyprddki1" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l10-pair-1964", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "modern", "ecumenism" ], "statement": "\"1964\" refers to \"Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "1964 refers to Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem.", "derivedFrom": "l10-pair-1964", "uid": "bijlzf1p6exr5" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l10-pair-1965", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "modern", "ecumenism" ], "statement": "\"1965\" refers to \"Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "1965 actually refers to The mutual excommunications of 1054 are formally lifted.", "derivedFrom": "l10-pair-1965", "uid": "19cyjn3aw70v3" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l10-pair-1999", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "modern", "ecumenism" ], "statement": "\"1999\" refers to \"Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "1999 refers to Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed.", "derivedFrom": "l10-pair-1999", "uid": "9upmudyr2nsb" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l11-pair-wilberforce", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "figures", "modern" ], "statement": "William Wilberforce is \"Polish pope (1978–2005) who helped end communism and energized world Catholicism\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "William Wilberforce actually is Evangelical MP whose campaign drove the abolition of the British slave trade.", "derivedFrom": "l11-pair-wilberforce", "uid": "1elyeyabpsbuc" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l11-pair-john-paul-ii", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "figures", "modern" ], "statement": "Pope John Paul II is \"Polish pope (1978–2005) who helped end communism and energized world Catholicism\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Pope John Paul II is Polish pope (1978–2005) who helped end communism and energized world Catholicism.", "derivedFrom": "l11-pair-john-paul-ii", "uid": "14rsgh5w2fza9" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l12-pair-nazareth", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "places", "jesus" ], "statement": "Nazareth is \"Four types of reception to God's word\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Nazareth actually is Galilean town where Jesus grew up.", "derivedFrom": "l12-pair-nazareth", "uid": "3fx61o1e57n4a" }, { "id": "tf-f-christianity-l13-pair-ecumenism", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern" ], "statement": "\"Ecumenism\" means \"The Catholic doctrine that bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ\".", "isTrue": false, "why": "Ecumenism actually means The movement seeking visible unity among divided Christian churches.", "derivedFrom": "l13-pair-ecumenism", "uid": "ogb3hlxf9rfn" }, { "id": "tf-t-christianity-l13-pair-transubstantiation", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology" ], "statement": "\"Transubstantiation\" means \"The Catholic doctrine that bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ\".", "isTrue": true, "why": "Transubstantiation means The Catholic doctrine that bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ.", "derivedFrom": "l13-pair-transubstantiation", "uid": "mhwqqz11qvw6x" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l1-def-messiah", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "judea" ], "statement": "Covenant: A divinely anointed leader expected to deliver Israel; a hope shared across the rival Jewish groups.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Messiah\", not \"Covenant\".", "derivedFrom": "l1-def-messiah", "uid": "32k7t6yx6iqo" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l1-def-pax-romana", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "rome" ], "statement": "Pentecostalism: The \"Roman Peace\" — a long span of relative stability across the Mediterranean that eased travel and communication.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Pax Romana\", not \"Pentecostalism\".", "derivedFrom": "l1-def-pax-romana", "uid": "1sr28p2f1g2oe" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l1-def-tanak", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "hebrew-bible" ], "statement": "TaNaK: The Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"TaNaK\".", "derivedFrom": "l1-def-tanak", "uid": "ikrem4wmzoqa" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l1-def-covenant", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "hebrew-bible" ], "statement": "TaNaK: A binding relationship God enters into with his people; the central thread linking the Hebrew Bible to Christian interpretation.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Covenant\", not \"TaNaK\".", "derivedFrom": "l1-def-covenant", "uid": "1rowmhf121phk3" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l2-def-john-baptist", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "jesus" ], "statement": "The Kingdom of God: An apocalyptic preacher who baptized Jesus in the Jordan and called Israel to repentance ahead of the coming Kingdom.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"John the Baptist\", not \"The Kingdom of God\".", "derivedFrom": "l2-def-john-baptist", "uid": "g2ts361vltz7q" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l2-def-kingdom-of-god", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "jesus" ], "statement": "The Kingdom of God: The new social and spiritual reality Jesus proclaimed as breaking into the world — the central theme of his preaching.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"The Kingdom of God\".", "derivedFrom": "l2-def-kingdom-of-god", "uid": "c1vtkeiu1st6" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l2-def-golgotha", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "passion" ], "statement": "Filioque: \"The place of the skull\" — the site outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; also called Calvary.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Golgotha\", not \"Filioque\".", "derivedFrom": "l2-def-golgotha", "uid": "b8ni2sgn56m0" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l3-def-pentecost", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentecost" ], "statement": "Pentecost: The Jewish feast, fifty days after Passover, when the disciples reported the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; traditionally the birth of the Church.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Pentecost\".", "derivedFrom": "l3-def-pentecost", "uid": "k2d4b71cgoteh" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l3-def-pentarchy", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentarchy" ], "statement": "Predestination: The five patriarchal centers of early Christianity: Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Pentarchy\", not \"Predestination\".", "derivedFrom": "l3-def-pentarchy", "uid": "10gsw6pk4biox" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l3-def-justification", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "paul" ], "statement": "The Body of Christ: Paul's teaching that people are made right with God by grace through faith, not by earning it: \"By grace you have been saved through faith.\"", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Justification by faith\", not \"The Body of Christ\".", "derivedFrom": "l3-def-justification", "uid": "ie9c5f1eomyrd" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l3-def-body-of-christ", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "paul" ], "statement": "Kenosis: Paul's image of the church as a single living organism whose members have diverse but interdependent roles.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"The Body of Christ\", not \"Kenosis\".", "derivedFrom": "l3-def-body-of-christ", "uid": "3rkinp1sb5ih7" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l3-def-kenosis", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "paul" ], "statement": "The Body of Christ: From Philippians 2: Christ \"emptied himself\" of divine prerogative in the Incarnation, taking the form of a servant.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Kenosis\", not \"The Body of Christ\".", "derivedFrom": "l3-def-kenosis", "uid": "5hhh6algir4g" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l4-def-edict-of-milan", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "constantine" ], "statement": "Modalism: The 313 CE proclamation by Constantine and Licinius granting religious toleration to Christians throughout the Roman Empire.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Edict of Milan\", not \"Modalism\".", "derivedFrom": "l4-def-edict-of-milan", "uid": "itz3rm1tlaixc" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l4-def-homoousios", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "nicaea", "trinity" ], "statement": "Tritheism: Greek for \"of the same substance\" — the Nicene term declaring the Son to be the same substance as the Father, against Arius.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Homoousios\", not \"Tritheism\".", "derivedFrom": "l4-def-homoousios", "uid": "4m2dv11xku5vx" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l4-def-theotokos", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "ecumenical" ], "statement": "Theotokos: Greek for \"God-bearer\" — the title for Mary affirmed at Ephesus (431), asserting that the one she bore was truly God.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Theotokos\".", "derivedFrom": "l4-def-theotokos", "uid": "159hrybbq7ye" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l4-def-original-sin", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "augustine", "theology" ], "statement": "Original Sin: Augustine's doctrine that Adam's sin corrupted all human nature, passing guilt and a bent toward sin to every human being.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Original Sin\".", "derivedFrom": "l4-def-original-sin", "uid": "eaijs14mc9rt" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l4-def-cenobitic", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "monasticism" ], "statement": "Cenobitic monasticism: Monastic life lived in community under a shared rule, as opposed to the solitary (eremitic) life of a hermit.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Cenobitic monasticism\".", "derivedFrom": "l4-def-cenobitic", "uid": "1uscqliapco42" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l5-def-papacy", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "papacy" ], "statement": "Investiture Controversy: The office and authority of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, who claimed leadership over the Western church.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Papacy\", not \"Investiture Controversy\".", "derivedFrom": "l5-def-papacy", "uid": "wvzsciqx5k4g" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l5-def-investiture", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "papacy" ], "statement": "Papacy: An 11th–12th century conflict over whether the Pope or secular rulers had the right to appoint bishops and other church officials.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Investiture Controversy\", not \"Papacy\".", "derivedFrom": "l5-def-investiture", "uid": "1d2nnmb1m9ue75" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l5-def-filioque", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "schism" ], "statement": "Papal Primacy: Latin for \"and from the Son\" — words the West added to the Nicene Creed about the Holy Spirit, which the East rejected as an unauthorized change.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Filioque\", not \"Papal Primacy\".", "derivedFrom": "l5-def-filioque", "uid": "1dmc1ms7o5avq" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l5-def-papal-primacy", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "schism" ], "statement": "Filioque: Rome's claim to supreme authority over the whole church; the East held instead to a collegial model of five equal patriarchs.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Papal Primacy\", not \"Filioque\".", "derivedFrom": "l5-def-papal-primacy", "uid": "1vuotz17yg8dn" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l5-def-scholasticism", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "scholasticism" ], "statement": "Natural Law: The medieval method of using rigorous logic and Greek philosophy to systematize Christian theology, exemplified by Aquinas.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Scholasticism\", not \"Natural Law\".", "derivedFrom": "l5-def-scholasticism", "uid": "1a5fuvm18aux7g" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l5-def-natural-law", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "scholasticism" ], "statement": "Scholasticism: Aquinas's idea that a moral order is built into creation and accessible to human reason apart from revelation.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Natural Law\", not \"Scholasticism\".", "derivedFrom": "l5-def-natural-law", "uid": "o4szaw184u5jw" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l6-def-indulgence", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "luther" ], "statement": "Indulgence: A church certificate claiming to remit time owed in purgatory; their sale was the abuse that triggered Luther's protest.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Indulgence\".", "derivedFrom": "l6-def-indulgence", "uid": "15pic6g1a7ons" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l6-def-sola-scriptura", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology", "luther" ], "statement": "Eschatology: \"Scripture alone\" — the Protestant principle that the Bible, not church tradition or the pope, is the supreme authority for doctrine.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Sola Scriptura\", not \"Eschatology\".", "derivedFrom": "l6-def-sola-scriptura", "uid": "vxt1ry1se5zoc" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l6-def-sola-fide", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology", "luther" ], "statement": "Sola Fide: \"Faith alone\" — the principle that salvation is received through faith, not earned through works or sacraments.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Sola Fide\".", "derivedFrom": "l6-def-sola-fide", "uid": "bv8fiy14jcub2" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l6-def-predestination", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "reformed", "theology" ], "statement": "Parousia: Calvin's teaching that God eternally elects some to salvation and passes over others, entirely by divine choice and not by foreseen merit.", "isTrue": false, "why": 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"tf-df-christianity-l6-def-counter-reformation", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "counter-reformation" ], "statement": "The Kingdom of God: The Roman Catholic Church's reforming and defensive response to the Protestant Reformation, driven chiefly by the Jesuits and the Council of Trent.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Counter-Reformation\", not \"The Kingdom of God\".", "derivedFrom": "l6-def-counter-reformation", "uid": "ofxsy4a0rboo" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l7-def-missionary", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "mission" ], "statement": "Sublimis Deus: A person sent to spread a religious faith, typically in a new region or culture; central to Christianity's global expansion.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Missionary\", not \"Sublimis Deus\".", "derivedFrom": "l7-def-missionary", "uid": "kacbcg1rq3008" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l7-def-sublimis-deus", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "mission" ], "statement": "Missionary: Pope Paul III's 1537 papal bull affirming the rational nature and human dignity of indigenous Americans and condemning their enslavement.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Sublimis Deus\", not \"Missionary\".", "derivedFrom": "l7-def-sublimis-deus", "uid": "lf370kytkdng" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l7-def-glossolalia", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentecostalism" ], "statement": "The Beatitudes: \"Speaking in tongues\" — utterance of unintelligible or unknown speech understood as a gift of the Holy Spirit; the signature practice of Pentecostalism.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Glossolalia\", not \"The Beatitudes\".", "derivedFrom": "l7-def-glossolalia", "uid": "1wmsfl0zagttm" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l7-def-pentecostalism", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "pentecostalism" ], "statement": "Pentecostalism: A renewal movement born at Azusa Street (1906) emphasizing baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, divine healing, and direct spiritual experience.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Pentecostalism\".", "derivedFrom": "l7-def-pentecostalism", "uid": "1hs1tjz1koqf0z" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l8-def-trinity", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "trinity" ], "statement": "Homoousios: The doctrine that the one God exists as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Trinity\", not \"Homoousios\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-trinity", "uid": "1hm97gw8l76iw" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l8-def-tritheism", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "trinity" ], "statement": "Trinity: The error of treating Father, Son, and Spirit as three separate gods — rejected by Trinitarian orthodoxy.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Tritheism\", not \"Trinity\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-tritheism", "uid": "soayymv04vkg" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l8-def-modalism", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "trinity" ], "statement": "Modalism: The error that the one God merely appears in three successive modes or masks, rather than existing as three distinct persons.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Modalism\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-modalism", "uid": "1ke68xr88n9hx" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l8-def-incarnation", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "incarnation" ], "statement": "The Incarnation: The belief that God took on human flesh in Jesus, who is fully God and fully human — two natures in one person.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"The Incarnation\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-incarnation", "uid": "1iromzi1qfvl06" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l8-def-original-sin", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sin" ], "statement": "Original Sin: The doctrine that Adam's first disobedience corrupted human nature, passing a fallen condition to all of humanity.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Original Sin\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-original-sin", "uid": "15zz1359suwdh" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l8-def-salvation", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sin" ], "statement": "Redemption: The restoration of a right relationship with God — the cure for sin, applied to the individual.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Salvation\", not \"Redemption\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-salvation", "uid": "xwtfci10ninym" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l8-def-redemption", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sin" ], "statement": "Original Sin: Christ's atoning work on the cross — \"buying back\" humanity from bondage to sin and death.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Redemption\", not \"Original Sin\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-redemption", "uid": "1kv6jncly1qii" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l8-def-sacrament", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sacraments" ], "statement": "Sacrament: A physical rite believed to convey spiritual grace, such as Baptism or the Eucharist.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Sacrament\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-sacrament", "uid": "17k2ob31996vj" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l8-def-eucharist", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "sacraments" ], "statement": "Eucharist: The sacrament of bread and wine recalling Christ's Last Supper; also called Communion, the Lord's Supper, or the Mass.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Eucharist\".", "derivedFrom": "l8-def-eucharist", "uid": "1eap9c01c5kjte" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l9-def-ex-cathedra", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "catholic" ], "statement": "Sacred Tradition: The Catholic teaching that the Pope's formal doctrinal pronouncements, made \"from the chair\" of Peter, are preserved from error.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Ex cathedra infallibility\", not \"Sacred Tradition\".", "derivedFrom": "l9-def-ex-cathedra", "uid": "9gpuzf5qyatx" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l9-def-sacred-tradition", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "catholic" ], "statement": "Sacred Tradition: The body of teaching handed down from the apostles alongside Scripture; Catholics and Orthodox treat it as a source of doctrine, not Scripture alone.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Sacred Tradition\".", "derivedFrom": "l9-def-sacred-tradition", "uid": "1c4fpwiii5uig" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l9-def-autocephalous", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "orthodox" ], "statement": "Autocephalous: Literally \"self-headed\"; an Orthodox national church that governs itself under its own patriarch rather than a central authority.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Autocephalous\".", "derivedFrom": "l9-def-autocephalous", "uid": "5a3ijn2g2skb" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l9-def-theosis", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "orthodox" ], "statement": "Theosis: \"Deification\" — the Orthodox vision of salvation as actual participation in the divine nature, not merely the forgiveness of sins.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Theosis\".", "derivedFrom": "l9-def-theosis", "uid": "1c5qd0ohkpcrm" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l10-def-global-south", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "global-south" ], "statement": "The Global South: Africa, Latin America, and Asia — now home to the majority of the world's Christians, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"The Global South\".", "derivedFrom": "l10-def-global-south", "uid": "ccvj141q3fw50" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l10-def-ecumenism", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "ecumenism" ], "statement": "The Global South: The movement seeking greater cooperation and eventual unity among Christianity's divided churches and denominations.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Ecumenism\", not \"The Global South\".", "derivedFrom": "l10-def-ecumenism", "uid": "zk8nvduu58n3" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l10-def-pentecostalism", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "pentecostal" ], "statement": "Pentecostalism: A movement emphasizing baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and miraculous healing; one in four Christians worldwide is Pentecostal.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Pentecostalism\".", "derivedFrom": "l10-def-pentecostalism", "uid": "vww7xul961" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l10-def-nones", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "united-states" ], "statement": "The \"nones\": People who claim no religious affiliation — \"spiritual but not religious\" — now about 28% of Americans and a growing share.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"The 'nones'\".", "derivedFrom": "l10-def-nones", "uid": "yynrm551ctud" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l10-def-liberation-theology", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "debates" ], "statement": "Liberation Theology: A movement from 1970s Latin America (Gustavo Gutiérrez) stressing God's \"preferential option for the poor\" and naming structural injustice as sin.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Liberation Theology\".", "derivedFrom": "l10-def-liberation-theology", "uid": "17pbaw919lt22v" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l10-def-prosperity-gospel", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "modern", "debates" ], "statement": "Liberation Theology: A teaching, prominent in some Pentecostal contexts, that faith yields material wealth and physical health; widely criticized by mainstream theologians.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Prosperity Gospel\", not \"Liberation Theology\".", "derivedFrom": "l10-def-prosperity-gospel", "uid": "yc21e519s4vaj" }, { "id": "tf-df-christianity-l13-def-canon", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "texts" ], "statement": "Hermeneutics: The authoritative list of books accepted as Scripture.", "isTrue": false, "why": "That's the definition of \"Biblical Canon\", not \"Hermeneutics\".", "derivedFrom": "l13-def-canon", "uid": "1yi63c19t8vmi" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l13-def-hermeneutics", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "texts" ], "statement": "Hermeneutics: The principles and methods of interpreting Scripture — how one reads the Bible shapes one's whole theology.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Hermeneutics\".", "derivedFrom": "l13-def-hermeneutics", "uid": "ikllro30x1a6" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l13-def-eschatology", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology" ], "statement": "Eschatology: The study of 'last things' — the end of history: Christ's return, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Eschatology\".", "derivedFrom": "l13-def-eschatology", "uid": "oxdhc218ov63s" }, { "id": "tf-d-christianity-l13-def-parousia", "shape": "trueFalse", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theology" ], "statement": "Parousia: The Second Coming — Christ's return in glory to judge the living and the dead, affirmed by all Christian traditions.", "isTrue": true, "why": "That definition is correct for \"Parousia\".", "derivedFrom": "l13-def-parousia", "uid": "1l2dxu527mm49" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-council-of-constantinople", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "event", "tags": [ "event", "ecumenical-council", "doctrine" ], "name": "The Council of Constantinople", "clues": [ "The second of the seven ecumenical councils, meeting a little over half a century after the very first.", "Convened in 381, it built on the earlier gathering that had condemned Arianism.", "Its central achievement was completing the doctrine of the Trinity — the three distinct, co-eternal Persons." ], "uid": "60zu451pcfbnr" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-council-of-ephesus", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "event", "tags": [ "event", "ecumenical-council", "mary" ], "name": "The Council of Ephesus", "clues": [ "A fifth-century ecumenical council called to settle a dispute over Mary's proper title.", "Meeting in 431, it rejected Nestorianism, the view that split Christ into two.", "It upheld Mary as Theotokos, the God-bearer, because the one Person she bore is both God and man." ], "uid": "5zoa3pkizc1x" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-council-of-chalcedon", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "event", "tags": [ "event", "ecumenical-council", "christology" ], "name": "The Council of Chalcedon", "clues": [ "An ecumenical council of the mid-fifth century, called to define exactly who Christ is.", "Meeting in 451, it rejected Monophysitism, the claim that Christ had only one 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"concept-rw-christianity-zealots", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "thing", "tags": [ "thing", "judaism", "sect" ], "name": "Zealots", "clues": [ "A first-century Jewish faction defined by militant politics rather than temple or text.", "Nationalist revolutionaries, they were committed to overthrowing Roman rule by force.", "Their armed resistance helped trigger the catastrophic Jewish-Roman War of 66-70 CE." ], "uid": "1plgc2ucqbis" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-good-samaritan", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "thing", "tags": [ "thing", "parable", "jesus" ], "name": "The Good Samaritan", "clues": [ "A parable of Jesus teaching that neighborly love transcends ethnic and religious divisions.", "Its moral hero belongs to a group that Jewish audiences of the day openly despised." ], "uid": "k3p17kkrk5yq" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-prodigal-son", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "thing", "tags": [ "thing", "parable", "jesus" ], "name": "The Prodigal Son", "clues": [ "A parable about God's radical forgiveness and welcome of the repentant.", "Its central image is a father's joyful reception of a child who had squandered his inheritance." ], "uid": "1hppoo1jlqksv" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-mustard-seed", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "thing", "tags": [ "thing", "parable", "jesus" ], "name": "The Mustard Seed", "clues": [ "A parable describing how the Kingdom of God grows over time.", "It teaches that the Kingdom begins small but grows to encompass all." ], "uid": "1i754yg1l6yfmy" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-pharisee-and-the-tax-collector", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "thing", "tags": [ "thing", "parable", "jesus" ], "name": "The Pharisee and the Tax Collector", "clues": [ "A parable teaching that humility before God matters more than religious pride.", "It casts a pious, self-satisfied religious insider as the cautionary example rather than the hero." ], "uid": "fdr5kf1apwu5x" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-sower-and-the-soils", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "thing", "tags": [ "thing", "parable", "jesus" ], "name": "The Sower and the Soils", "clues": [ "A parable about the different ways people receive God's word.", "It sorts those responses into four distinct types of reception." ], "uid": "1xmkavmcp289a" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-nero", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "person", "tags": [ "person", "emperor", "persecution" ], "name": "Nero", "clues": [ "The first Roman emperor to launch an empire-wide persecution of Christians.", "After the great fire of 64 CE, he pinned the blame on Christians as a convenient scapegoat.", "Tradition places the martyrdoms of both Peter and Paul in Rome during his reign." ], "uid": "w8643g7riisq" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-domitian", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "person", "tags": [ "person", "emperor", "persecution" ], "name": "Domitian", "clues": [ "A Roman emperor who revived the persecution 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"conceptKind": "event", "tags": [ "event", "council", "doctrine" ], "name": "The First Council of Constantinople", "clues": [ "An ecumenical council of 381 that completed the doctrine of the Trinity.", "It affirmed the full divinity of the Holy Spirit.", "It produced the final, expanded form of the Nicene Creed, addressing the Spirit left unresolved in 325." ], "uid": "f45g5s1wrfjei" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-third-council-of-constantinople", "shape": "concept", "conceptKind": "event", "tags": [ "event", "council", "doctrine" ], "name": "The Third Council of Constantinople", "clues": [ "An ecumenical council of 680 that resolved a subtle question about Christ's inner life.", "It rejected the Monothelite heresy, which held that Christ had only one composite will.", "It affirmed that Christ has two wills, divine and human, his human will freely submitting to the divine." ], "uid": "rd321516yw0f7" }, { "id": "concept-rw-christianity-the-great-schism-of-1054", "shape": 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The Pharisees, by contrast, championed the oral tradition.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "a2e4cl2m0jrf" }, { "id": "ot-factions-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "zealots", "revolt" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which faction was committed to overthrowing Roman rule by force?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Sadducees" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pharisees" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Essenes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Zealots" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Zealots were nationalist revolutionaries whose armed resistance helped ignite the Jewish-Roman War of 66-70 CE. The Sadducees instead collaborated cautiously with Rome.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "y8fvlz1fd0421" }, { "id": "ot-factions-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pharisees", "distinctions" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement about the Pharisees is NOT accurate?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "They rigorously kept the Torah" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "They believed in resurrection" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "They controlled the temple priesthood", "short": "They ran the temple priesthood" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "They upheld the oral tradition", "short": "They upheld the Oral Torah" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Controlling the temple priesthood describes the Sadducees, not the Pharisees. The Pharisees kept the Torah and oral tradition, held popular authority, and believed in resurrection.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1rbyv2g1nd93pa" }, { "id": "ot-factions-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pharisees", "torah" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Rigorous keepers of the Torah and its oral tradition who held enormous popular authority describes which group?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Sadducees" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Essenes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pharisees" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Zealots" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Pharisees were rigorous keepers of the Torah and its oral tradition with wide popular authority. 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A prefect was a Roman-appointed governor, a different role entirely.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "2l0oqitf854y" }, { "id": "ot-messiah-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "messiah", "shared-hope" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What made the messianic hope significant across first-century Judea?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It was rejected by every major faction", "short": "It was rejected by all factions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was held only by the Zealots" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was shared across the rival Jewish groups", "short": "It was shared by rival groups" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was unique to the Essenes at Qumran", "short": "It was unique to the Essenes" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The longing for a Messiah cut across the competing movements rather than belonging to just one, making it a broadly shared expectation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "67src4144chr8" }, { "id": "ot-messiah-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "messiah", "deliverance" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What did the hoped-for Messiah promise to bring Israel?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The rebuilding of Babylon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A newly written Torah" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Permanent withdrawal to the desert" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Deliverance from foreign rule" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Messiah was expected to deliver Israel from foreign (Roman) domination. The other options describe unrelated ideas not tied to messianic hope.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "j59etp15onsgz" }, { "id": "ot-messiah-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "messiah", "occupation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Why is first-century Judea described as a 'pressure cooker' for messianic expectation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Permitted religion combined with political subjugation under Rome", "short": "Religion allowed but Rome ruled" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman citizenship granted to the whole Jewish population", "short": "Roman citizenship for all Jews" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Total religious freedom and widespread prosperity", "short": "Religious freedom and prosperity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The complete absence of any Temple worship", "short": "Complete absence of the Temple" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Jews kept their religion and Temple but chafed under Roman political rule; that mix of permitted faith and subjugation fueled intense longing for a deliverer.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1tdzhg160ghun" }, { "id": "ot-messiah-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "messiah", "misconception" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement about the messianic hope is NOT true?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It looked for a divinely anointed deliverer", "short": "It looked for a divine deliverer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It anticipated deliverance for Israel", "short": "It anticipated Israel's rescue" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was confined to a single small sect", "short": "It belonged to one small sect" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was widespread across the province", "short": "It was widespread across Judea" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The hope was widespread and shared across rival groups, not confined to one small sect. The other three statements accurately describe it.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1548h2n40aef5" }, { "id": "ot-rome-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pax-romana", "stability" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the term 'Pax Romana' refer to?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A long span of relative political stability across the Mediterranean", "short": "A long era of peace for Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The treaty that ended the Jewish-Roman War", "short": "The treaty ending the Jewish war" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A tax levied on every imperial province", "short": "A tax on imperial provinces" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A network of paved Roman military roads", "short": "A network of military roads" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Pax Romana, or 'Roman Peace,' was a long stretch of relative stability that eased travel and communication. Roads were a separate asset, not the Pax Romana itself.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1onxn6rfurnlf" }, { "id": "ot-rome-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crucifixion", "execution" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Crucifixion was a Roman execution reserved specifically for which category of person?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman citizens" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Foreign kings" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Temple priests" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Slaves and rebels" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Crucifixion was reserved for slaves and rebels and designed to be public and degrading. Roman citizens were exempt by law.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1xeyqx31utw0pn" }, { "id": "ot-rome-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "infrastructure", "spread" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of the following was NOT one of the Roman assets that later helped Christianity spread?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Pax Romana", "short": "The peace known as the Pax Romana" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A universal written legal code", "short": "The universal written legal code" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Koine Greek", "short": "The common tongue of Koine Greek" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman roads", "short": "The network of the Roman roads" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The guide names roads, the shared Koine Greek language, and the Pax Romana as the enabling infrastructure. A universal written legal code is not among them.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "c8q56ed8fkry" }, { "id": "ot-rome-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crucifixion", "scandal" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Why was the early Christian claim that a crucified man was the Son of God deliberately scandalous?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Crucifixion was reserved for Roman nobility", "short": "Cross reserved for Roman nobility" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He had never actually been executed", "short": "He was never actually executed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The cross was a recognized symbol of Roman honor", "short": "Cross symbolized Roman honor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Crucifixion marked him, in Roman eyes, as a seditious slave or rebel", "short": "Cross marked him a rebel/slave" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Because crucifixion was for slaves and rebels, dying that way placed Jesus in the lowest legal category, making the 'Son of God' claim scandalous in Roman culture.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1jw9092vulku0" }, { "id": "ot-hebrew-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canon", "old-testament" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many books does the Old Testament contain in the Protestant count?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "27" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "46" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "24" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "39" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Protestant Old Testament contains 39 books. 27 is the number of New Testament books, so it is a tempting but wrong choice here.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "15saa2p18pgx33" }, { "id": "ot-hebrew-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "tanak", "hebrew-bible" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What do Jews call the Hebrew Bible that Christians refer to as the Old Testament?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The TaNaK" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Talmud" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Mishnah" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Septuagint" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "TaNaK is the Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible. The Talmud and Mishnah are later rabbinic works, and the Septuagint is a Greek translation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1tyfh9w16j37y8" }, { "id": "ot-hebrew-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "covenant", "thread" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is the central thread that runs through the Hebrew Bible and links it to Christian interpretation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Covenant" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Diaspora" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Exodus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Temple" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Covenant, God's binding relationship with his people renewed through Abraham, Moses, and David, is the central thread. The Exodus is one episode within that larger story.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "lccsh41xaw93g" }, { "id": "ot-hebrew-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "covenant", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "A 'covenant' in the Hebrew Bible is best defined as which of the following?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A prescribed list of Temple sacrifices", "short": "A list of Temple sacrifices" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A census of the twelve tribes", "short": "A census of the tribes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A collection of prophetic writings", "short": "A collection of prophecies" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A binding relationship God enters into with his people", "short": "A binding pact with God" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "A covenant is a binding relationship God enters into with his people, first with Abraham and renewed through Moses and David.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "gj1yfgzee4ci" }, { "id": "ot-prophecy-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "isaiah", "suffering-servant" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Isaiah describes a figure who 'bore our griefs' and was 'wounded for our transgressions.' What is this figure called?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Anointed King" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Righteous Judge" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Son of Man" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Suffering Servant" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Isaiah's Servant Songs describe a Suffering Servant, language early Christians applied to Jesus. The other titles are not the subject of these passages.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1vyzzxwklzgra" }, { "id": "ot-prophecy-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "isaiah", "servant-songs" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Early Christians used Isaiah's Servant Songs primarily to explain what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Why the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed", "short": "Why the Temple was destroyed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The exact date the Messiah would return", "short": "When the Messiah would return" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Why the Messiah had to suffer and die rather than conquer militarily", "short": "Why the Messiah had to suffer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "How the world was created in six days", "short": "How the world was first created" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Servant Songs (Isaiah 52-53) gave early Christians the language to explain why the Messiah had to suffer and die instead of winning a military victory.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "6xehej8ephgj" }, { "id": "ot-prophecy-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "jeremiah", "new-covenant" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The New Covenant that the New Testament sees fulfilled in Jesus was promised to be written where?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "In the Dead Sea Scrolls" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "On stone tablets" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "On the human heart" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "On the temple walls", "short": "On Jerusalem's Temple walls" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The promised New Covenant was to be written on the human heart rather than on stone tablets, which the New Testament identifies as fulfilled in Jesus.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7nf5honw4gbs" }, { "id": "ot-prophecy-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "jeremiah", "prophets" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which prophet promised a New Covenant that the New Testament identifies as fulfilled in Jesus?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Daniel" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Moses" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jeremiah" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Isaiah" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Jeremiah added the promise of a New Covenant written on the heart. Isaiah supplied the Suffering Servant imagery, a related but distinct contribution.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mpdrj7nmjejj" }, { "id": "ot-prophecy-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "typology", "fulfillment" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did early Christians read the Hebrew Scriptures in relation to Jesus?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "As a body of law he came to abolish", "short": "As a law Jesus came to abolish" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As foreshadowing or typologically anticipating his work", "short": "As a foreshadowing of Christ" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As myths with no bearing on him", "short": "As myths with no relevance" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As texts unrelated to the Messiah" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Christians claimed to be the rightful heirs of the Hebrew Scriptures and read stories and prophecies as foreshadowing or typologically anticipating Jesus.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1wdca1u1xbr202" }, { "id": "ot-birth-ministry-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "baptism", "john the baptist" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who baptized Jesus, marking the traditional start of his public ministry?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter the fisherman" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Judas Iscariot" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pontius Pilate" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John the Baptist" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Around age 30 Jesus was baptized in the Jordan by John the Baptist, an apocalyptic preacher who called Israel to repentance; this is traditionally treated as the start of his ministry.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1j3t35euxnw20" }, { "id": "ot-birth-ministry-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "baptism", "jordan" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which body of water was Jesus baptized?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Jordan River" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Nile River" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Euphrates River" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Dead Sea" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist, beginning a ministry conducted mainly in Galilee.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "8bx3xt1apm26h" }, { "id": "ot-birth-ministry-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "disciples", "twelve tribes" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The choice of exactly twelve core disciples was meant to echo what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The twelve gates of Jerusalem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The twelve books of the Law" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The twelve months of the calendar" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The twelve tribes of Israel" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Twelve deliberately mirrored the twelve tribes of Israel, signaling that Jesus was reconstituting the covenant people of God around himself.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ptmhp11dj8pa9" }, { "id": "ot-birth-ministry-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "disciples", "not" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of these was NOT one of Jesus's twelve disciples?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Doubting Thomas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Andrew the Fisherman" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Simon Peter" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pontius Pilate" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Peter, Andrew, and Thomas were among the Twelve; Pontius Pilate was the Roman prefect who later sentenced Jesus, not a disciple.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "dylzhbq6xl8r" }, { "id": "ot-kingdom-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "kingdom of god" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What was the central theme of Jesus's preaching?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Kingdom of God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The rebuilding of the Temple" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The overthrow of Roman rule" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The abolition of the Sabbath" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Kingdom of God — a new social and spiritual reality breaking into the world — was the central theme of Jesus's preaching, not political revolt or temple reform.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1bj2gzrs1hie7" }, { "id": "ot-kingdom-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "kingdom of god", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How does the guide define the Kingdom of God?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "An afterlife reserved only for temple priests", "short": "Afterlife for temple priests only" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The new social and spiritual reality Jesus proclaimed as breaking into the world", "short": "New spiritual reality breaking in" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A strict code of dietary and purity laws", "short": "Strict Levitical purity code" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A literal army that would drive Rome from Judea", "short": "Army to drive Rome from Judea" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Kingdom of God is the new social and spiritual reality Jesus proclaimed as breaking into the world — the core of his message, not a political or ritual program.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "71i62zx2bivv" }, { "id": "ot-kingdom-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "kingdom of god", "john the baptist" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "John the Baptist called Israel to repentance in anticipation of what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The coming Kingdom 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"text", "value": "It was primarily a military campaign to expel Rome from Judea", "short": "A military campaign against Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was the central theme of Jesus's preaching", "short": "Central theme of Jesus's message" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Kingdom was a social and spiritual reality, the core of Jesus's message that John anticipated — not a military campaign against Rome, which is the misrepresentation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1pluj561ytd55o" }, { "id": "ot-kingdom-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "kingdom of god", "apocalyptic" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "According to John's preaching, the Kingdom of God was about to do what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Arrive only after Rome collapsed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Remain hidden for many centuries", "short": "Stay hidden until the Judgment" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Break into the world imminently" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Be built up by human effort over generations", "short": "Be built by human effort slowly" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "John proclaimed the Kingdom as about to break imminently into the world, tied to God's coming judgment — an apocalyptic expectation Jesus built upon.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "d5td7fjw8cm5" }, { "id": "ot-sermon-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sermon on the mount", "matthew" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which section of Scripture is the Sermon on the Mount preserved?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Mark 8 through 10" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Luke 1 through 3" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Matthew 5 through 7" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John 14 through 17" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Matthew 5–7 preserves the Sermon on the Mount, the longest single block of Jesus's teaching, delivered on a hillside in Galilee.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "xoilx3ttduwj" }, { "id": "ot-sermon-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "beatitudes" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Beatitudes are best described as?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Blessings that invert social hierarchy", "short": "Blessings that upend social rank" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A schedule of Jewish feast days" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A list of temple sacrifice rules", "short": "Levitical sacrifice rules list" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Curses pronounced on the wealthy" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Beatitudes open the Sermon on the Mount with blessings that invert social hierarchy — blessing the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, and the peacemakers.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "64lqji1dphudc" }, { "id": "ot-sermon-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "beatitudes", "meek" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "\"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the ___.\" What word completes the Beatitude?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Temple" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Heavens" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Earth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Crown" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Beatitude reads \"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth,\" one of the reversals that open the Sermon on the Mount.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "q3mua1u97hx4" }, { "id": "ot-sermon-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sermon on the mount", "not" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which teaching is NOT part of the Sermon on the Mount?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Love of enemies and non-retaliation", "short": "Loving enemies and not retaliating" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Offering ritual animal sacrifice at the Temple", "short": "Ritual sacrifice at the Temple" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The impossibility of serving both God and money", "short": "You cannot serve God and money" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Praying in secret rather than for show", "short": "Praying in secret not for show" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The sermon covers love of enemies, non-retaliation, secret prayer, and not serving both God and money — but not temple animal sacrifice.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1nldypt1smfair" }, { "id": "ot-sermon-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "beatitudes" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which groups does the guide list among those the Beatitudes call blessed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman officials and soldiers", "short": "Roman officials and their soldiers" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The poor in spirit and the peacemakers", "short": "The poor in spirit and peacemakers" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Temple priests and scribes", "short": "Temple priests and their scribes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The rich and the powerful", "short": "The rich and the very powerful" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Beatitudes bless the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, and the peacemakers — inverting the era's usual social hierarchy.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1bpk3meavkmv0" }, { "id": "ot-parables-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parables", "good samaritan" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which parable teaches that neighborly love transcends ethnic and religious divisions?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Mustard Seed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Good Samaritan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Lost Sheep" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Sower and the Soils" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Good Samaritan casts a despised Samaritan as the moral hero, teaching that neighborly love crosses ethnic and religious boundaries.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1w373621s9hkc8" }, { "id": "ot-parables-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parables", "pharisee" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Pharisee and the Tax Collector teaches which central lesson?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Humility before God is greater than religious pride", "short": "Humility outranks religious pride" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Kingdom begins small but grows large", "short": "Small beginnings grow very large" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wealth endangers the indifferent", "short": "Wealth endangers the indifferent soul" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "God pursues every single individual", "short": "God pursues each and every individual" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The parable reverses expectations: the humble tax collector, not the proud Pharisee, is justified — humility before God outranks religious pride.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1osojff1qynmjx" }, { "id": "ot-parables-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parables", "sower" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which parable illustrates \"four types of reception to God's word\"?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Good Samaritan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Lost Sheep" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Mustard Seed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Sower and the Soils" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Sower and the Soils describes seed falling on four kinds of ground, representing four types of reception to God's word.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mbeonz1u7kt7f" }, { "id": "ot-parables-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parables", "rich man lazarus" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Rich Man and Lazarus warns primarily against what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Neglect of temple worship" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The moral danger of wealth and indifference to the poor", "short": "The moral danger of wealth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The temptation of political power", "short": "The lure of political power" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Marrying outside the faith" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The parable dramatizes the moral danger of wealth paired with indifference to the poor at one's gate.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "17fgzm715wiyc3" }, { "id": "ot-passion-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "golgotha", "crucifixion" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the name \"Golgotha\" mean?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The place of the skull" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The upper room" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Garden of Gethsemane" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The city of David" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Golgotha means \"the place of the skull,\" the site outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "s9na5016zu69i" }, { "id": "ot-passion-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "golgotha", "calvary" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Golgotha is also known by which other name, derived from Latin?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Calvary" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nazareth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Gethsemane" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Golgotha is also called Calvary, from the Latin word for skull. Gethsemane was the garden of the arrest, not the crucifixion site.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "let6bhixa5b9" }, { "id": "ot-passion-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "resurrection", "paul" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did the apostle Paul describe the stakes of the Resurrection for Christian faith?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Faith stands or falls with it, and so does the whole enterprise", "short": "Faith stands or falls with it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It merely confirmed an existing Roman prophecy", "short": "Confirmation of a Roman prophecy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It replaced the authority of the Sanhedrin", "short": "Replacement of Sanhedrin rule" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It formally ended the Passover festival", "short": "The end of the Passover feast" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Paul framed the Resurrection as non-negotiable: \"If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile\" — without it the entire movement collapses.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1f3tgie91xggm" }, { "id": "ot-passion-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sanhedrin", "trial" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Before which body was Jesus tried on a charge of blasphemy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Roman Senate" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The court of King Herod" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Sanhedrin" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Jesus was tried before the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish court, on a charge of blasphemy; lacking capital authority, it handed the case to Pilate.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1om7augahdt8i" }, { "id": "ot-pentecost-baptized", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecost", "acts" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "According to Acts 2, roughly how many people were baptized after Peter's sermon at Pentecost?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "About 500" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 3,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 8,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 120" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Acts 2 records about 3,000 baptized in a single day — a precise number marking Pentecost as a founding moment, not a gradual process.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "n1wx8r1shggi3" }, { "id": "ot-pentecost-preacher", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecost", "peter" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which disciple addressed the Pentecost crowd, after which thousands were baptized?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "James" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Stephen" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Peter preached to the gathered crowd at Pentecost. Paul was not yet a Christian, James led the Jerusalem church later, and Stephen was an early martyr.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "4w8uex3jk6mp" }, { "id": "ot-pentecost-spirit", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecost", "holy-spirit" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "According to Acts 2, in what form did the Holy Spirit arrive at Pentecost?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "As wind and fire" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a violent earthquake" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a descending dove" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a pillar of cloud" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Acts 2 describes the Spirit arriving as wind and tongues of fire. The dove is associated with Jesus' baptism, not Pentecost.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "rd3wu6101aota" }, { "id": "ot-pentecost-emperor", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecost", "chronology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecost is conventionally dated to 30–33 CE, placing it within the reign of which Roman emperor?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Tiberius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nero" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Claudius" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The 30–33 CE dating falls within Tiberius's reign. Augustus died in 14 CE; Nero and Claudius reigned decades later.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1b1nsmiivhe1o" }, { "id": "ot-pentarchy-five", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentarchy", "cities" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which set of cities correctly names the five patriarchal centers of the Pentarchy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Rome, Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem, Ephesus, Alexandria, Rome, Carthage" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, Carthage" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, Constantinople" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Pentarchy comprised Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople. Corinth, Ephesus, and Carthage were important churches but not among the five seats.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "jd4cq5x3r6dx" }, { "id": "ot-pentarchy-christians", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentarchy", "antioch" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which Pentarchy city were followers of Jesus first called 'Christians' (Acts 11:26)?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Acts 11:26 says the disciples were first called 'Christians' at Antioch, which also served as a hub for the Gentile mission.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "nlxh5cjfyrz8" }, { "id": "ot-pentarchy-alexandria", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentarchy", "alexandria" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Pentarchy city was traditionally founded by Mark and became a center of Christian philosophy and learning in Egypt?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Alexandria, tradition holds, was founded by Mark and became Egypt's great center of Christian scholarship. Antioch anchored the Gentile mission; Rome and Constantinople were the imperial seats.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "3s650s1trzjii" }, { "id": "ot-pentarchy-not", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentarchy", "cities" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of these cities was NOT one of the five patriarchal seats of the Pentarchy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Corinth" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The five seats were Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople. Corinth had an important Pauline church but was never a Pentarchy seat.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "txcy96e8a7j6" }, { "id": "ot-pentarchy-constantinople", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentarchy", "constantinople" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Pentarchy city was founded by Constantine as the 'New Rome' and became the seat of the Eastern Church?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Constantinople was founded in 330 CE as the 'New Rome' and became the Eastern Church's seat. Rome was the old capital; Antioch and Alexandria were eastern learning centers.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1nflbdn178fr5v" }, { "id": "ot-paul-damascus", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "paul", "conversion" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "On the road to which city did Saul of Tarsus report his conversion vision of the risen Jesus, around 36 CE?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Damascus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Tarsus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Saul's blinding vision came on the road to Damascus around 36 CE. Tarsus was his birthplace; Jerusalem and Antioch figured later in his career.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1hn7hqdi6wjel" }, { "id": "ot-paul-books", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "paul", "letters" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Tradition attributes how many of the New Testament's 27 books to Paul?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "27" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "66" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "13" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "4" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Tradition credits Paul with 13 of the 27 NT books, its most prolific contributor. 27 is the whole New Testament, 4 the Gospels, and 66 the entire Protestant Bible.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "v0mo5jz25xl" }, { "id": "ot-paul-region", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "paul", "journeys" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul's three missionary journeys took him through which region, corresponding to modern Turkey?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "North Africa" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Mesopotamian Region" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Asia Minor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Iberian Peninsula" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Paul traveled through Asia Minor (modern Turkey), Macedonia, and Greece, and eventually to Rome — not Mesopotamia, North Africa, or Iberia.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1rmxe0i119jgpi" }, { "id": "ot-paul-saul-not", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "paul", "pharisee" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of the following is NOT true of Saul of Tarsus before his conversion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "He was educated as a Pharisee" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He actively persecuted the early church", "short": "He persecuted the early church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He had been baptized by Peter in Jerusalem", "short": "He was baptized by Peter" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He was present at the stoning of Stephen", "short": "He saw Stephen being stoned" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Saul was a Pharisee who persecuted the church and witnessed Stephen's stoning; he was never baptized by Peter — his conversion came through a vision on the Damascus road.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1o2rgr21l22wbq" }, { "id": "ot-theology-justification", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pauline-theology", "justification" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Pauline concept holds that people are made right with God by grace through faith, not by earning it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Kenosis Doctrine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Justification by faith" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Body of Christ" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Divine Predestination" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Justification by faith is Paul's teaching that right standing with God comes through grace and faith, not moral performance. Kenosis and the Body of Christ address other themes.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "93sbqe19eay3y" }, { "id": "ot-theology-body", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pauline-theology", "body-of-christ" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul's image of the church as a single living organism with diverse but interdependent members is called what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Pentarchy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Body of Christ" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Justification by faith" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Kenosis" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Body of Christ is Paul's metaphor for the church as one interdependent organism. Justification and kenosis concern salvation and the Incarnation; the Pentarchy names five cities.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1tidh47n5jjo5" }, { "id": "ot-theology-kenosis", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pauline-theology", "kenosis" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Pauline concept teaches that Christ 'emptied himself' of divine prerogative in taking human form?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Eschatology" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Body of Christ" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Kenosis" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Justification by faith" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Kenosis, from Philippians 2, describes Christ emptying himself of divine prerogative to take the form of a servant — distinct from justification or the Body of Christ.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "15jc99p1tzs789" }, { "id": "ot-theology-kenosis-source", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pauline-theology", "kenosis" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul's concept of kenosis is drawn from which New Testament passage?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Acts 2" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Philippians 2" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John 1" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Romans 8" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Kenosis comes from Philippians 2, where Christ 'emptied himself.' Acts 2 recounts Pentecost; Romans 8 and John 1 address other themes.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mnkq8n44dyhv" }, { "id": "ot-theology-not", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pauline-theology", "review" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement about Paul's signature concepts is FALSE?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Kenosis teaches that Christ kept full use of his divine power on earth", "short": "Kenosis: Christ kept divine power" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Justification comes by grace through faith", "short": "Justified by grace through faith" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Kenosis is drawn from Philippians 2", "short": "Kenosis comes from Philippians 2" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Body of Christ has diverse but interdependent members", "short": "Body of Christ: interdependent parts" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Kenosis means the opposite: Christ emptied himself of divine prerogative. The other three statements accurately state Paul's concepts.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "14yb0xn74xegn" }, { "id": "ot-canon-books", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canon", "new-testament" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many books make up the New Testament?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "27" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "39" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "66" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "13" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The New Testament comprises 27 books, all written in Greek. 39 is the Hebrew Bible count and 66 the whole Protestant Bible; 13 is Paul's traditional share.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1x9h0hgvj1gy4" }, { "id": "ot-canon-mark", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canon", "gospels" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of the four Gospels is the earliest, dated around 70 CE?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "John" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Mark" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Luke" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Matthew" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Mark is the earliest Gospel (~70 CE), shortly after Jerusalem's destruction. Matthew (~85), Luke (~95), and John (~90–100) followed.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "dsxlp318ezz67" }, { "id": "ot-persecution-nero", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "persecution", "nero" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which emperor blamed Christians for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE and launched the first empire-wide persecution?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Domitian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Diocletian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Decius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nero" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Nero scapegoated Christians for the 64 CE fire, starting the first empire-wide persecution. Domitian, Decius, and Diocletian led later waves.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "16wx8wts1r4hd" }, { "id": "ot-canon-athanasius", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canon", "athanasius" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Whose Easter letter of 367 CE gave the first surviving list matching the New Testament's 27 books?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerome of Stridon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine the Great" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Athanasius of Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Eusebius of Caesarea" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Athanasius of Alexandria's 367 CE Easter letter named exactly the 27 books, the first surviving list matching today's canon. The others shaped church history in other ways.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "22qgu3s5bull" }, { "id": "ot-legal-milan-did", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "edict-of-milan", "toleration" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What did the Edict of Milan (313 CE) actually do for Christians in the Roman Empire?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Banned pagan sacrifices and closed the temples", "short": "Banned pagan rites and shut the temples" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Made Christianity the empire's official state religion", "short": "Made Christianity the state faith" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Granted them religious toleration and ended the persecution", "short": "Granted them religious toleration" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Condemned the teachings of Arius as heresy", "short": "Condemned the teachings of Arius" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan granted toleration and returned confiscated property; it stopped persecution but did NOT make Christianity official. That came later under Theodosius in 380.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "6hcf4g1s84jkc" }, { "id": "ot-legal-milan-year", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "edict-of-milan", "dates" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year did Constantine and Licinius issue the Edict of Milan?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "325 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "380 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "313 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "312 CE" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan was issued in 313 CE. 312 was the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 325 was Nicaea, and 380 was Theodosius making Christianity the state religion.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1oj7g6q9sr3yi" }, { "id": "ot-legal-coemperor", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "edict-of-milan", "constantine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which co-emperor issued the Edict of Milan together with Constantine I?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Diocletian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Licinius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Athanasius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Theodosius I" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Constantine issued the Edict of Milan jointly with his co-emperor Licinius. Theodosius came decades later; Athanasius was a bishop, not an emperor.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "q425hv1dkv0g7" }, { "id": "ot-legal-theodosius", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "theodosius", "state-religion" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which emperor made Nicene Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380 CE?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Licinius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine I" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Diocletian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Theodosius I" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica in 380, making Nicene Christianity the state religion. Constantine only legalized it in 313; Diocletian had persecuted it.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "18u8a671ueza4h" }, { "id": "ot-legal-milan-not", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "edict-of-milan", "distinctions" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement about the Edict of Milan is NOT accurate?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It was issued jointly by Constantine and Licinius", "short": "Issued by Constantine and Licinius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It ordered confiscated church property returned", "short": "Ordered church property returned" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It made Christianity the empire's official state religion", "short": "Made Christianity the state faith" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It granted Christians religious toleration", "short": "Granted Christians toleration" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan only granted toleration and returned property; it did NOT establish Christianity as official. Establishment waited until Theodosius in 380.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7c754syx8rp2" }, { "id": "ot-nicaea-year", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea", "dates" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year did the First Council of Nicaea meet?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "313 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "380 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "381 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "325 CE" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Nicaea I met in 325 CE. 313 was the Edict of Milan, 381 was Constantinople I, and 380 was Theodosius making Christianity the state religion.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "jjgdro3418tu" }, { "id": "ot-nicaea-summoned", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea", "constantine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who summoned the First Council of Nicaea?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Licinius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Theodosius I" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine I" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Athanasius of Alexandria" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Emperor Constantine I summoned Nicaea in 325 to resolve the Arian controversy. Athanasius attended as a defender of orthodoxy but did not convene it.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mbdfybtfbnvx" }, { "id": "ot-nicaea-arius", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "arius", "arianism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What did Arius of Alexandria teach about the Son of God?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "He possessed two wills, divine and human", "short": "Two wills both divine and human" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He was of the same substance as the Father", "short": "Same substance as the Father" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He had two natures united in one Person", "short": "Two natures within one Person" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He was a created being, not eternal or of the Father's substance", "short": "Created and therefore not eternal" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Arius taught the Son was created — 'there was once when he was not' — subordinate to the Father. Nicaea rejected this, affirming the Son as homoousios with the Father.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "hb8p7o96hjho" }, { "id": "ot-nicaea-athanasius", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "athanasius", "arianism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who was Arius's chief opponent, insisting on the full and eternal divinity of the Son?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Athanasius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine I" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pelagius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nestorius" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Athanasius of Alexandria argued a created Son could not save creation, defending the Son's full divinity. Nestorius and Pelagius belong to later controversies.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "5ubanl7utg4j" }, { "id": "ot-councils-const1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "constantinople-i", "holy-spirit" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which council affirmed the full divinity of the Holy Spirit and finalized the Nicene Creed?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople I (381)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Chalcedon (451)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ephesus (431)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea I (325)" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Constantinople I (381) affirmed the Holy Spirit's divinity, completing the Trinity and producing the final Nicene Creed. Nicaea I had addressed the Son; Ephesus and Chalcedon addressed Christ.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "zajdeb7alut3" }, { "id": "ot-councils-ephesus", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "ephesus", "theotokos" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "For which ruling is the Council of Ephesus (431) best known?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Affirming that Christ has two wills", "short": "Affirming Christ has two wills" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Defining Christ's two natures in one Person", "short": "Defining two natures in one Person" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Declaring Mary the Theotokos, against Nestorianism", "short": "Declaring Mary the Theotokos" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Permitting the veneration of icons", "short": "Permitting veneration of icons" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Ephesus declared Mary Theotokos ('God-bearer') against Nestorius. Two natures was Chalcedon, two wills was Constantinople III, and icons was Nicaea II.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "4omobxbn9xtv" }, { "id": "ot-councils-nicaea2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea-ii", "icons" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which council ended the first iconoclasm by permitting the veneration of icons?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Chalcedon (451)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea I (325)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople III (680)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea II (787)" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Nicaea II (787), the last of the seven councils, permitted icon veneration while distinguishing it from worship due to God. Nicaea I addressed Arianism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "10ua0221wz48te" }, { "id": "ot-councils-const3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "constantinople-iii", "two-wills" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople III (680) settled which question about Christ?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "That Christ has two natures in one Person", "short": "That Christ has two natures" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That the Son is of the same substance as the Father", "short": "That the Son shares substance" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That Mary is rightly called God-bearer", "short": "That Mary is the God-bearer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That Christ has two wills, divine and human", "short": "That Christ has two wills" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Constantinople III affirmed Christ has two wills against Monothelitism. Two natures was Chalcedon, same substance was Nicaea I, and God-bearer was Ephesus.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "a0u6v019qpn9i" }, { "id": "ot-christ-theotokos-mean", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "theotokos", "ephesus" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The title Theotokos, affirmed for Mary at Ephesus, translates as what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "God-bearer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ever-Virgin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Christ-bearer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Mother of the Church" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Theotokos means 'God-bearer', asserting the one Mary bore was truly God. Nestorius preferred 'Christ-bearer', which Ephesus rejected as dividing Christ.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1bji39q1ngwwi4" }, { "id": "ot-christ-theotokos-council", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "theotokos", "ephesus" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At which council was Mary declared Theotokos?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea II (787)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ephesus (431)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople I (381)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Chalcedon (451)" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Ephesus (431) declared Mary Theotokos against Nestorianism. Chalcedon defined Christ's two natures; Constantinople I addressed the Holy Spirit; Nicaea II addressed icons.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1gklrawjhwgzm" }, { "id": "ot-christ-chalcedon-natures", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "chalcedon", "two-natures" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did the Council of Chalcedon (451) define the person of Christ?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Two natures, divine and human, united in one Person", "short": "Two natures, one person" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Two wills but a single nature", "short": "Two wills but one nature" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One blended divine-human nature", "short": "One nature blending both" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One purely divine nature" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Chalcedon defined Christ as fully God and fully human — two natures in one Person — rejecting the Monophysite view that the natures merged into one.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "13lk3kxx4ciw7" }, { "id": "ot-christ-icons-controversy", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "icons", "iconoclasm" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea II (787) permitted the veneration of icons, ending which controversy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Arianism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Iconoclasm" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Monophysitism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nestorianism" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Nicaea II ended the first iconoclasm (image-breaking) by permitting veneration of icons, distinguished from worship due to God alone. The others are earlier heresies.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "grtila3jj9z6" }, { "id": "ot-christ-chalcedon-reject", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "chalcedon", "monophysitism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Chalcedon's two-natures formula was framed against which rejected view?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Pelagianism — humans can choose good unaided", "short": "Pelagianism — humans can choose good" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Monophysitism — the two natures merged into one", "short": "Monophysitism — the natures merged" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Arianism — the Son is a created being", "short": "Arianism — the Son was created" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nestorianism — Mary is only Christ-bearer", "short": "Nestorianism — Mary bore only the Christ" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Chalcedon rejected Monophysitism, which held the incarnation blended the divine and human into a single nature. The Oriental Orthodox churches did not accept Chalcedon.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1cqmfd2iu8mxw" }, { "id": "ot-aug-original-sin", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "original-sin", "augustine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is Augustine's doctrine of Original Sin?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Humans are born moral blank slates who freely choose good or evil", "short": "Born blank slates, free to choose" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Adam's sin corrupted all human nature, passing guilt to every person", "short": "Adam's sin passes guilt to all" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Each person sins only by freely imitating Adam's bad example", "short": "We sin only by imitating Adam" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The material body is inherently evil and traps a pure soul", "short": "The body is inherently evil" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Augustine taught Adam's rebellion corrupted human nature, passing guilt and a disordered will to all — so salvation is wholly God's gift. The other views resemble Pelagius or the Manichaeans.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1g19z0s1txxe0q" }, { "id": "ot-aug-cenobitic-mean", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "cenobitic", "monasticism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What defines cenobitic monasticism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Monastic life in community under a shared common rule", "short": "Community life under a rule" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Monastic life bound by no rule at all", "short": "Monastic life with no rule" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The solitary hermit (eremitic) life in the desert", "short": "The solitary hermit life" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The life of a wandering, homeless preacher", "short": "The wandering preacher life" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Cenobitic monasticism is communal life under a shared rule, as opposed to the eremitic (solitary hermit) life. Pachomius organized the first cenobitic monasteries.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "5tgq6w6qvw9u" }, { "id": "ot-aug-pachomius", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pachomius", "cenobitic" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who organized the first communal (cenobitic) monasteries with written rules?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Benedict of Nursia" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Anthony the Great" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pachomius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Athanasius of Alexandria" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Pachomius (c. 290–346) founded the first cenobitic monasteries. Anthony lived the solitary eremitic life; Benedict later codified Western monasticism two centuries on.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11i73bq1rromxc" }, { "id": "ot-aug-anthony-eremitic", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "anthony", "eremitic" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Anthony the Great, called the father of Christian monasticism, practiced which form of monastic life?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The mendicant (wandering friar) life", "short": "The mendicant friar's life" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The eremitic (solitary hermit) life", "short": "The eremitic solitary life" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The canonical (cathedral clergy) life", "short": "The canonical cathedral life" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The cenobitic (communal) life under a rule", "short": "The cenobitic communal life" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Anthony retreated alone into the desert — the eremitic (solitary) life. Communal cenobitic monasteries came later with Pachomius; his example, not invention, made him definitive.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1qzpz2gt50g4" }, { "id": "ot-papacy-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "papacy", "fall-of-rome" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year did the Western Roman Empire collapse, leaving the Pope as Western Europe's leading figure?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "410 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1054 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "476 CE" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "800 CE" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE. The resulting power vacuum let the Bishop of Rome become the most powerful figure in Western Europe. 800 was Charlemagne's coronation; 1054 was the Great Schism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "18rjig6helkzi" }, { "id": "ot-papacy-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "papacy", "authority" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "After Rome's fall, which figure filled the political vacuum and became the organizing authority of medieval Europe?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Bishop of Rome, the Pope", "short": "The Pope as bishop of Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Archbishop of Canterbury" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Patriarch of Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Holy Roman Emperor", "short": "The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "With no emperor to govern the West, the Bishop of Rome — the Pope — inherited Rome's administrative infrastructure and became the leading figure. The Eastern patriarch led only the East.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mfczfz1nkqggx" }, { "id": "ot-papacy-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "investiture", "authority" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What was disputed in the Investiture Controversy (1076–1122)?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Who had the right to appoint bishops and abbots — pope or secular rulers", "short": "Pope or ruler appoints bishops?" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Whether Scripture should be translated into common languages", "short": "Translating Scripture for laity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Whether the Filioque belonged in the Nicene Creed", "short": "Filioque's place in the Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Which patriarch held primacy over the Eastern church", "short": "Which patriarch leads the East" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Investiture Controversy was a struggle over who could 'invest' — appoint — church officials, since those offices controlled vast lands and revenues. The Filioque and Scripture translation were separate disputes.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ifs24v1d9odlp" }, { "id": "ot-papacy-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canossa", "investiture" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At Canossa, how did Pope Gregory VII force Emperor Henry IV to submit?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Burning him at a church council", "short": "Burned him at a church council" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Crowning a rival emperor in his place", "short": "Crowned a rival emperor instead" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Excommunicating him, then making him stand barefoot in the snow for three days", "short": "Excommunicated; barefoot in snow" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Diverting a Crusade against his lands", "short": "Diverted a Crusade at his lands" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Gregory VII excommunicated Henry IV in 1076, releasing his subjects from their oaths. Henry stood barefoot in winter snow at Canossa for three days until the ban was lifted — the defining image of papal power over kings.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mx58q5mjvp7x" }, { "id": "ot-schism-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "filioque", "schism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the disputed term 'Filioque' mean, and why did the East reject it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "'And from the Father' — a phrase the West deleted from the Creed", "short": "'And from the Father'; West cut it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "'And from the Son' — added to the Nicene Creed as an unauthorized change", "short": "'And from the Son'; added to Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "'Bishop of Rome' — a title the East refused to grant the Pope", "short": "'Bishop of Rome'; a papal title" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "'Five patriarchs' — a governing model Rome would not accept", "short": "'Five patriarchs'; a church model" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Filioque is Latin for 'and from the Son.' The West added it to the Nicene Creed to affirm the Spirit proceeds from Father and Son; the East rejected altering a council-ratified text.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "y4tghv1dx2i2t" }, { "id": "ot-schism-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "papal-primacy", "schism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did the Eastern church's model of authority differ from the Western claim of papal primacy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The East held to five equal patriarchs; Rome claimed supreme authority over all", "short": "The East kept five equal patriarchs" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The East recognized the Emperor, not any bishop, as church head", "short": "The East saw the Emperor as head" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Both East and West recognized the Pope as sole supreme head", "short": "Both sides recognized the Pope" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The East gave the Pope even greater power than Rome claimed", "short": "The East gave the Pope more power" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Papal primacy was Rome's claim to supreme authority over the whole church. The East held a collegial model of five equal patriarchs, rejecting Rome's claim to lead them all.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "155ey7i6lcx4u" }, { "id": "ot-schism-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "schism", "chronology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year did the Great Schism formally split Eastern and Western Christianity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "1095" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1054" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "800" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1122" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "In 1054, legates from Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople issued mutual excommunications, formalizing the split. 1095 was the First Crusade; 1122 the Concordat of Worms.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "3kb4h7wklvv" }, { "id": "ot-schism-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "schism", "catholic-orthodox" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The 1054 Great Schism split Christianity into which two churches?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman Catholic and Protestant" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran and Reformed", "short": "Lutheran and Reformed churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox", "short": "Catholic and Eastern Orthodox" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Eastern Orthodox and Coptic" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The 1054 break formalized the division into the Roman Catholic (West) and Eastern Orthodox (East) churches. Protestant and Lutheran bodies arose only later, in the Reformation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ph1agbwbh2o" }, { "id": "ot-schism-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "schism", "causes" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of these was NOT a cause of the growing rift that led to the 1054 Great Schism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome's claim to papal primacy over all churches", "short": "Rome's claim to papal primacy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Filioque added to the Nicene Creed", "short": "Filioque added to the Nicene Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Different liturgical languages, Greek versus Latin", "short": "Greek vs. Latin liturgical language" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A dispute over whether pope or emperor could appoint bishops in the West", "short": "Pope vs. emperor appointing bishops" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The pope-versus-emperor fight over appointing bishops was the Investiture Controversy, a Western dispute — not a schism cause. The Filioque, papal primacy, and the Greek-Latin language divide all drove the East-West split.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "zms8lwtj0yfi" }, { "id": "ot-schol-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "scholasticism", "method" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How is Scholasticism best defined?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Using rigorous logic and Greek philosophy to systematize Christian theology", "short": "Using Greek logic to order theology" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Abandoning reason in favor of mystical revelation", "short": "Abandon reason for mystical revelation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rejecting Greek philosophy as incompatible with faith", "short": "Reject Greek philosophy as anti-faith" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Preaching poverty and repentance in the open streets", "short": "Preach poverty and repentance in streets" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Scholasticism applied rigorous Aristotelian logic — posing objections, counterarguments, and solutions — to systematize theology, exemplified by Aquinas. It embraced Greek philosophy rather than rejecting it.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1x3ylm6174sswu" }, { "id": "ot-schol-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "natural-law", "aquinas" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is Aquinas's concept of natural law?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A set of laws revealed only through Scripture", "short": "Laws revealed only through Scripture" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The canon law governing appointment of bishops", "short": "Canon law on appointing bishops" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A moral order built into creation, knowable by reason apart from revelation", "short": "Moral order knowable by reason" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The rejection of reason wherever it meets faith", "short": "Rejecting reason where faith speaks" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Natural law is Aquinas's idea that a moral order is embedded in creation and accessible to human reason without recourse to Scripture, while revealed truths go beyond but never contradict reason.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "9306fbl4qjs1" }, { "id": "ot-schol-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "five-ways", "aquinas" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What are Aquinas's 'Five Ways'?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Five vows taken by Franciscan friars", "short": "Five vows of Franciscan friars" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five equal patriarchs of the Eastern church", "short": "Five patriarchs of the East" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five sacraments of the medieval church", "short": "Five sacraments of the church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five rational arguments for the existence of God", "short": "Five arguments that God exists" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Five Ways are Aquinas's five rational arguments for God's existence, illustrating his claim that reason can reach many truths about God. The five patriarchs belong to the Eastern schism debate.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "16xu9hkabhiq6" }, { "id": "ot-schol-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "aristotle", "scholasticism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Whose logic did Scholastic theologians like Aquinas apply to Christian theology?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Plato" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Aristotle" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Socrates" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Scholasticism applied rigorous Aristotelian logic to theology; Aquinas's Summa Theologica synthesized Christian doctrine with Aristotle's philosophy in particular.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7el83i1tc6jta" }, { "id": "ot-francis-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "franciscans", "friars-minor" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Franciscan Order founded by Francis of Assisi was also known by what name?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Friars Minor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Society of Jesus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Order of Preachers" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Order of Saint Benedict" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Francis's order was formally the Friars Minor — 'lesser brothers.' The Dominicans were a separate order (Aquinas's); Benedictines and Jesuits arose in different eras.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "4v3p07f2lr5v" }, { "id": "ot-francis-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "francis", "poverty" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did Francis of Assisi live out his conversion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Led knights on a crusade to reclaim Jerusalem", "short": "Led a crusade to reclaim Jerusalem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rose through the church hierarchy to become a bishop", "short": "Climbed church ranks to become bishop" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Retreated to a rural monastery to farm the land", "short": "Retreated to a monastery to farm" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Abandoned his wealth to care for lepers and preach in the streets", "short": "Gave up wealth to serve lepers" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Francis took the gospel command to sell all and give to the poor literally: he gave up his inheritance, cared for lepers, and preached repentance in the open air, unlike rural monastic orders.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "pf0wk38k2nxr" }, { "id": "ot-francis-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "francis", "biography" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What was Francis of Assisi's background before his conversion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The son of a wealthy cloth merchant", "short": "Son of a wealthy cloth merchant" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A patriarch of the Eastern church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "An Italian Dominican professor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A Kurdish military commander" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Francis was the son of a wealthy Italian cloth merchant; he stripped off his fine clothes before the Bishop of Assisi to renounce that inheritance. Aquinas, by contrast, was the Dominican professor.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "gmkqzt9qjs5j" }, { "id": "ot-francis-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "franciscans", "poverty" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "On what vow was the Franciscan Order distinctively built?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Scholarly mastery of Aristotle" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Corporate as well as individual poverty", "short": "Corporate and personal poverty" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lifelong silence and seclusion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Armed defense of the Holy Land" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Friars Minor took a vow of corporate as well as individual poverty — they owned nothing and begged their food, letting them reach the growing cities that landed monastic orders could not.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1pesy4al98csg" }, { "id": "ot-francis-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pope-francis", "legacy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which modern pope took his name in explicit honor of Francis of Assisi?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Urban II" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Francis, in 2013" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Leo III" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Gregory VII" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "In 2013 Pope Francis chose his papal name to honor the saint's humility and care for the poor. Gregory VII, Urban II, and Leo III were all medieval popes.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "14ge0zm8u8lby" }, { "id": "ot-crisis-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "crusades", "count" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many major Crusades were launched between 1095 and 1291?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "12" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "3" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "5" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "8" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Eight major Crusades were launched between 1095 and 1291, varying widely in scope and outcome. The era closed with the fall of Acre in 1291.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "fcloh31a6vq5z" }, { "id": "ot-crisis-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "black-death", "mortality" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Roughly what share of Europe's population did the Black Death kill?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "One-tenth to one-fifth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Two-thirds to three-quarters" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One-third to one-half" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nearly everyone" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Black Death (1347–1353) killed an estimated one-third to one-half of Europe's population, a scale that defied the church's frameworks of sin and punishment.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "twums1thrj3t" }, { "id": "ot-crisis-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "fourth-crusade", "constantinople" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Fourth Crusade was notoriously diverted to sack which Christian city?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Acre" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Fourth Crusade (1202–04) was diverted to sack Constantinople — the Christian city it was meant to protect — deepening the Catholic–Orthodox rift for generations.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "jg5d44x73aiy" }, { "id": "ot-crisis-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "saladin", "crusades" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Muslim commander defeated the Crusaders and retook Jerusalem in 1187?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Saladin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nur ad-Din Zangi" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Shirkuh" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baibars" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "By 1187 the Kurdish Muslim commander Saladin defeated the Crusader army at Hattin and retook Jerusalem. Nur ad-Din and Shirkuh were his predecessor and uncle, both dead before 1187; Baibars was a Mamluk sultan who fought Crusaders decades later.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "tn6q8km0tawe" }, { "id": "ot-luther-protest-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "indulgence", "luther" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What was an indulgence, the abuse that triggered Luther's protest?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A monastic vow of poverty taken by an Augustinian monk", "short": "A monk's lifelong vow of poverty" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A formal decree excommunicating a heretic from the church", "short": "A decree excommunicating a heretic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A church certificate claiming to remit time owed in purgatory", "short": "A certificate remitting purgatory time" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A papal license permitting a priest to marry", "short": "A papal license for priests to marry" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "An indulgence was a certificate claiming to remit time owed in purgatory. Their sale by figures like Tetzel made salvation sound transactional, which sparked Luther's protest.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "yozb7k13tiqg2" }, { "id": "ot-luther-protest-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "tetzel", "indulgence" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which friar ran the indulgence sales campaign near Wittenberg that provoked Luther?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Menno Simons" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Johann Gutenberg" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Johann Tetzel" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Dominican friar Johann Tetzel ran the indulgence campaign, marketing it with the jingle about the coin in the coffer. Loyola founded the Jesuits and Gutenberg built the press.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "d2vsu78wqn5l" }, { "id": "ot-luther-protest-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "ninety-five-theses", "date" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year did Luther circulate his Ninety-Five Theses?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "1517" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1563" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1540" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1521" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Luther circulated the Ninety-Five Theses on October 31, 1517. He was excommunicated in 1521, the Jesuits were founded in 1540, and Trent closed in 1563.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1anavsat3nxmq" }, { "id": "ot-luther-protest-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "diet-of-worms", "here-i-stand" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Refusing to recant at the Diet of Worms, Luther reportedly declared: 'Here I ___. I can do no other.'" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "believe" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "kneel" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "stand" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "repent" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Luther's famous defiance at the Diet of Worms was 'Here I stand. I can do no other.' — a refusal to recant before Emperor Charles V.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "hq2cai17zn1go" }, { "id": "ot-luther-protest-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "leo-x", "excommunication" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who excommunicated Luther in 1521 after he refused to recant?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Ulrich Zwingli" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Leo X" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Charles V" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Johann Tetzel" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther in 1521. Charles V was the emperor who summoned him to the Diet of Worms but did not excommunicate him; that was the pope's act.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1vpdmlg9strgk" }, { "id": "ot-solas-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sola-scriptura", "authority" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does Sola Scriptura affirm about religious authority?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Salvation is received through faith rather than works", "short": "Salvation through faith not works" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Every believer shares equally in a common priesthood", "short": "All believers share one priesthood" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Bible, not church tradition, is the supreme authority for doctrine", "short": "Scripture outranks church tradition" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "God's grace is the sole cause of a person's salvation", "short": "Grace alone causes salvation" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Sola Scriptura ('Scripture alone') holds the Bible, not papal tradition, is the supreme doctrinal authority. The other options describe Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, and the priesthood of all believers.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1p505xeygweic" }, { "id": "ot-solas-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sola-fide", "salvation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "According to Sola Fide, how is salvation received?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Through obedience to the pope and church tradition", "short": "Through obedience to the pope" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Through faith alone in Christ, as a free gift of grace", "short": "Through faith alone in Christ" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "By purchasing an indulgence to shorten purgatory", "short": "By purchasing a papal indulgence" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "By performing the seven sacraments faithfully", "short": "By performing seven sacraments" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Sola Fide ('faith alone') teaches salvation is received through faith, not earned by works or sacraments — the very transactional view Luther rejected in the indulgence trade.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1x20vtxzwb10d" }, { "id": "ot-solas-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "priesthood-of-believers" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does Luther's 'priesthood of all believers' assert?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Only ordained priests may interpret Scripture correctly", "short": "Only priests may interpret Scripture" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Salvation requires the mediation of the sacraments", "short": "Salvation requires the sacraments" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The pope alone holds supreme spiritual authority", "short": "The pope alone holds authority" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "No ordained mediator stands between the Christian and God", "short": "No mediator needed before God" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The priesthood of all believers holds that no ordained mediator stands between the Christian and God, pairing with the solas to reject clerical monopoly on grace and interpretation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "j4mj3h1q980qv" }, { "id": "ot-solas-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sola-fide", "solas" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of Luther's principles teaches that salvation is received by faith, not earned by works?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Priesthood of all believers" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sola Gratia" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sola Fide" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sola Scriptura" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Sola Fide ('faith alone') names the faith-not-works principle. Sola Scriptura concerns authority and Sola Gratia stresses grace as the cause of salvation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11te5862vhqbu" }, { "id": "ot-supper-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "lords-supper", "luther" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did Luther understand Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The bread and wine are only a symbolic memorial", "short": "Only a symbolic memorial meal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The elements are transformed into a wholly new substance", "short": "Transformed into a new substance" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Christ is really, physically present in the bread and wine", "short": "Really present in bread and wine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The supper is unnecessary and should be abolished", "short": "The supper should be wholly abolished" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Luther insisted Christ is really, physically present in the bread and wine. Zwingli read the elements as symbolic; the wholesale change of substance is the Catholic view.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1xn8g5k1p1boko" }, { "id": "ot-supper-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "lords-supper", "zwingli" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did Zwingli interpret the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "As the literal physical body and blood of Christ", "short": "As the literal body and blood" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As transformed into a new substance by the priest", "short": "As transformed by the priest" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a purely symbolic memorial of Christ", "short": "As a purely symbolic memorial" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a sacrifice repeated at every Mass", "short": "As a sacrifice at every Mass" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Zwingli read the elements as a purely symbolic memorial — bread and wine that represent Christ but do not carry his physical presence, the opposite of Luther's real-presence view.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1kb0mn719jaynv" }, { "id": "ot-supper-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "marburg-colloquy", "1529" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At which 1529 meeting did Luther and Zwingli fail to reconcile on the Lord's Supper?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Diet of Worms" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Marburg Colloquy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Trent" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "At the Marburg Colloquy of 1529 the two men agreed on fourteen points but split permanently on the fifteenth — Christ's presence in the Supper.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "19qaw3bui2qg5" }, { "id": "ot-supper-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "lords-supper", "split" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The key doctrinal break between Luther and Zwingli centered on which issue?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The nature of the Lord's Supper" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The practice of believer's baptism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The authority of the Latin Vulgate" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The doctrine of predestination" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Their decisive split was over the Lord's Supper — real presence versus symbolic memorial. Predestination and baptism were Calvinist and Anabaptist concerns, not the Luther-Zwingli break.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "lswh4c1ykr972" }, { "id": "ot-supper-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "zwingli", "not-question" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement about Zwingli's Reformation is NOT true?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "He read the Lord's Supper as a symbolic memorial", "short": "Read the Supper as a memorial" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He stripped churches of art, statues, and instrumental music", "short": "Stripped churches of art and music" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He held that Christ is physically present in the bread and wine", "short": "Christ is physically present in bread" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He ran a parallel Reformation in Zurich, Switzerland", "short": "Ran a parallel Reformation in Zurich" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The false statement is physical presence — that was Luther's view. Zwingli led the Zurich Reformation, stripped churches of art and music, and read the Supper as symbolic.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ekjoep4o33y" }, { "id": "ot-reformed-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "predestination", "calvin" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does Calvin's doctrine of predestination teach?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptism is given only to those old enough to profess faith", "short": "Baptism only for those professing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Salvation can be earned through faithful good works", "short": "Salvation earned through good works" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "God eternally elects some to salvation by his own sovereign choice", "short": "God elects some by sovereign choice" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Human nature is wholly corrupted by sin with no inclination toward God", "short": "Human nature wholly corrupted by sin" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Predestination holds that God eternally elects some to salvation by divine choice, not by foreseen merit. The corruption of nature is total depravity, a separate Calvinist doctrine.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mdxxhj1tt3wv7" }, { "id": "ot-reformed-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "total-depravity", "calvin" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "According to total depravity, what is the condition of human nature?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Corrupted only in part, with the will still free to seek God", "short": "Partly corrupted, will free to seek God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Perfectible through the sacraments of the church", "short": "Perfectible through the sacraments" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wholly corrupted by sin, with no natural inclination toward God", "short": "Wholly corrupted, no inclination to God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Basically good but in need of moral guidance", "short": "Basically good, needs moral guidance" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Total depravity, systematized by Calvin, teaches human nature is wholly corrupted by sin with no natural inclination toward God — hence salvation depends entirely on divine election.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1mhxiq41npmm2c" }, { "id": "ot-reformed-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "believers-baptism", "anabaptist" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is believer's baptism, the Anabaptist hallmark?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptism given only to those old enough to profess faith for themselves", "short": "Baptism only for those professing faith" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptism performed only by an ordained bishop", "short": "Baptism only by an ordained bishop" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A second baptism required before ordination to ministry", "short": "A second baptism before ordination" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptism of infants shortly after birth into a state church", "short": "Infant baptism into a state church" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Believer's baptism restricts baptism to those old enough to profess faith personally, rejecting infant baptism. The Anabaptists re-baptized adults on a personal profession of faith.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "82habl10b700d" }, { "id": "ot-reformed-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "anabaptist", "zurich" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which group emerged in Zurich in 1525 and practiced believer's baptism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Anabaptists" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Huguenots" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Puritans" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Jesuits" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Anabaptists ('re-baptizers') emerged in Zurich in 1525 under Grebel and Manz. The Huguenots and Puritans were Reformed/Calvinist, and the Jesuits were a Catholic order.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "w3ubvb1s54v9d" }, { "id": "ot-reformed-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "believers-baptism", "anabaptist" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Anabaptists practiced believer's baptism because they rejected which established practice?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Calvinist Predestination" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Catholic Transubstantiation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Infant baptism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The sale of indulgences" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Anabaptists judged infant baptism unscriptural and baptized only adults who could profess faith — believer's baptism. Predestination and transubstantiation were doctrinal disputes, not the practice they rejected.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "2anawfspfajd" }, { "id": "ot-counter-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "trent", "sacraments" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many sacraments did the Council of Trent reaffirm against Protestant reformers?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Seven sacraments" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Twelve sacraments" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Three sacraments" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Two sacraments" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Trent reaffirmed seven sacraments, deliberately rejecting the two that Luther retained. This was part of its point-by-point doctrinal reply to Protestantism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "la3uow1umkw5q" }, { "id": "ot-counter-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "transubstantiation", "eucharist" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What term did Trent use for the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Consubstantiation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Symbolic memorial" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Predestination" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Trent affirmed the real presence under the term transubstantiation. Consubstantiation is associated with Lutheran thought, and the symbolic memorial was Zwingli's view.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "17qfua4lsw9qo" }, { "id": "ot-counter-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "jesuits", "loyola" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1540?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola", "short": "Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Johann Tetzel" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Calvin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Knox" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Spanish ex-soldier Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuits in 1540. They became a chief engine of the Counter-Reformation through education and overseas mission.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ggpkqgja73la" }, { "id": "ot-mission-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sublimis-deus", "indigenous-rights" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In the 1537 bull Sublimis Deus, Pope Paul III declared that indigenous Americans were which of the following?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Property of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns", "short": "Property of the Spanish crown" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rational human beings with rights to liberty and property", "short": "A rational people with rights" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Subjects rightly bound to labor under the encomienda", "short": "Bound to labor under encomienda" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Souls to be converted but with no legal rights", "short": "Souls with no legal rights" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Sublimis Deus affirmed the indigenous peoples as rational human beings with the right to liberty and property, who must not be enslaved — directly contradicting the theology used to justify conquest.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "18fjqztxbru7p" }, { "id": "ot-mission-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sublimis-deus", "paul-iii" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which pope issued the papal bull Sublimis Deus?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Alexander VI" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Paul III" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Julius II" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Leo X" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Pope Paul III issued Sublimis Deus in 1537. Alexander VI, Julius II, and Leo X were earlier Renaissance popes not associated with this decree on indigenous dignity.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1yo34b316557wf" }, { "id": "ot-mission-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "mission", "colonialism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which two colonial powers carried Catholicism to Latin America and the Philippines after the Reformation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Italy and Germany" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "England and the Netherlands" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Spain and Portugal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "France and Belgium" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Spain and Portugal spread Catholicism to Latin America, the Philippines, and parts of Africa, often hand in hand with conquest. Protestant powers like England and the Netherlands came later and elsewhere.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ym2v91gdddm5" }, { "id": "ot-mission-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sublimis-deus", "encomienda" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Despite Sublimis Deus, why did forced indigenous labor continue for generations?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The bull explicitly authorized the encomienda system", "short": "The bull authorized encomienda" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Protestant powers overruled the papal decree", "short": "Protestant powers overruled it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The bull was frequently ignored and the Vatican could not enforce it", "short": "It was ignored and unenforceable" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope Paul III secretly revoked the bull", "short": "Pope Paul III secretly revoked it" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The decree was frequently ignored on the ground; Spain's encomienda system of forced labor continued because the Vatican lacked the coercive power to enforce its bull across an ocean.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1v9zvu7g3zny3" }, { "id": "ot-awaken-match-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "first-awakening", "edwards", "whitefield" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Great Awakening (1730s–40s) is most associated with which preachers?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "William Seymour and Charles Parham" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Wesley and George Fox" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Charles Finney and Dwight Moody" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The First Great Awakening spread through Jonathan Edwards's preaching and the itinerant English evangelist George Whitefield. Finney belongs to the Second, and Seymour/Parham to Pentecostalism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "td9egz1x6xllf" }, { "id": "ot-awaken-match-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "second-awakening", "camp-meetings" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Outdoor camp meetings and horseback circuit riders were hallmarks of which revival?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Great Awakening" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Azusa Street revival" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Third Great Awakening" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Second Great Awakening" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Second Great Awakening of the early 1800s spread across the frontier through camp meetings and traveling circuit riders on horseback.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11k5arwzbbkp8" }, { "id": "ot-awaken-match-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "third-awakening", "holiness" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Third Great Awakening (1880s–1900s) gave rise to which movement?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The abolitionist movement" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Oxford Movement" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Holiness movement" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The temperance movement" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Third Great Awakening produced the Holiness movement, emphasizing sanctification. Abolitionism and temperance drew from the Second Great Awakening; the Oxford Movement was English Anglican.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ejj1l34zn0u1" }, { "id": "ot-awaken-match-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "first-awakening", "chronology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "During which decades did the First Great Awakening take place?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "1730s–1740s" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "early 1800s" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1880s–1900s" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1660s–1670s" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The First Great Awakening swept the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s. The Second came in the early 1800s and the Third in the 1880s–1900s.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "19fktoj1jus1rh" }, { "id": "ot-awaken-match-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "awakenings", "matching" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which pairing of an awakening with its leader is INCORRECT?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Second Great Awakening paired with Charles Finney" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Third Great Awakening paired with Jonathan Edwards" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "First Great Awakening paired with George Whitefield" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "First Great Awakening paired with Jonathan Edwards" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Jonathan Edwards led the First Great Awakening, not the Third — which produced the Holiness movement. Whitefield (First) and Finney (Second) are correctly matched.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ri9698fy88dg" }, { "id": "ot-awakedet-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "edwards", "sermon" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is the title of Jonathan Edwards's most famous First Great Awakening sermon?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Freedom of a Christian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A Model of Christian Charity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Bondage of the Will" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Edwards preached 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.' 'A Model of Christian Charity' was Winthrop; the other two are works by Luther.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ox9y3j16v6skd" }, { "id": "ot-awakedet-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "holiness", "pentecostalism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Holiness movement's emphasis on direct, experiential encounter with the Spirit became the seedbed of what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Social Gospel" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Fundamentalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Oxford Movement" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Holiness emphasis on experiential encounter with the Spirit prepared the soil for Pentecostalism, which erupted at Azusa Street in 1906.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mg1sgk609y8m" }, { "id": "ot-awakedet-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "holiness", "sanctification" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Holiness movement emphasized sanctification, which it understood as what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The moment of initial conversion to Christ", "short": "The moment of a first conversion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The baptism of infants into the church", "short": "Baptism of infants in church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A deeper work of the Spirit purifying the believer after conversion", "short": "Spirit purifying the believer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Speaking in tongues as the proof of salvation", "short": "Tongues as proof of salvation" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Sanctification meant a deeper work of the Holy Spirit purifying the believer after conversion, building on Wesley's doctrine of 'entire sanctification.'", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "3q5kmkrr2wdg" }, { "id": "ot-awakedet-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "finney", "new-measures" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How did Charles Finney treat revival, unlike earlier preachers?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "As a sovereign act of God beyond all human planning", "short": "A sovereign act of God alone" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a private experience unsuited to public meetings", "short": "A private non-public experience" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a deliberate technique that could be applied to produce conversions", "short": "A technique to produce conversions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a ritual reserved for ordained clergy", "short": "A ritual for ordained clergy" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Finney treated revival not as a sovereign act of God but as a deliberate technique — 'new measures' applied systematically to produce conversions.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ukwlgp1fe8rjt" }, { "id": "ot-pentbirth-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "azusa-street", "pentecostalism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Where did the 1906 revival that launched modern Pentecostalism take place?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethel Bible School, Topeka" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Cane Ridge, Kentucky" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Northampton, Massachusetts" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The revival broke out at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. Topeka is where Parham first documented tongues in 1901; the others belong to earlier revivals.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7g2s6t6vzibv" }, { "id": "ot-pentbirth-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "azusa-street", "chronology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year did the Azusa Street revival begin?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "1901" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1886" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1919" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1906" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Azusa Street revival began in 1906. Tongues-speaking was first documented at Parham's school in 1901, but the launching point of modern Pentecostalism was 1906.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "fo8rk51l1pmqz" }, { "id": "ot-pentbirth-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "azusa-street", "interracial" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What made the Azusa Street revival socially striking in 1906?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It was formally endorsed by the U.S. government", "short": "Formally endorsed by the government" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Black, white, Latino, and Asian worshippers prayed together amid legal segregation", "short": "Multiracial worship amid segregation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It legally abolished denominational differences", "short": "Legally abolished all denominational lines" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was the first revival led entirely by women", "short": "The first revival led by women" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Just eleven years after Plessy v. Ferguson, the interracial worship at Azusa Street — Black, white, Latino, and Asian together — was a startling social fact under strict legal segregation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "vx71yu363mte" }, { "id": "ot-pentbirth-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecostalism", "global-south" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Where is the center of gravity of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity today?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Global South" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "the Middle East" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "North America" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Western Europe" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Pentecostalism's center of gravity is emphatically the Global South — sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia — not Europe or North America.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "xffsqo120m8cs" }, { "id": "ot-gloss-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "glossolalia", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the term glossolalia refer to?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Anointing the sick with oil" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Speaking in tongues" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Washing one another's feet" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Fasting during Lent" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Glossolalia is 'speaking in tongues' — utterance of unintelligible or unknown speech understood as a gift of the Holy Spirit, the signature practice of Pentecostalism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1nkbe9zpw7ub" }, { "id": "ot-gloss-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "glossolalia", "pentecost" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Participants interpreted speaking in tongues as a re-enactment of which biblical event?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The first Pentecost in the Acts of the Apostles", "short": "The first Christian Pentecost" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Transfiguration of Jesus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The baptism of Jesus in the Jordan", "short": "The baptism of Jesus in Jordan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Last Supper", "short": "The Last Supper with disciples" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Participants saw tongues as re-enacting the first Pentecost in Acts, when the Holy Spirit fell on Jesus' followers and they 'spoke in other tongues.'", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1pzfkad1x5pazh" }, { "id": "ot-gloss-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "baptism-holy-spirit", "pentecostalism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Pentecostal teaching, the baptism of the Holy Spirit is understood as what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A second experience after conversion, often marked by tongues", "short": "A later experience with tongues" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The final judgment at the end of time", "short": "The final judgment at time's end" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A rite performed only by bishops" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The water baptism that begins conversion", "short": "The water baptism at conversion" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Pentecostals teach a baptism of the Holy Spirit as a second experience after conversion, often marked by tongues, healing, and prophecy.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "v1midy13pdeqo" }, { "id": "ot-gloss-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "glossolalia", "spiritual-gifts" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostals teach a baptism of the Holy Spirit as a second experience after conversion. Besides speaking in tongues, which two signs are said to mark it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Anointing and the laying on of hands" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Confession and absolution" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Fasting and footwashing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Healing and prophecy" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Pentecostals describe the baptism of the Holy Spirit as often marked by tongues, healing and prophecy. The other options are Christian practices rather than signs of Spirit baptism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1xbfsbz1myrad1" }, { "id": "ot-gloss-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "glossolalia", "pentecostalism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Glossolalia is the signature practice of which movement?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Jansenism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Puritanism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheranism" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is the signature practice of Pentecostalism, the movement born at Azusa Street in 1906.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "5fuljz111c0bd" }, { "id": "ot-trinity-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "trinity", "doctrine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the doctrine of the Trinity hold about God?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "One God existing as three co-equal, co-eternal persons", "short": "One God in three co-equal persons" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Three separate gods sharing a common purpose", "short": "Three separate gods with one purpose" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One God appearing in three successive modes over time", "short": "One God in three successive modes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One supreme God with two lesser created spirits", "short": "One God plus two lesser spirits" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Trinity holds that the one God exists as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three separate gods is Tritheism; successive modes is Modalism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1m5zqk39jodxb" }, { "id": "ot-trinity-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "trinity", "heresy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which term names the heresy that treats Father, Son, and Spirit as three separate gods?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Homoousios" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Modalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Tritheism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Miaphysitism" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Tritheism is the error of treating the three persons as three separate gods. Modalism collapses them into masks; homoousios is the orthodox term for shared substance.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1f1h3ho8sito6" }, { "id": "ot-trinity-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "trinity", "heresy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does Modalism claim about the one God?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "He merely appears in three successive modes or masks", "short": "God merely appears in three modes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Son is a created being lesser than the Father", "short": "The Son is a lesser created being" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He is three genuinely separate divine beings", "short": "God is three separate divine beings" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He blends a divine and a human nature in Christ", "short": "God blends divine and human natures" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Modalism collapses the distinction of persons, saying God only appears in successive modes rather than existing as three distinct persons. Three separate beings is Tritheism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "12elfvo6whs9k" }, { "id": "ot-trinity-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "trinity", "heresy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement is NOT part of Trinitarian orthodoxy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The three persons are co-eternal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The three persons are three separate gods", "short": "The three persons are separate gods" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The three persons are co-equal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit", "short": "The one God is Father Son and Spirit" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Treating the persons as separate gods is the heresy of Tritheism, which the councils rejected. Co-equal, co-eternal, and one God in three persons are all orthodox.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1u1tlo518idde9" }, { "id": "ot-trinity-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea", "homoousios" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Greek word homoousios (\"same substance\"), central at Nicaea in 325 CE, affirmed what about the Son?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "He was adopted as God's Son at his baptism", "short": "Adopted as God's Son at baptism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He appears as one of God's temporary successive modes", "short": "One of God's successive modes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He fully shares the divine nature, not a lesser created being", "short": "Fully shares the divine nature" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He is a separate god standing alongside the Father", "short": "A separate god beside the Father" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Homoousios means the Son is of the same substance as the Father, fully sharing the divine nature rather than being a lesser being created by the Father.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1cxacjd1rz8uk1" }, { "id": "ot-incarnation-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "incarnation", "christology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the doctrine of the Incarnation claim about Jesus?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "God took on human flesh; Jesus is fully God and fully human", "short": "Jesus is fully God and fully human" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jesus was fully human and later adopted as God's Son", "short": "Jesus was human then adopted by God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jesus was part God and part human, a blend of the two", "short": "Jesus was part God and part human" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jesus was fully divine and only appeared to be human", "short": "Jesus only appeared to be human" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Incarnation holds God took on flesh in Jesus, who is fully God and fully human — not partly each, and not alternating between the two.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1rv7cfz1lxd5tl" }, { "id": "ot-incarnation-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "chalcedon", "incarnation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the Chalcedonian Definition explicitly reject about Christ's two natures?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "That Christ is one person", "short": "That Christ is one single person" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That Christ has a fully divine nature" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Blending them into a single mixed nature", "short": "That the two natures blend into one" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That Christ has a fully human nature" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Chalcedon held the two natures together without confusion, mixture, separation, or division — so blending them into one mixed nature is rejected, while one person with both full natures is affirmed.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "e0uze4gtj0j0" }, { "id": "ot-incarnation-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "incarnation", "scripture" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which phrase from the Gospel of John frames the Incarnation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "\"the Word became flesh and dwelt among us\"", "short": "The Word became flesh among us" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "\"In the beginning was the Word\"", "short": "In the beginning was the Word" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "\"God so loved the world\"", "short": "God so loved the world" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "\"the Word was with God\"", "short": "The Word was with God" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "John 1:14 frames the Incarnation: the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The other phrases are from John 1:1 and John 3:16 and do not describe the Word taking on flesh.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1gokklg112iuj2" }, { "id": "ot-incarnation-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "incarnation", "oriental-orthodox" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Non-Chalcedonian churches such as the Coptic and Armenian Orthodox hold which position on Christ's nature?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Miaphysitism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Tritheism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Modalism" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Oriental Orthodox (Coptic, Armenian) hold Miaphysitism, a subtly different position from Chalcedon. Modalism and Tritheism are Trinitarian heresies; transubstantiation is a Eucharistic view.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1bpvqqty8dl9p" }, { "id": "ot-sin-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "original-sin", "augustine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the doctrine of Original Sin teach?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A grave sin so serious it can never be forgiven", "short": "A grave and unforgivable sin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The temptation of Christ in the wilderness", "short": "Christ's temptation in the desert" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The first sin each individual personally commits in life", "short": "The first sin a person commits" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Adam's first disobedience corrupted human nature, passed to all humanity", "short": "Adam's sin passed to all humanity" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Following Augustine, Original Sin holds that Adam's disobedience corrupted human nature and passed a fallen condition to all subsequent humanity — not a personal first sin or an unforgivable act.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "6dxdcg1dbyvlu" }, { "id": "ot-sin-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "redemption", "salvation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How do Redemption and Salvation differ?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Redemption is Christ's work on the cross; salvation applies it to the individual", "short": "Redemption = the cross; salvation applies it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Redemption is an Orthodox term and salvation a Catholic one", "short": "Redemption is Orthodox; salvation Catholic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Salvation is Christ's work on the cross; redemption applies it to the individual", "short": "Salvation = the cross; redemption applies it" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Both refer only to the forgiveness of an individual's personal sins", "short": "Both mean only forgiving personal sins" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Redemption names Christ's atoning work on the cross that buys back humanity; salvation is that work applied to the individual as a restored relationship with God.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1e0423qo485ju" }, { "id": "ot-sin-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "redemption", "atonement" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Christian theology, Redemption names what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The individual's restored right relationship with God", "short": "A restored relationship with God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Christ's atoning work \"buying back\" humanity from bondage to sin and death", "short": "Christ buying humanity from sin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The corrupted nature inherited from Adam", "short": "The corrupt nature from Adam" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A physical rite that conveys spiritual grace", "short": "A rite conveying spiritual grace" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Redemption is the mechanism — Christ's cross buying humanity back from sin and death. The restored relationship is salvation; the inherited corruption is Original Sin.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11gdrle1dc8sgc" }, { "id": "ot-sin-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "original-sin", "orthodoxy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How does Eastern Orthodoxy's traditional view of the fall differ from Augustine's?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It emphasizes inherited mortality more than inherited guilt", "short": "It stresses mortality more than guilt" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It rejects the idea that humanity needs a savior", "short": "It denies humanity needs a savior" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It teaches humans can fully repair their nature by willpower", "short": "Humans can repair their own nature" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It denies that the fall of Adam and Eve happened at all", "short": "It denies the fall ever happened" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Eastern Orthodoxy agrees the fall was serious but traditionally stresses inherited mortality over inherited guilt, unlike Augustine's Western framework.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "5twxjr1sdk361" }, { "id": "ot-savtrad-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "salvation", "catholic" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which tradition teaches salvation involves baptism, faith, cooperation with grace, and the sacraments, and can be lost through unrepented mortal sin?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Calvinist" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Catholic" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Catholic view ties salvation to baptism, ongoing faith, cooperation with grace, and the sacraments, and holds it can be lost by mortal sin. Lutherans and Calvinists insist on grace and faith alone.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1yuyjgs9yp6ms" }, { "id": "ot-savtrad-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "salvation", "comparison" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which belief about salvation would a Catholic affirm but a Lutheran or Calvinist reject?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "That humanity is fallen and needs a savior", "short": "Humanity is fallen and needs saving" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That salvation ultimately rests on God's grace", "short": "Salvation rests on God's grace" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That Christ's death on the cross redeems humanity", "short": "Christ's death on the cross redeems" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That cooperation with grace and the sacraments contribute to salvation", "short": "Sacraments and effort aid salvation" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Catholics hold cooperation with grace and the sacraments contribute to salvation; Lutherans and Calvinists reject any human contribution (Sola Gratia, Sola Fide). The other three are shared Christian beliefs.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1nrgajp1fh1s2t" }, { "id": "ot-savtrad-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "salvation", "arminian" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Arminian and Wesleyan view of grace holds what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Grace is irresistible and cannot be refused once given", "short": "Grace is irresistible once given" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Grace is unnecessary because good works alone save", "short": "Grace is unnecessary for salvation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Grace is offered universally but can be freely resisted", "short": "Grace is universal but resistible" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Grace reaches people only through the seven sacraments", "short": "Grace comes only through sacraments" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Arminians and Wesleyans hold that God's grace is genuinely universal but can be freely resisted, preserving human choice.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1bhel7mdfw7zw" }, { "id": "ot-savtrad-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "salvation", "pentecostal" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What distinctive teaching do Pentecostals typically add to a Protestant framework?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A \"second blessing\" of Spirit baptism, often shown by speaking in tongues", "short": "Spirit baptism shown by tongues" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That only two sacraments should ever be recognized", "short": "Only two sacraments are recognized" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That bread and wine become Christ's literal body and blood", "short": "Bread and wine become Christ's body" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "That salvation is earned by good works alone", "short": "Salvation is earned by good works" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Pentecostals affirm a Protestant framework but add a post-conversion \"second blessing\" — a baptism of the Holy Spirit, often evidenced by speaking in tongues.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "eop785v3gx4p" }, { "id": "ot-savtrad-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "salvation", "comparison" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which tradition insists that good works are the fruit of salvation, not its cause or contribution?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Eastern Orthodox", "short": "Eastern Orthodox Christians" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutherans and Calvinists", "short": "The Lutherans and Calvinists" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Arminians and Wesleyans", "short": "Arminian and Wesleyan churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Catholics", "short": "Roman Catholic Christians" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Lutherans and Calvinists hold Sola Gratia and Sola Fide, so works are the fruit of salvation. Catholics see cooperation with grace as contributing; Arminians stress resistible grace.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1xaofq2c29420" }, { "id": "ot-sac-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sacrament", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What is a sacrament?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "An ordained office held within the church", "short": "An ordained office in the church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A physical rite believed to convey spiritual grace", "short": "A rite conveying spiritual grace" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A creed recited by the congregation in worship", "short": "A creed recited in worship" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A symbolic story that recalls a Bible event", "short": "A story recalling a Bible event" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "A sacrament is a physical rite — water, bread, wine, oil — believed to convey spiritual grace, such as Baptism or the Eucharist.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7gfeid8mankz" }, { "id": "ot-sac-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sacrament", "numeric" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many sacraments do the Catholic and Orthodox churches recognize?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Two" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Seven" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Twelve" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Three" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Catholic and Orthodox churches recognize seven sacraments: Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Confession, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, and Holy Orders. Most Protestants keep only two.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1wlko2w10f6m80" }, { "id": "ot-sac-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "eucharist", "transubstantiation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Catholic transubstantiation teaches what about the Eucharist?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Bread and wine become Christ's actual body and blood, though appearances stay the same", "short": "Bread becomes the body of Christ" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The bread and wine are a purely symbolic remembrance", "short": "A purely symbolic Christian rite" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Christ is present alongside the unchanged bread and wine", "short": "Present alongside unchanged bread" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Christ is spiritually present only to those who receive in faith", "short": "Spiritually present to the faithful" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Transubstantiation holds the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ while their appearances remain unchanged. Spiritual presence is Calvinist; memorial is Zwinglian; presence alongside is Lutheran.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "e61iu11diiz2h" }, { "id": "ot-sac-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "eucharist", "memorial" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which view holds the Eucharist is purely memorial — a remembrance and nothing more?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutherans", "short": "The Lutheran churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman Catholics", "short": "The Roman Catholic Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptists and many evangelicals", "short": "Baptists and evangelicals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Reformed churches", "short": "The Reformed churches" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Baptists and many evangelicals hold the purely memorial (Zwinglian) view: the rite is a remembrance, with no real presence. The other three teach some form of Christ's presence.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "j4r67m1vhe8wc" }, { "id": "ot-catholic-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "catholic", "infallibility" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the Catholic teaching of 'ex cathedra' infallibility hold?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Church councils are infallible only when the Pope is absent", "short": "Councils are infallible without the Pope" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Pope's formal doctrinal pronouncements are preserved from error", "short": "Formal papal rulings are inerrant" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Every statement the Pope makes on any subject is free from error", "short": "Any papal statement is error-free" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The College of Cardinals cannot err when electing a new Pope", "short": "Cardinals cannot err electing a Pope" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Ex cathedra infallibility applies only to the Pope's formal doctrinal pronouncements made 'from the chair' of Peter — not to his everyday statements or to cardinal elections.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1oaxqzr85yhcd" }, { "id": "ot-catholic-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "catholic", "size" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Roughly how many members does the Roman Catholic Church have, making it the largest Christian body?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "1.3 billion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "644 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "900 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "270 million" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Catholic Church has about 1.3 billion members. 270 million is Orthodoxy, 900 million is Protestantism, and 644 million is the Pentecostal/Charismatic wing.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1v83b4jzxtvq3" }, { "id": "ot-catholic-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "catholic", "sacred-tradition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Catholic doctrine draws from Sacred Scripture together with what second source?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Sacred Tradition, the teaching handed down from the apostles", "short": "Sacred Tradition from the apostles" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The private revelations of individual saints", "short": "Private revelations of individual saints" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The rulings of secular monarchs" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Scripture alone, with no other source", "short": "Scripture alone with no Tradition" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Catholicism treats Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition together as the source of doctrine — rejecting the Protestant principle of Scripture alone.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11dpcsl1b10hy9" }, { "id": "ot-catholic-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "catholic", "papacy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement about the Roman Catholic Church is NOT true?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It rejects any single universal bishop with binding authority", "short": "The Church denies a universal head" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It is the largest single religious organization on Earth", "short": "Largest religious body on Earth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It is led by the Pope, understood as the successor of Peter", "short": "Led by the Pope as Peter's heir" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It draws doctrine from both Scripture and Sacred Tradition", "short": "It draws on Scripture and Tradition" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Rejecting a single universal bishop describes Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Catholicism is defined by centralized papal authority under the Pope.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "x9g5np1p4rgg7" }, { "id": "ot-catholic-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "catholic", "papacy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Catholic teaching, the Pope is understood as the successor of which apostle?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "James" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Andrew" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Catholics understand the Pope as the successor of Peter, the first apostle — a claim rooted in Matthew 16:18.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "v1xlqxufyl8d" }, { "id": "ot-orthodox-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "orthodox", "autocephaly" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does it mean that Eastern Orthodox churches are 'autocephalous'?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "All are ruled centrally from Constantinople", "short": "All ruled centrally from Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "They submit jointly to the authority of Rome", "short": "All submit to the authority of Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Each governs itself under its own patriarch, self-headed", "short": "Each governs itself under a patriarch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "They reject bishops in favor of congregational voting", "short": "Bishops replaced by congregational votes" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Autocephalous literally means 'self-headed' — each national church governs itself under its own patriarch, with none subordinate to Rome or Constantinople.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "19fqanhi70p11" }, { "id": "ot-orthodox-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "orthodox", "theosis" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Orthodox theology, 'theosis' describes salvation as what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Justification by faith alone apart from works", "short": "Justification by faith alone" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Predestination of the elect before creation", "short": "Predestination before creation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A purely legal forgiveness of sins" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Actual participation in the divine nature, or deification", "short": "Sharing the divine nature" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Theosis ('deification') is the Orthodox vision of salvation as real participation in the divine nature — not merely a legal pardon or Protestant justification.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "9chhb46x466c" }, { "id": "ot-orthodox-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "orthodox", "divine-liturgy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Orthodox Divine Liturgy is traditionally attributed to which two figures?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine and Thomas Aquinas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Cyril and Methodius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The apostles Peter and Paul" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Chrysostom and Basil the Great" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The ancient Divine Liturgy is attributed to John Chrysostom or Basil the Great. Augustine and Aquinas are Western theologians; Cyril and Methodius were missionary brothers.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "pd93bbmd433x" }, { "id": "ot-orthodox-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "orthodox", "iconography" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How does Orthodoxy regard the sacred images, or icons, used in worship?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "As forbidden idols to be destroyed", "short": "As forbidden idols to destroy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As venerated 'windows into heaven'", "short": "As venerated windows into heaven" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As objects worshiped in place of God", "short": "As objects worshiped instead of God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As mere decorative art with no spiritual role", "short": "As merely decorative artwork" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Orthodoxy venerates icons as 'windows into heaven' — honored, not worshiped, and never dismissed as mere decoration or condemned as idols.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "16di0kt1fkb0nz" }, { "id": "ot-branches-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "baptist" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Protestant tradition practices believer's baptism and insists on local church autonomy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Anglican" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Methodist" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptist" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Baptists baptize adults on profession of faith and reject any binding denominational hierarchy above the congregation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "abo0aagckyt2" }, { "id": "ot-branches-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "pentecostal" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which tradition centers on the Holy Spirit's direct gifts — tongues, healing, and prophecy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Anglican", "short": "The Anglican tradition" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostal / Charismatic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran", "short": "The Lutheran tradition" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Reformed / Presbyterian" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Pentecostal / Charismatic wing is defined by the Holy Spirit's direct gifts. The Reformed and Lutheran streams emphasize doctrine, word, and sacrament instead.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1i7yf0zogubo" }, { "id": "ot-branches-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "anglican" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which tradition deliberately occupies a 'via media' between Catholic structure and Protestant theology?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostal / Charismatic" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptist / Free Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Methodist / Wesleyan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Anglican / Episcopal" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Anglican / Episcopal tradition intentionally takes a 'via media' or middle way between Catholic structure and Protestant theology.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "10es6gl1xgnrip" }, { "id": "ot-branches-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "reformed" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which tradition follows Calvin and stresses God's sovereignty, covenant theology, and elder-led governance?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran / Evangelical" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Reformed / Presbyterian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Methodist / Wesleyan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptist / Free Church" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Reformed / Presbyterian stream follows Calvin, emphasizing God's sovereignty, covenant theology, and government by elders.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1wi2u5xz0d6it" }, { "id": "ot-branches-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "lutheran" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which mark is NOT associated with the Lutheran tradition?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The two-kingdoms doctrine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Origin as the first Reformation stream", "short": "First of the Reformation streams" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Local church autonomy with no denominational hierarchy", "short": "Local church autonomy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Emphasis on grace, word, and sacrament", "short": "Emphasis on grace and sacrament" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Local church autonomy is a Baptist distinctive. Lutheranism — the original Reformation stream — emphasizes grace, word and sacrament, and the two-kingdoms doctrine.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1mkzobx1hproir" }, { "id": "ot-origins-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "pentecostal", "origins" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Pentecostal movement traces its birth to which 1906 revival in Los Angeles?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Cane Ridge Revival" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Welsh Revival" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Great Awakening" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Azusa Street Revival" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Pentecostal movement began at the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906. The other revivals are real but earlier or elsewhere.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "4flj711408url" }, { "id": "ot-origins-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "pentecostal", "size" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Approximately how many worldwide Pentecostal / Charismatic adherents are there?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "100 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "270 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "900 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "644 million" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Pentecostal/Charismatic adherents number about 644 million. 100 million is roughly global Baptist membership, 270 million is Orthodoxy, and 900 million is all Protestantism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1491mx5gfhhl" }, { "id": "ot-origins-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "baptist", "size" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Global Baptist membership stands near what figure?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "270 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "644 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1.3 billion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "100 million" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Global Baptist membership is near 100 million. 644 million is Pentecostal/Charismatic, 270 million is Orthodoxy, and 1.3 billion is the Roman Catholic Church.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "d8zi4ycrk7g4" }, { "id": "ot-origins-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "protestant", "origins" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which pairing of a tradition to its origin is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Anglican — Azusa Street, 1906" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostal — Henry VIII's England, 1534", "short": "Pentecostal — Henry VIII's England" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostal — Azusa Street, 1906" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Anglican — Wesley's revival, 1738" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Pentecostalism began at Azusa Street in 1906; Anglicanism began with Henry VIII in 1534. The other pairings scramble those origins.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1vu7hbv1e3v5up" }, { "id": "ot-denom-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "denominations", "methodist" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which denomination grew out of John Wesley's 18th-century revival movement?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Presbyterian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptist" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Methodist" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Methodism arose from John Wesley's 18th-century revival, emphasizing sanctification and social holiness.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ffo4tt6azjrx" }, { "id": "ot-denom-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "denominations", "anglican" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In the United States, the Anglican tradition is commonly known by which name?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Presbyterian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Congregationalist" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Episcopal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptist" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "In the US the Anglican tradition is called Episcopal. Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Baptist are distinct denominations.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "pd1954g5fu2u" }, { "id": "ot-denom-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "denominations", "presbyterian" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which denomination follows Calvin's Reformed theology and is governed by a body of elected elders?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Methodist" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Presbyterian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptist" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Presbyterian churches follow Calvin's Reformed theology and are governed by elders; the name derives from 'presbyter,' meaning elder.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "nvll5f10zbtfl" }, { "id": "ot-denom-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "denominations", "lutheran" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which denomination is the original Reformation stream, known for the two-kingdoms doctrine?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptist" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Methodist" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostal" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheran" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Lutheran church is the original Reformation stream, teaching grace, word and sacrament, and the two-kingdoms doctrine.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1cs0jun11krlj5" }, { "id": "ot-denom-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "denominations", "recognition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of the following is NOT a major Protestant denomination?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Methodist Movement" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Eastern Orthodox" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Presbyterian Tradition" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Lutheran Confession" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Eastern Orthodoxy is one of Christianity's three main branches, not a Protestant denomination. Methodist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches all trace to the Protestant Reformation; Orthodoxy split from Rome in 1054, long before it.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1966yfqxj86wi" }, { "id": "ot-gs-regions", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "global-south", "demographics" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which three regions make up the 'Global South' that now holds most of the world's Christians?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Africa, Europe, and the Middle East" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Europe, North America, and Australia" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Asia, North America, and Latin America" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Africa, Latin America, and Asia" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Global South — Africa, Latin America, and Asia — is home to about 69% of all Christians as of 2025, reversing the faith's earlier Western center of gravity.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1fboc3p13478ux" }, { "id": "ot-gs-1900", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "global-south", "1900" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In 1900, about what share of the world's Christians lived in Europe or North America?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "40%" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "69%" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "95%" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50%" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "In 1900 roughly 95% of Christians were Western, and the faith was seen as a 'Western religion.' That picture has nearly reversed, with about 69% now in the Global South.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1oy50xhhmpp79" }, { "id": "ot-gs-africa", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "africa", "growth" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Africa's Christian population grew from fewer than 10 million in 1900 to roughly how many today?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "734 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "460 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1.2 billion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "210 million" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Africa saw the most dramatic shift of all — from under 10 million Christians in 1900 to about 734 million today, growing at about 2.64% a year.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "wd5x5w1tstiza" }, { "id": "ot-gs-questions", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "theology", "global-south" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which concern is NOT among the questions the guide says press most on Global South Christians?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Healing and spiritual warfare" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Poverty and material suffering" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Enlightenment skepticism and biblical criticism", "short": "Enlightenment doubt and criticism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Indigenous culture and land rights" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Enlightenment skepticism and biblical criticism preoccupied Western theologians. The Global South's live questions are poverty, healing, spiritual warfare, indigenous culture, corruption, and land rights.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "sus2aln34g3v" }, { "id": "ot-ecum-def", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "ecumenism", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does 'ecumenism' refer to in modern Christianity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The splitting of churches into new denominations", "short": "Splitting into new denominations" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The spread of Christianity into the Global South", "short": "Spreading into the Global South" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The translation of the Bible into local languages", "short": "Translating the Bible locally" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The movement seeking greater cooperation and eventual unity among divided churches", "short": "Seeking unity among churches" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Ecumenism is the movement seeking greater cooperation and eventual unity among Christianity's divided churches and denominations — the opposite of fragmentation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "gy0ts171n5o" }, { "id": "ot-ecum-1964", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "catholic-orthodox", "1964" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In 1964 Patriarch Athenagoras met, in the first papal-patriarchal meeting since 1439, with which pope?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul VI" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John XXIII" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pius XII" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Paul II" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "In 1964 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople met in Jerusalem — the first such meeting since the 1439 Council of Florence.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "13023ejsqhinj" }, { "id": "ot-ecum-1965", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "great-schism", "1965" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What symbolic step in 1965 addressed the Great Schism between Rome and Constantinople?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Roman Catholic Church joined the World Council of Churches", "short": "Joined the World Council of Churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Joint Declaration on Justification was signed", "short": "Joint Declaration on Justification" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The mutual excommunications of 1054 were lifted", "short": "The mutual excommunications lifted" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Florence reunited the churches", "short": "Council of Florence reunited them" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "In 1965 the mutual excommunications of 1054 that had opened the Great Schism were lifted simultaneously in Rome and Constantinople — a symbolic gesture that did not yet restore communion.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "oyvkbyfnx1wq" }, { "id": "ot-ecum-1999-doc", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "justification", "1999" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The 1999 Joint Declaration by the Catholic Church and Lutheran World Federation resolved a long dispute over which doctrine?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Trinity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Justification" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Papal infallibility" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The 1999 Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification declared substantial agreement on justification — salvation by faith and grace — a dispute central to the Reformation split.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "14kbbk88gmr2k" }, { "id": "ot-ecum-1999-content", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "reformation", "justification" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Salvation by faith and grace — the doctrine at the heart of the 1999 Joint Declaration — had helped split Western Christianity during which movement?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Vatican II" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Great Schism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Reformation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Enlightenment" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Justification by faith and grace was a defining dispute of the Reformation. The 1999 Joint Declaration found substantial agreement, though governance and papal authority still divide the churches.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "jush9h1d937q5" }, { "id": "ot-frag-wcc-year", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "wcc", "1948" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year was the World Council of Churches founded?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "1948" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1999" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1962" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "1054" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The World Council of Churches was founded in 1948 in Amsterdam, gathering most major Protestant and Orthodox churches to pursue visible Christian unity.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "rrdxzzmzjv4v" }, { "id": "ot-frag-wcc-city", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "wcc", "amsterdam" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which city was the World Council of Churches founded in 1948?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Amsterdam" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The WCC was founded in Amsterdam in 1948. Geneva is a tempting distractor because the WCC's headquarters are there, but it was not the founding city.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1h8eowy15eu7r8" }, { "id": "ot-frag-denom-1900", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "denominations", "1900" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "About how many Christian denominations existed worldwide in 1900?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "500" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "2,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "12,000" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "In 1900 there were an estimated 2,000 Christian denominations. By 2025 that figure had exploded to roughly 50,000, driven by Pentecostal and indigenous church movements.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "17mdayvr9d7gn" }, { "id": "ot-frag-denom-2025", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "denominations", "2025" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "By 2025, roughly how many Christian denominations are there worldwide?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "5,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "150,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "2,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50,000" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Denominations grew from about 2,000 in 1900 to roughly 50,000 by 2025 — read by some as vitality, by others as a scandal against Jesus's prayer 'that they may be one.'", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "14fh9pt1xsl2th" }, { "id": "ot-cur-pentecostal", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecostalism", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which three features especially define Pentecostalism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Infant baptism, Latin liturgy, and papal authority", "short": "Infant baptism, Latin, papal power" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Biblical criticism, higher education, and social reform", "short": "Bible criticism, schooling, reform" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and miraculous healing", "short": "Spirit baptism, tongues, healing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Icon veneration, monasticism, and fasting", "short": "Icons, monasticism, fasting" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Pentecostalism, rooted in the 1906 Azusa Street Revival, emphasizes baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and miraculous healing — one in four Christians worldwide is Pentecostal.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "15u8j1nxz1983" }, { "id": "ot-cur-liberation", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "liberation-theology", "gutierrez" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Liberation Theology, associated with Gustavo Gutiérrez, is best known for stressing what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Visible unity among all churches", "short": "Visible unity among all the churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "God's 'preferential option for the poor'", "short": "A preferential option for the poor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Faith as a path to material wealth", "short": "Faith as a path to wealth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The baptism of the Holy Spirit" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Liberation Theology emerged from 1970s Latin America with Gustavo Gutiérrez, stressing God's 'preferential option for the poor' and naming structural injustice as sin.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7utzi4pyn7eo" }, { "id": "ot-cur-prosperity", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "prosperity-gospel", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which teaching frames faith as yielding material wealth and physical health, and is widely criticized as a distortion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Ecumenism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Liberation Theology" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Feminist Theology" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Prosperity Gospel" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Prosperity Gospel, prominent in some Pentecostal contexts, teaches that faith yields wealth and health. It has spread in Africa and Latin America but is widely criticized by mainstream theologians.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "fsqp7iwhj2jo" }, { "id": "ot-cur-nones", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nones", "usa" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who are the 'nones,' now about 28% of Americans?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Members of churches with no denomination" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Christians living in the Global South" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "People who claim no religious affiliation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "People who left Catholicism for Protestantism" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The 'nones' claim no religious affiliation — often 'spiritual but not religious' — and now make up about 28% of Americans, up from roughly 16% in 2007.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "nsm174tf26o0" }, { "id": "ot-deb-feminist", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "feminist-theology", "definition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Feminist theology is characterized by what approach?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Rereading Scripture through women's experience", "short": "Scripture read through women's eyes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Emphasizing speaking in tongues and healing", "short": "Emphasizing tongues and Spirit healing" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Framing faith as a source of material wealth", "short": "Faith as a source of wealth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Restricting ordination to men" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Feminist theology rereads Scripture through women's experience and has accompanied women's ordination in most mainline Protestant denominations.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1skklx71vzyk0p" }, { "id": "ot-deb-ordination", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "ordination", "feminist-theology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Women's ordination has accompanied feminist theology in most mainline Protestant denominations. Which body ordains women?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Eastern Orthodox Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Coptic Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Roman Catholic Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Episcopal Church" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches ordain women. Catholic, Orthodox, and Coptic churches maintain a male-only priesthood.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "18aymxknh3g5m" }, { "id": "ot-deb-liberation-sin", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "liberation-theology", "structural-sin" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Liberation Theology is notable for naming what as sin?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Structural injustice" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Speaking in tongues" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Disunity among churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Private doubt and skepticism" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Liberation Theology names structural injustice — not merely individual wrongdoing — as sin, pairing this with God's 'preferential option for the poor.'", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1rkl3p6icd0f0" }, { "id": "ot-deb-prosperity", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "prosperity-gospel", "critique" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How do mainstream theologians generally regard the Prosperity Gospel?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "As the core of Liberation Theology" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a distortion of the Christian tradition" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As the official teaching of the World Council of Churches" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "As a form of feminist theology" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Though it has spread widely in Africa and Latin America, the Prosperity Gospel is widely criticized by mainstream theologians as a distortion of the Christian tradition.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ba4tgf1t0lpzt" }, { "id": "ot-apostolic-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Peter", "apostles" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Under which Roman emperor was Peter, the chief apostle and first leader of the Jerusalem church, traditionally martyred?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Diocletian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Trajan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nero" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Peter was traditionally martyred in Rome under Nero. Constantine later legalized Christianity; Diocletian and Trajan persecuted it in other periods.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1sw6l6e17zb9qm" }, { "id": "ot-apostolic-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Mary Magdalene", "Resurrection" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In all four Gospels, who is named as the first witness to the Resurrection?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "John the Apostle" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Mary Magdalene" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Mary the mother of Jesus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Simon Peter" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Mary Magdalene, a prominent disciple, is the first witness to the Resurrection in all four Gospels — striking in a patriarchal age. Peter and John came to the empty tomb afterward.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1op10to19ntzge" }, { "id": "ot-apostolic-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Athanasius", "orthodoxy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Athanasius of Alexandria earned which title for his defense of orthodox doctrine?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Father of Western monasticism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Father of Orthodoxy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Father of modern missions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Prince of Preachers" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Athanasius is called the 'Father of Orthodoxy.' 'Prince of Preachers' is Spurgeon, 'father of modern missions' is Carey, and 'father of Western monasticism' is Benedict.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "hor7731fzrlk7" }, { "id": "ot-apostolic-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Athanasius", "canon" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Athanasius was the first to list exactly which set of books as the New Testament canon?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The 66 books" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The 39 books" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The 27 books" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The 46 books" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Athanasius was the first to name exactly the 27 books of the New Testament. The other counts refer to different totals (e.g., 39 Old Testament books, 66 for the whole Protestant Bible).", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "17npnxdr01di5" }, { "id": "ot-apostolic-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Athanasius", "Arius" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which accomplishment is NOT associated with Athanasius of Alexandria?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Being called the Father of Orthodoxy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Defending Christ's full divinity against Arius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "First listing the 27-book New Testament canon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Writing a monastic Rule that organized medieval life" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The monastic Rule was Benedict of Nursia's work. Athanasius defended Christ's divinity against Arius, was the Father of Orthodoxy, and named the 27-book canon.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "x38569mproj7" }, { "id": "ot-medieval-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Benedict", "monasticism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Benedict of Nursia is best known as the father of what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Scholastic theology" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Modern missions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Western monasticism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Orthodoxy" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Benedict gave Western monasticism its enduring shape. Modern missions traces to Carey, Orthodoxy to Athanasius, and scholastic theology to figures like Aquinas.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1r6419sjqfs88" }, { "id": "ot-medieval-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Benedict", "Rule" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which document by Benedict of Nursia organized medieval monastic life?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Rule" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Summa Theologica" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Ninety-Five Theses" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Benedict's Rule structured monastic life. The Ninety-Five Theses were Luther's, the Institutes were Calvin's, and the Summa was Aquinas's.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "r5mz7p5c4m5n" }, { "id": "ot-medieval-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Benedict", "monasteries" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Benedict's vision, medieval monasteries became the era's libraries, schools, and what else?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Mints" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Courts" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Barracks" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Hospitals" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Benedict turned monasteries into the libraries, schools, and hospitals of medieval Europe — centers of care and learning, not finance, law, or military.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "34ym7n1tssqvh" }, { "id": "ot-medieval-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Gregory", "missions" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Gregory the Great, who became pope in 590, is credited with sending missionaries to which land?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "England" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "India" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Poland" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "China" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Gregory the Great reorganized the medieval papacy and sent missionaries to England. India is linked to Carey, and Poland to John Paul II.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "3xby3w1our8ty" }, { "id": "ot-medieval-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Gregory", "Benedict" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which achievement belongs to Gregory the Great rather than to Benedict of Nursia?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Turning monasteries into schools and hospitals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Founding Western monasticism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Writing the Rule for monastic life" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Reorganizing the medieval papacy" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Gregory the Great reorganized the medieval papacy. Writing the Rule, founding Western monasticism, and shaping monastic institutions were all Benedict's contributions.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1atsugb9q298j" }, { "id": "ot-modern-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Wilberforce", "abolition" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "William Wilberforce, an evangelical member of Parliament, devoted his career to which cause?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Reorganizing the papacy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Abolishing the British slave trade" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Translating the Bible into Indian languages" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Founding modern missions" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Wilberforce drove the abolition of the British slave trade. Missionary work in India belongs to Carey, papal reform to Gregory, and modern missions again to Carey.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ur0cro1mv9456" }, { "id": "ot-modern-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Carey", "missions" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Who is remembered as the 'father of modern missions' for pioneering Protestant work in India?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "William Carey" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Billy Graham" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William Wilberforce" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Charles Spurgeon" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "William Carey pioneered Protestant missionary work in India, earning the title 'father of modern missions.' Spurgeon preached in London, Wilberforce fought slavery, and Graham led 20th-century crusades.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "isyb1mljdx26" }, { "id": "ot-modern-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Spurgeon", "preaching" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Victorian 'Prince of Preachers,' who filled a London tabernacle every week, was:" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Billy Graham" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William Carey" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Charles Spurgeon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William Wilberforce" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Charles Spurgeon, the Victorian 'Prince of Preachers,' filled his London tabernacle weekly. Carey worked in India, Graham led 20th-century crusades, and Wilberforce was a politician.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1i9ksiah2don8" }, { "id": "ot-modern-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "John Paul II", "communism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Pope John Paul II, the Polish pope, is credited with helping to bring down what in Europe?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Feudalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The British slave trade" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Arian heresy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "European communism" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "John Paul II helped bring down European communism while energizing global Catholicism. The slave trade fell to Wilberforce, Arianism was fought by Athanasius, and feudalism ended centuries earlier.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "9mx6oilpoj44" }, { "id": "ot-theo-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Augustine", "grace" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which theologian is remembered above all for defining the Christian understanding of grace?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Calvin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine of Hippo" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Augustine is the theologian who defined grace. Aquinas is associated with reason, Calvin with systematizing Reformed theology, and Ignatius with founding the Jesuits.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "andsk210cn2kg" }, { "id": "ot-theo-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Aquinas", "reason" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which medieval theologian is associated with defining the role of reason in the faith, synthesizing Christianity with Aristotle?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine of Hippo" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Martin Luther" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Wesley" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Aquinas is the theologian of reason, synthesizing Christianity with Aristotle in his Summa. Augustine defined grace, Luther launched the Reformation, and Wesley founded Methodism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ygtfceeynlik" }, { "id": "ot-theo-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Luther", "Reformation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "'The monk who broke it open' — whose protest launched the Protestant Reformation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "John Calvin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Martin Luther" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Wesley" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, broke the church open and launched the Reformation. Calvin systematized it later, Ignatius led a Catholic response, and Wesley came in the 18th century.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "osuhhr15vyd5d" }, { "id": "ot-theo-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Calvin", "Geneva" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which reformer is remembered for systematizing Protestant theology in his Institutes and leading the church in Geneva?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Martin Luther" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Wesley" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Calvin" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "John Calvin systematized Reformed theology in his Institutes and led Geneva. Luther began the Reformation, Wesley founded Methodism, and Ignatius founded the Jesuits.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7u8lmdl7kmbl" }, { "id": "ot-esa-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Constantine", "legalization" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Roman emperor is remembered as the one who legalized Christianity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Nero" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Julian the Apostate" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Diocletian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine I" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Constantine I legalized Christianity. Nero and Diocletian persecuted it, and Julian later tried to revive paganism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "asm0sp19om5vj" }, { "id": "ot-esa-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Francis", "Constantine", "MLK" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which figure-and-role pairing is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Francis of Assisi — a Polish pope who helped end communism", "short": "Francis of Assisi — Polish pope" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine I — a minister who led the civil-rights movement", "short": "Constantine I — civil-rights leader" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Martin Luther King Jr. — a Roman emperor who legalized Christianity", "short": "MLK Jr. — Roman emperor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Francis of Assisi — a friar who embraced radical poverty", "short": "Francis of Assisi — poverty friar" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Francis of Assisi was the friar known for radical poverty. Constantine was the emperor who legalized Christianity, and Martin Luther King Jr. was the minister who led the civil-rights movement — the other pairings swap their identities.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "mtmgtx10c44nz" }, { "id": "ot-esa-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Francis", "poverty" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which figure founded the Franciscan order and embraced a life of poverty and care for creation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Francis of Assisi" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Benedict of Nursia" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscans and embraced radical poverty. Ignatius founded the Jesuits, Benedict shaped monasticism, and Aquinas was a scholastic theologian.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ambsxa1ngm2ow" }, { "id": "ot-esa-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "MLK", "justice" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "'The minister who turned the gospel into a movement for justice' points to which figure?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "William Wilberforce" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Martin Luther King Jr." }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Charles Spurgeon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Billy Graham" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Martin Luther King Jr., a minister, turned the gospel into a civil-rights movement for justice. Wilberforce was a politician, and Graham and Spurgeon were revivalist preachers.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1j5zh5ayjantm" }, { "id": "ot-esa-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "Constantine", "comparison" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement is NOT true of Constantine I?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "He founded a movement for civil rights", "short": "He founded a civil-rights movement" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He legalized Christianity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He was a Roman emperor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "He came before Julian the Apostate" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The civil-rights movement belongs to Martin Luther King Jr., not Constantine. Constantine was the Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and reigned before Julian tried to revive paganism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "8m1kf76d4gl" }, { "id": "ot-jesus-sites-jordan", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "jordan", "baptism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which body of water was Jesus baptized by John?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Sea of Galilee" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Nile River" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Jordan River" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Dead Sea" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River, still a pilgrimage destination today. The Sea of Galilee is the freshwater lake of his ministry region, not the site of his baptism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11o45b1haa2av" }, { "id": "ot-jesus-sites-bethlehem", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "bethlehem", "nativity" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which town, just south of Jerusalem, is revered as the birthplace of Jesus?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Golgotha" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Galilee" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nazareth" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus and the site of the Church of the Nativity. Nazareth is where he grew up; Golgotha is the hill of the crucifixion.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1hgplx9cflm35" }, { "id": "ot-jesus-sites-nazareth", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nazareth", "galilee" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which Galilean town did Jesus grow up?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Nazareth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Capernaum" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Nazareth, up north in Galilee, is where Jesus grew up. Bethlehem was his birthplace, and Antioch was a later mission hub in Turkey.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "kb6bf6h8ros" }, { "id": "ot-jesus-sites-galilee", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "galilee", "ministry" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which northern region — home to the Mount of Beatitudes and a namesake freshwater sea — hosted most of Jesus's ministry?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Judea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Samaria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Galatia" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Galilee" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Galilee, with its lake (the Sea of Galilee) and the Mount of Beatitudes, is the region of most of Jesus's ministry. Galatia is a separate region in Asia Minor tied to Paul's letters.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1f4hoxi15m96ao" }, { "id": "ot-hubs-alexandria-scholar", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "alexandria", "scholarship" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which city was the great center of Christian scholarship, home to Origen and Athanasius?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Alexandria in Egypt became the great center of Christian scholarship, home to Origen and Athanasius. Antioch was the launchpad for the mission to Gentiles, not the scholarly center.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "tz90ek1bc8oig" }, { "id": "ot-hubs-rome-martyr", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "rome", "martyrdom" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which city were the apostles Peter and Paul martyred?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Rome is where Peter and Paul were martyred; it grew into the capital of Western Catholicism. Jerusalem was the faith's spiritual center but not the site of their martyrdom.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ovmwg08g8ruq" }, { "id": "ot-hubs-rome-vatican", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "rome", "vatican" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which city grew into the capital of Western Catholicism and contains the walled enclave of Vatican City?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Rome became the capital of Western Catholicism, with the tiny walled enclave of Vatican City at its heart. Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern church.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "875fgwcjq1w6" }, { "id": "ot-hubs-alexandria-coptic", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "alexandria", "coptic" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which city is the seat of the Coptic Church?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Alexandria in Egypt is the seat of the Coptic Church and the great center of Christian learning, home to Origen and Athanasius. Rome is the seat of Western Catholicism, not the Coptic Church.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1lv17nm1imqwio" }, { "id": "ot-hubs-rome-not", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "rome", "not-question" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which statement about Rome is NOT true?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Peter and Paul were martyred there" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It contains the walled enclave of Vatican City", "short": "It holds the enclave of Vatican City" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It was home to the Coptic Church and Athanasius", "short": "It was home to the Coptic Church" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It became the capital of Western Catholicism", "short": "It became the Western Catholic capital" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Coptic Church and Athanasius belong to Alexandria, not Rome. The other three statements — the martyrdoms, Western Catholicism, and Vatican City — all describe Rome.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1mtg320judm8i" }, { "id": "ot-origin-antioch-christians", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "antioch", "christians" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which city were believers first called \"Christians\"?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Alexandria" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Antioch, in what is now southern Turkey, is where believers were first called \"Christians\" and was the launchpad for the mission to non-Jews. Jerusalem was the movement's original center.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1kly1cg1345ly8" }, { "id": "ot-origin-antioch-gentiles", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "antioch", "gentile-mission" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which city in modern southern Turkey was the launchpad for the mission to non-Jews?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Ephesus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Antioch was the launchpad for the mission to Gentiles. Nicaea and Constantinople in Turkey are later council cities, not the base of the early Gentile mission.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ga1iaplul3rp" }, { "id": "ot-origin-jerusalem", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "jerusalem", "spiritual-center" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which city — site of the crucifixion, resurrection, and Pentecost — remains Christianity's spiritual center?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Jerusalem is the site of the crucifixion, resurrection, and Pentecost, and remains the spiritual center of the faith. Bethlehem was Jesus's birthplace, a distinct site.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1k8i47f1uz3wd7" }, { "id": "ot-origin-bethlehem", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "bethlehem", "nativity" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which founding-era town, just south of Jerusalem, is home to the Church of the Nativity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jericho" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Galilee" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nazareth" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Bethlehem, just south of Jerusalem, is the birthplace of Jesus and site of the Church of the Nativity. Nazareth, in the north, is where Jesus grew up.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1kh02ub1bffw4r" }, { "id": "ot-origin-rome", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "rome", "catholicism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which founding-era city became the capital of Western Catholicism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Rome, where Peter and Paul were martyred, grew into the capital of Western Catholicism. Constantinople became the capital of the Eastern church instead.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1y3cg0i1nmvrk" }, { "id": "ot-later-constantinople", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "constantinople", "eastern-church" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which city — the \"New Rome,\" today's Istanbul — became the capital of the Eastern church?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Constantinople, the \"New Rome\" and today's Istanbul, became the capital of the Eastern church and, at Hagia Sophia, the epicenter of the Great Schism. Nicaea was a council town nearby.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "2520ju13nwbag" }, { "id": "ot-later-wittenberg", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "wittenberg", "reformation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which German town did Luther's Ninety-Five Theses light the Reformation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Canterbury" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wittenberg" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Wittenberg in Germany is where Luther's Ninety-Five Theses lit the Reformation. Geneva was Calvin's Swiss base, and Canterbury is the seat of Anglican Christianity.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1rfp9xn1rpwj3r" }, { "id": "ot-later-geneva", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "geneva", "calvin" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Swiss city, nicknamed \"the Protestant Rome,\" is where Calvin built his church?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wittenberg" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Zurich" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Geneva in Switzerland, \"the Protestant Rome,\" is where Calvin built his church. Wittenberg was Luther's German town; Zurich is a plausible but incorrect Swiss city.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1coojn1aagfvx" }, { "id": "ot-later-pairing", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "reformation", "great-schism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which pairing of a later-era city to what happened there is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople — start of the Reformation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wittenberg — Luther's Ninety-Five Theses" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea — the Great Schism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva — Luther's Ninety-Five Theses" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Wittenberg is where Luther's Ninety-Five Theses lit the Reformation. Geneva was Calvin's base, the Great Schism centered on Constantinople, and Nicaea gave its name to the creed — so the other pairings are wrong.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "gxjp4117ibssz" }, { "id": "ot-modern-azusa-street", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "azusa-street", "pentecostalism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Where was Pentecostalism born in a 1906 revival?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethel Bible School, Topeka" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Azusa Street, Los Angeles" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Northampton, Massachusetts" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Cane Ridge, Kentucky" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Azusa Street in Los Angeles is where Pentecostalism was born in 1906. Canterbury, Wittenberg, and Geneva are older European centers tied to the Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed traditions.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11zsvlptlbk8n" }, { "id": "ot-modern-canterbury-seat", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canterbury", "anglican" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which site is the historic seat of Anglican Christianity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Azusa Street" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Canterbury" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Wittenberg" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Canterbury is the historic seat of Anglican Christianity. Azusa Street is the birthplace of Pentecostalism, Geneva was Calvin's Reformed base, and Wittenberg was Luther's town.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1fq0neszenymw" }, { "id": "ot-modern-canterbury-anglican", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canterbury", "anglican" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Canterbury is the historic seat of which tradition?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Roman Catholicism", "short": "Roman Catholic Christianity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostalism", "short": "Pentecostal Christianity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Anglican Christianity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Eastern Orthodoxy", "short": "Eastern Orthodox Christianity" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Canterbury is the historic seat of Anglican Christianity. Pentecostalism was born on Azusa Street, and Roman Catholicism is centered on Rome.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "pjc85n1ox7pj5" }, { "id": "ot-modern-pentecostal-growth", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecostalism", "fastest-growing" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which movement, born on Azusa Street, is described as the fastest-growing form of the faith?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Methodism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Anglicanism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentecostalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Lutheranism" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Pentecostalism, born on Azusa Street in 1906, is now the fastest-growing form of Christianity. Anglicanism is centered on Canterbury, and Lutheranism traces to Wittenberg.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "3sijnxpz1zgt" }, { "id": "ot-modern-pairing", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canterbury", "azusa-street" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which pairing of a modern-tradition site to its role is correct?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Azusa Street — seat of Anglican Christianity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Canterbury — seat of Anglican Christianity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Canterbury — birthplace of Pentecostalism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Azusa Street — a historic English cathedral city" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Canterbury is the seat of Anglican Christianity, while Azusa Street in Los Angeles is the birthplace of Pentecostalism. The other pairings swap the two sites' roles.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "vvxkn216e63me" }, { "id": "ot-canon-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canon", "scripture" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The biblical canon is best defined as which of the following?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The movement seeking visible unity among churches", "short": "The movement seeking church unity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The study of the end of history and last things", "short": "The study of the last things" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The principles and methods of interpreting Scripture", "short": "The methods of interpreting Scripture" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The authoritative list of books accepted as Scripture", "short": "The accepted list of biblical books" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The canon is the authoritative list of books accepted as Scripture. Interpreting those books is hermeneutics; the end of history is eschatology; church unity is ecumenism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "10ncb9m1wfbffg" }, { "id": "ot-canon-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "canon", "numbers" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many Old Testament books does the Protestant canon contain?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Forty-six" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Thirty-nine" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Twenty-seven" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Sixty-six" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Protestants count 39 Old Testament books. Twenty-seven is the New Testament; 46-49 is the Catholic Old Testament including the Deuterocanon; 66 is the whole Protestant Bible.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1fpi1nz1men585" }, { "id": "ot-canon-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "hermeneutics", "interpretation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Christian theology, hermeneutics refers to which of the following?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The study of last things and Christ's return", "short": "The study of last things" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Orthodox vision of salvation as deification", "short": "The Orthodox view of salvation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The authoritative list of canonical books", "short": "The list of canonical books" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The principles and methods of interpreting Scripture", "short": "The rules for reading Scripture" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Hermeneutics is the discipline of interpretation — how one reads the Bible. The list of books is the canon; last things is eschatology; deification is theosis.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "2n0fytfw4rol" }, { "id": "ot-canon-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "hermeneutics", "approaches" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of the following is NOT one of the four broad approaches to biblical interpretation?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Literal/inerrant" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Allegorical/typological" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ecumenical/liturgical" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Historical-critical" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The four recurring approaches are literal/inerrant, infallible, historical-critical, and allegorical/typological. 'Ecumenical/liturgical' is not among them.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "9uuesktfg6qo" }, { "id": "ot-esch-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "eschatology", "last-things" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Eschatology is the branch of theology concerned with what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The principles of interpreting the Bible", "short": "Rules for interpreting the Bible" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The doctrine that bread and wine become Christ's body", "short": "Bread and wine become Christ's body" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Last things — the end of history, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell", "short": "Last things: end and final judgment" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The authoritative list of scriptural books", "short": "The list of authoritative scriptures" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Eschatology studies 'last things': Christ's return, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell. The other options describe canon, hermeneutics, and transubstantiation.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1wfzya8ct75hy" }, { "id": "ot-esch-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parousia", "second-coming" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Christian theology, the Parousia refers to what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The deification of the believer in Orthodox thought", "short": "The deification of the Orthodox believer" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Christ's return in glory to judge the living and the dead", "short": "The return of Christ in glory" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The bodily resurrection of all believers", "short": "The bodily resurrection of all" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The symbolic thousand-year reign of Revelation 20", "short": "The thousand-year reign in Revelation" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Parousia is the Second Coming — Christ's return in glory to judge the living and the dead, affirmed by all traditions. The millennium, resurrection, and theosis are distinct ideas.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "yfyg781l3xvaa" }, { "id": "ot-esch-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "millennium", "eschatology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which school holds that Christ returns BEFORE the thousand-year reign of Revelation 20?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Preterism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Amillennialism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Premillennialism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Postmillennialism" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Premillennialism holds Christ returns before the millennium. Amillennialism reads it as symbolic of the present age; postmillennialism places his return after a golden age.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "11ba3m9iy865d" }, { "id": "ot-esch-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parousia", "consensus" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which element of eschatology is affirmed by ALL Christian traditions?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Postmillennial Position" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Parousia, Christ's Second Coming" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Premillennial Position" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A strictly symbolic reading of the millennium" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "All traditions affirm the Parousia. The millennial positions (pre-, a-, post-) are precisely the points on which Christians divide.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "apdszr8dpqhf" }, { "id": "ot-esch-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "eschatology", "last-things" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of the following does eschatology, the study of 'last things,' NOT address?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The final judgment" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The formation of the New Testament canon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The resurrection of the dead" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Heaven and hell" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Eschatology treats last things — Christ's return, resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell. How the New Testament canon was formed is a matter of Scripture's history, not eschatology.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "ly4lgg9x9qn2" }, { "id": "ot-doc-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "creeds", "nicene" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which document is the fullest conciliar creed (325/381) stating the church's doctrine of the Trinity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Ninety-Five Theses" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Athanasian Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Nicene Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Apostles' Creed" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Nicene Creed (325/381) is the fullest conciliar statement on the Trinity. The Apostles' Creed is a short baptismal statement; the Athanasian is 5th-century; the Theses are Luther's.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1w1n1oy1odf83k" }, { "id": "ot-doc-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "documents", "theses" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "By its purpose and form, the Ninety-Five Theses are best described as which kind of document?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A comprehensive summary of theology, a summa" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A list of propositions offered for debate" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "An imperial edict of toleration" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "A short early baptismal creed" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The Ninety-Five Theses are a list of theses — propositions for debate. An edict of toleration is the Edict of Milan; a summa is Aquinas's work; a baptismal creed is the Apostles' Creed.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1uiowm3cjn75h" }, { "id": "ot-doc-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "documents", "edict" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of these documents was an imperial edict that granted toleration to Christianity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Thessalonica" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Decius's edict of universal sacrifice" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Diocletian's persecution edict" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan (313) was the imperial edict granting toleration to Christians. The Edict of Thessalonica (380) instead made Nicene Christianity the state religion, while Diocletian's and Decius's edicts commanded persecution and sacrifice — not toleration.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1v7jaaw13g3p4g" }, { "id": "ot-doc-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "documents", "confessions" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The guide identifies one of these documents as an autobiography. Which is it?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Nicene Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Confessions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Augustine's Confessions is the autobiography. The Institutes is Calvin's systematic theology; the Nicene Creed is a creed; the Edict of Milan is an imperial edict.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "fzovto1nqo3xm" }, { "id": "ot-num-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "numbers", "adherents" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Approximately how many adherents does Christianity have worldwide?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "About 900 million" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 2.63 billion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 3.9 billion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 1.3 billion" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Christianity has roughly 2.63 billion adherents. About 1.3 billion of them are Roman Catholic — a tempting distractor since it names only the largest single church.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "jd0cua109gxfa" }, { "id": "ot-num-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "numbers", "councils" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many early ecumenical councils did the church hold between 325 and 787?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Twenty-one" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Fourteen" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Seven" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Four" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "There were 7 early ecumenical councils (325-787). Twenty-one is the total number of councils the Catholic Church recognizes across all history, a common distractor.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "r7hwil1mbdee3" }, { "id": "ot-num-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "numbers", "crusades" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many major Crusades took place between 1095 and 1270?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Eight" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Three" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Twelve" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "There were 8 major Crusades between 1095 and 1270. The other counts are plausible but incorrect.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "19p5r4z1xoya5j" }, { "id": "ot-num-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "numbers", "denominations" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Christianity today is splintered into approximately how many denominations?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "About 50,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 120,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 9,000" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "About 25,000" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The faith today is estimated at roughly 50,000 denominations. The smaller and larger figures are plausible but not the number cited in the guide.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "cdtynr1bal8e7" }, { "id": "ot-term-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "ecumenism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which term names the movement seeking visible unity among divided Christian churches?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Theosis" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ecumenism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Glossolalia" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Ecumenism is the movement for visible church unity. Theosis is deification; transubstantiation concerns the Eucharist; glossolalia is speaking in tongues.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "70u3hf3an6vx" }, { "id": "ot-term-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "theosis" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The Eastern Orthodox vision of salvation as deification — participation in the divine nature — is called what?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Theosis" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ecumenism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Glossolalia" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Theosis is the Orthodox idea of salvation as deification. Ecumenism, transubstantiation, and glossolalia name a movement, a Eucharistic doctrine, and a Pentecostal phenomenon respectively.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1yobs66dlkb7q" }, { "id": "ot-term-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "transubstantiation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Catholic doctrine teaches that the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Theosis" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ecumenism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Glossolalia" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Transubstantiation is the Catholic doctrine that the elements become Christ's body and blood. Theosis is deification, glossolalia is tongues, and ecumenism is the unity movement.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1c3pyemn6qc7e" }, { "id": "ot-term-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "glossolalia" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "'Speaking in tongues,' the hallmark of the Pentecostal experience, is known by which term?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Glossolalia" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ecumenism" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Theosis" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Glossolalia is speaking in tongues, central to Pentecostalism. Theosis, ecumenism, and transubstantiation name deification, church unity, and a Eucharistic doctrine.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "gih40hltgy3p" }, { "id": "ot-term-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "vocabulary", "matching" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of these term-and-meaning pairings is INCORRECT?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Theosis — salvation as deification" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ecumenism — the movement for church unity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Transubstantiation — the study of last things" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Glossolalia — speaking in tongues" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Transubstantiation is the Catholic Eucharistic doctrine, not the study of last things (that is eschatology). The other three pairings are correct.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "18y9k0p1j5ey1t" }, { "id": "ot-people-paul", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "people", "Paul", "early church" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which figure, a former Pharisee who at first violently persecuted the movement, was transformed by a roadside vision and argued that Gentiles need not first become Jews to follow Christ?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Paul of Tarsus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine of Hippo" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Paul, a Pharisee from Tarsus who first persecuted the movement, was transformed on the road to Damascus, argued Gentiles need not become Jews, and wrote roughly half the New Testament.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "155d99y1ueagts" }, { "id": "ot-people-constantine", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "people", "Constantine", "councils" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Roman emperor convened the first ecumenical council at Nicaea in 325 and founded a new eastern capital named for himself?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Justinian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Licinius" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Emperor Nero" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine I" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Constantine issued the Edict of Milan with Licinius, convened the first council at Nicaea in 325, and founded Constantinople. Licinius was his co-emperor, not the council's convener.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "uf7qok28t638" }, { "id": "ot-people-aquinas", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "people", "Aquinas", "philosophy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which 13th-century Dominican friar harmonized Christian theology with Aristotle in his Summa Theologica?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Francis of Assisi" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Augustine of Hippo" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Calvin" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Aquinas, a Dominican friar, argued faith and reason are complementary and wrote the Summa Theologica with its 'Five Ways.' Francis was a Franciscan; Augustine and Calvin predate/postdate this synthesis.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1ow3wbgh9o12e" }, { "id": "ot-people-calvin", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "people", "Calvin", "Reformation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of the following is NOT associated with John Calvin?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Total depravity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Ninety-Five Theses" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Predestination" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The city of Geneva" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Calvin led the Reformation in Geneva and taught predestination and total depravity. The Ninety-Five Theses were Martin Luther's, not Calvin's.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1j89ijmrcbpxm" }, { "id": "ot-places-bethlehem", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "places", "Bethlehem", "origins" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which town, home to the Church of the Nativity, do Christians revere as the birthplace of Jesus?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Nazareth" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethlehem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Jerusalem" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Bethlehem, just south of Jerusalem, holds the Church of the Nativity and is revered as Jesus's birthplace. Jerusalem is the site of the crucifixion and resurrection, not the birth.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "4s2sfe1583bhy" }, { "id": "ot-places-constantinople", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "places", "Constantinople", "schism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which city, today called Istanbul, was founded as a 'New Rome' and was the setting of the 1054 East–West Schism at Hagia Sophia?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Constantinople, now Istanbul, was the Eastern church's capital and home to Hagia Sophia, where the 1054 schism unfolded. Rome was the Western capital.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "18rhvv1jke0zv" }, { "id": "ot-places-nicaea", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "places", "Nicaea", "councils" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which town, modern İznik in Turkey, were the first (325) and seventh (787) ecumenical councils held?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Antioch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantinople" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Nicaea, modern İznik, hosted the first and seventh ecumenical councils and was where the Nicene Creed was drafted. Constantinople hosted other councils but not these two.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1y2x4551r984dt" }, { "id": "ot-places-wittenberg", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "places", "Wittenberg", "Reformation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "On which town's Castle Church door did Martin Luther post the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Wittenberg" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Geneva" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rome" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Wittenberg's Castle Church door was a customary place to post academic notices, and Luther's Theses there launched the Reformation. Geneva was Calvin's later base.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "q7tm4p1ophql9" }, { "id": "ot-docs-nicene", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "documents", "Nicene Creed", "doctrine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which creed declares the Son to be 'of the same substance' (homoousios) as the Father, settling the Arian controversy?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Confessions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Apostles' Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Nicene Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Nicene Creed, drafted in 325 and expanded in 381, uses homoousios to affirm the Son's shared substance with the Father. The Apostles' Creed is a shorter baptismal statement.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "dtl68j5jayc1" }, { "id": "ot-docs-theses", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "documents", "Ninety-Five Theses", "Reformation" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which document, spread rapidly by the printing press, attacked the sale of indulgences in 1517?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Ninety-Five Theses" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Summa Theologica" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (1517) attacked indulgences and spread via the new printing press, igniting the Reformation. The Institutes came later, systematizing Reformed theology.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "19sir7mmtwqx6" }, { "id": "ot-docs-summa", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "documents", "Summa", "philosophy" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which theological masterwork, harmonizing Christian doctrine with Aristotle, contains the 'Five Ways' arguments for the existence of God?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The City of God" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Nicene Creed" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Summa Theologica" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Summa Theologica, Aquinas's unfinished masterwork, harmonizes doctrine with Aristotle and presents the 'Five Ways.' The City of God is Augustine's work.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "9pw1i91lhvwfb" }, { "id": "ot-docs-edict", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "documents", "Edict of Milan", "toleration" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which proclamation, issued in 313, granted toleration to Christians and restored confiscated church property?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Thessalonica" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Decius's edict of universal sacrifice" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Diocletian's persecution edict" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan (313), issued by Constantine and Licinius, granted toleration and restored church property, ending official Roman persecution.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "bl86a1163458d" }, { "id": "ot-events-jerusalem", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "events", "Council of Jerusalem", "Gentiles" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which meeting, held around 49 CE, decided that Gentile converts could embrace the faith without converting to Judaism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Resurrection" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Jerusalem" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Council of Jerusalem (c. 49 CE) ruled Gentiles need not follow Jewish law such as circumcision, opening Christianity to the wider Roman world. Nicaea addressed Christ's divinity, not Gentile status.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "2z30i2bm5py2" }, { "id": "ot-events-nero", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "events", "Nero", "persecution" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The first major Roman persecution of Christians, following the Great Fire in 64 CE, occurred under which emperor?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Diocletian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Domitian" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Nero" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Constantine" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Nero blamed Christians for the Great Fire of 64 CE, launching the first major imperial persecution. Constantine later granted toleration; Diocletian persecuted much later.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1h59z7lp1qvc3" }, { "id": "ot-events-last", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "events", "sequence", "chronology" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which of these events occurred LAST?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Edict of Milan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Resurrection" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Jerusalem" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The First Council of Nicaea (325) came after the Resurrection (c. 30–33), the Council of Jerusalem (c. 49), and the Edict of Milan (313).", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1om19sj1vdbmw7" }, { "id": "ot-events-edict-year", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "events", "Edict of Milan", "dates" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In which year did Constantine and Licinius issue the Edict of Milan granting toleration to Christians?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "313" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "325" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "410" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "380" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan was issued in 313. The first Council of Nicaea met in 325, and the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1uy3n4okq5yz6" }, { "id": "ot-rem-francis", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "review", "Francis", "Franciscans" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which wealthy 13th-century Italian youth renounced everything for poverty, cared for lepers, and founded an order of friars?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Francis of Assisi" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Wesley" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Thomas Aquinas" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Francis of Assisi gave up his wealth, cared for lepers, founded the Franciscan order, and is the patron saint of ecology. Ignatius founded the Jesuits three centuries later.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1gz1s3p17urmqf" }, { "id": "ot-rem-wesley", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "review", "Wesley", "Methodism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which 18th-century English clergyman, known for open-air field preaching, led a revival that grew into the Methodist church?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Francis of Assisi" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William Seymour" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Wesley" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "John Calvin" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "John Wesley emphasized universal grace and 'social holiness' and preached in the open air; his movement became the Methodist church. Calvin led the Reformed church in Geneva.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1be5mhid1vzmo" }, { "id": "ot-rem-mlk", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "review", "MLK", "civil rights" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which 20th-century American Baptist minister grounded nonviolent resistance in the Black church until his assassination in 1968?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "John Wesley" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Martin Luther King Jr." }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Ignatius of Loyola" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "William Seymour" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, led the civil rights movement with nonviolent resistance rooted in the Black church until his assassination in 1968.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "15r167eh67x7k" }, { "id": "ot-rem-azusa", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "review", "Azusa Street", "Pentecostalism" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Los Angeles revival of 1906, led by William Seymour, is regarded as the birthplace of Pentecostalism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Azusa Street" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Bethel Bible School, Topeka" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Northampton" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Cane Ridge" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The interracial Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles (1906), led by William Seymour, is regarded as the birthplace of Pentecostalism. Canterbury is the seat of Anglicanism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "h9qolq429xo2" }, { "id": "ot-rem-confessions", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "review", "Confessions", "Augustine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which work, often called the first great autobiography of the Western world, did Augustine write around 397–400 as a prayer to God?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Summa Theologica" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Confessions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The City of God" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Augustine's Confessions, written c. 397–400 as a prayer addressed to God, recounts his youth and garden conversion. The City of God, also his, responded to the sack of Rome.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1gd1ai01xh136c" }, { "id": "ot-diagrams-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "jesus", "diagram", "ascension" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The pack's 'life of Jesus' diagram runs in a clean line. Which event does it place last, after the resurrection?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Crucifixion" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Ascension" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The baptism in the Jordan" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The birth at Bethlehem" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "The diagram traces birth, baptism, ministry, crucifixion, resurrection, and finally the Ascension — the last event in the arc. The crucifixion, baptism, and birth all come earlier in the line.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1u0gi671p4lppb" }, { "id": "ot-diagrams-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "councils", "diagram", "count" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "How many ecumenical councils does the pack's councils diagram lay out?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Seven" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Twelve" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Three" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Five" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The diagram lays out the seven ecumenical councils, spanning four centuries from Nicaea (325) to Nicaea II (787).", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1xxz61cldldlq" }, { "id": "ot-diagrams-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "councils", "diagram", "nicaea" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The councils diagram spans the years 325 to 787. Which gathering opens the sequence, in 325?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Chalcedon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Second Council of Nicaea" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The sequence opens with the First Council of Nicaea in 325 (over Arianism) and closes with Nicaea II in 787. Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon (451) fall in between.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "r7yaxud7rcio" }, { "id": "ot-orthseq-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea", "arianism", "homoousios" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At Nicaea (325) the Church rejected Arianism, declaring the Son co-equal with the Father rather than a creature. Which term did it adopt?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Pentarchy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Theotokos" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Homoousios" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Logos" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Homoousios — 'of one substance' — was Nicaea's answer to Arianism, affirming the Son shares the Father's being. Theotokos was Ephesus's term for Mary; the others are unrelated.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1m3ej3fftu45p" }, { "id": "ot-orthseq-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "chalcedon", "monophysitism", "two-natures" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Rejecting Monophysitism, the Council of Chalcedon (451) defined the person of Christ how?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "A created being subordinate to the Father" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One Person in two natures, fully divine and fully human" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "One Person with a single, merged divine nature" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Two separate persons, one divine and one human" } ], "correctIndex": 1, "explanation": "Chalcedon defined Christ as one Person in two natures, fully divine and fully human. The single merged nature was the Monophysite error; two persons was Nestorianism; a creature was Arianism.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "15sk1zt159cr1" }, { "id": "ot-orthseq-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "edict-of-milan", "sequence", "toleration" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In Christianity's rise from persecuted sect to imperial faith, what did the Edict of Milan (313) accomplish?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It fixed the books of the biblical canon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It condemned Arianism as heresy" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It granted Christians toleration and freedom to worship" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It made Christianity the empire's official religion" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Edict of Milan (313) only granted toleration. Making Christianity the official religion came later, under Theodosius in 380; condemning Arianism was Nicaea's work (325).", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "zpuit91ll4119" }, { "id": "ot-dates-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea", "date", "325" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year (CE) did the First Council of Nicaea meet?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "381" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "313" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "431" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "325" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The First Council of Nicaea met in 325 to condemn Arianism. 313 is the Edict of Milan; 381 is First Constantinople; 431 is Ephesus.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "19phwncq19j8k" }, { "id": "ot-dates-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "ephesus", "date", "431" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year (CE) was the Council of Ephesus held?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "451" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "381" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "325" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "431" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Ephesus met in 431 and upheld Mary as Theotokos. 451 is Chalcedon, 381 is First Constantinople, and 325 is First Nicaea.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1m674i73cl1dt" }, { "id": "ot-dates-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "chalcedon", "date", "451" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year (CE) did the Council of Chalcedon convene?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "451" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "553" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "381" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "431" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Chalcedon convened in 451 and defined Christ's two natures. 431 is Ephesus, 553 is Second Constantinople, and 381 is First Constantinople.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "12brzbs1vx1e7s" }, { "id": "ot-dates-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "constantinople", "date", "381" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In what year (CE) did the First Council of Constantinople meet?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "381" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "431" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "553" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "451" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "First Constantinople met in 381 and completed the doctrine of the Trinity. 431 is Ephesus, 451 is Chalcedon, and 553 is Second Constantinople.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "cs7ds9hvdat1" }, { "id": "ot-recog-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea", "arianism", "doctrine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which ecumenical council first declared the Son to be of one substance with the Father, condemning Arianism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Ephesus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Chalcedon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The First Council of Nicaea (325) settled the Arian dispute by affirming homoousios. Ephesus addressed Nestorianism, Chalcedon the two natures, and Constantinople completed the Trinity.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1dr6nhd1tg41yr" }, { "id": "ot-recog-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "chalcedon", "two-natures", "doctrine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which council defined Christ as one Person in two natures, rejecting Monophysitism?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Ephesus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Chalcedon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Second Council of Nicaea" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "Chalcedon (451) defined the two natures against Monophysitism. Ephesus handled Nestorianism, First Nicaea handled Arianism, and Nicaea II handled icons.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "7ux6ktatziaf" }, { "id": "ot-recog-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "constantinople", "trinity", "doctrine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which council, meeting in 381, completed the doctrine of the Trinity?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Ephesus" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Constantinople" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Chalcedon" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The First Council of Constantinople (381) completed the Trinitarian doctrine begun at Nicaea. Ephesus and Chalcedon dealt with Christ's person and natures.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "18v1qsa1sxigam" }, { "id": "ot-recog-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "nicaea-ii", "icons", "doctrine" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which council ended the iconoclast controversy by affirming the veneration of icons?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The First Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Chalcedon" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Second Council of Nicaea" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Council of Ephesus" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Second Council of Nicaea (787), the seventh and last, resolved the dispute over icons. First Nicaea, Chalcedon, and Ephesus each settled entirely different doctrinal questions.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "15sg6ey1hkpyni" }, { "id": "ot-lightning-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parable", "prodigal-son", "forgiveness" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "The parable of the Prodigal Son most directly illustrates which theme?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Neighborly love that crosses ethnic divisions" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The moral danger of wealth and indifference to the poor" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Humility before God over outward religious pride" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "God's radical forgiveness and welcome of the repentant" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Prodigal Son dramatizes God's radical forgiveness of the repentant. The other themes belong to the Good Samaritan, the Rich Man and Lazarus, and the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "rvcyf41imqlji" }, { "id": "ot-lightning-2", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "parable", "mustard-seed", "kingdom" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What does the parable of the Mustard Seed teach about the Kingdom of God?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "It is reserved for the wealthy and powerful" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It arrives only at the very end of time" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It belongs to the ritually pure alone" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "It begins small but grows to encompass all" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Mustard Seed teaches that the Kingdom begins tiny yet grows to encompass all — growth from small beginnings, not exclusivity or delay.", "source": { "label": "Christianity: A Complete History — Objective Test" }, "uid": "nqbxirx3vu1d" }, { "id": "ot-lightning-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "pentecost", "term", "holy-spirit" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "In the pack's terms, what is Pentecost?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The 'Roman Peace' that eased travel across the Mediterranean", "short": "'Roman Peace' eased travel" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible", "short": "Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The five patriarchal centers of the early Church", "short": "Five early-Church patriarchates" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The feast fifty days after Passover marking the Spirit's outpouring and the Church's birth", "short": "Spirit poured out, Church is born" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Pentecost is the feast fifty days after Passover when the disciples reported the Holy Spirit's outpouring — traditionally the birth of the Church. 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"holy-sites", "itemIds": [ "l12-concept-bethlehem", "l12-concept-jerusalem", "l12-concept-rome", "l12-concept-antioch", "l12-concept-constantinople", "l12-concept-nicaea", "l12-concept-wittenberg", "l12-concept-geneva", "l12-concept-canterbury", "l12-concept-azusa", "mcq-rw-l12p2-where-is-it", "ot-origin-antioch-christians", "ot-origin-antioch-gentiles", "ot-origin-jerusalem", "ot-origin-bethlehem", "ot-origin-rome", "ot-later-constantinople", "ot-later-wittenberg", "ot-later-geneva", "ot-later-pairing", "ot-modern-azusa-street", "ot-modern-canterbury-seat", "ot-modern-canterbury-anglican", "ot-modern-pentecostal-growth", "ot-modern-pairing" ] } ], "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-jesus-sites", "statement": "Match the holy sites of Jesus's life to their significance (Nazareth, Galilee, the Jordan, Golgotha, Jerusalem).", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-jesus-sites1", "d-jesus-sites2" ] }, { "id": "obj-early-hubs", "statement": "Identify the early church hubs of Rome and Alexandria.", 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{ "id": "d-hubs", "label": "Early church hubs", "itemIds": [ "l12-pair-rome-pair", "l12-pair-alexandria" ] }, { "id": "d-origin-places", "label": "Founding-era places", "requiredCorrect": 3, "itemIds": [ "l12-concept-bethlehem", "l12-concept-jerusalem", "l12-concept-rome", "l12-concept-antioch" ] }, { "id": "d-later-places", "label": "Council and Reformation cities", "requiredCorrect": 3, "itemIds": [ "l12-concept-constantinople", "l12-concept-nicaea", "l12-concept-wittenberg", "l12-concept-geneva" ] }, { "id": "d-modern-places", "label": "Modern-tradition sites", "itemIds": [ "l12-concept-canterbury", "l12-concept-azusa", "mcq-rw-l12p2-where-is-it" ] } ], "objectiveTests": [ { "id": "test-jesus-sites", "objectiveId": "obj-jesus-sites", "title": "Holy Sites of Jesus's Life", "mcqIds": [ "mcq-rw-l12p1-holy-sites", "ot-jesus-sites-jordan", "ot-jesus-sites-bethlehem", "ot-jesus-sites-nazareth", "ot-jesus-sites-galilee" ] }, { "id": "test-early-hubs", "objectiveId": "obj-early-hubs", 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"l13-pair-ecumenism", "l13-pair-theosis", "l13-pair-transubstantiation", "l13-pair-glossolalia", "mcq-rw-l13p3-numbers", "tf-f-christianity-l13-pair-ecumenism", "tf-t-christianity-l13-pair-transubstantiation", "ot-num-1", "ot-num-2", "ot-num-3", "ot-num-4", "ot-term-1", "ot-term-2", "ot-term-3", "ot-term-4", "ot-term-5" ] } ], "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-bible-reading", "statement": "Define the biblical canon and hermeneutics — which books count and how they are read.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-canon", "d-hermeneutics" ] }, { "id": "obj-eschatology", "statement": "Define eschatology and the Parousia (the Second Coming).", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-eschatology", "d-parousia" ] }, { "id": "obj-key-documents", "statement": "Recognize the defining documents of Christianity — creeds, the Theses, the Summa, the Institutes, the City of God, the Confessions, and the Edict of Milan.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-documents1", "d-documents2" ] }, { "id": "obj-key-numbers", "statement": "Recall the 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"cz-christianity-l14-fact-diagram-councils", "mcq-c-christianity-l14-fact-diagram-councils", "ot-diagrams-1", "ot-diagrams-2", "ot-diagrams-3", "fi-ot-diagrams-3" ] }, { "id": "l14p2-right-or-wrong", "title": "Right or Wrong", "order": 2, "blurb": "Orthodoxy or heresy? 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"l2-def-kingdom-of-god", "l2-def-beatitudes", "l2-def-golgotha", "l3-def-pentecost", "l3-def-pentarchy", "l3-def-justification", "l3-def-body-of-christ", "mcq-rw-l14p6-term-drill", "ot-lightning-3" ] } ], "objectives": [ { "id": "obj-diagrams", "statement": "Read the pack's summary diagrams — the arc of Jesus's life and the seven ecumenical councils.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-diagram-jesus", "d-diagram-councils" ] }, { "id": "obj-orthodoxy-sequence", "statement": "Identify which view won at the councils and the sequence of Christianity's rise to imperial power.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-right-sequence" ] }, { "id": "obj-council-dates", "statement": "Recall the year of each of the seven ecumenical councils.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-dates1", "d-dates2" ] }, { "id": "obj-council-recognition", "statement": "Recognize the ecumenical councils by the doctrine each settled.", "demonstrationIds": [ "d-council-concepts" ] }, { "id": "obj-lightning-review", "statement": "Rapidly recall pack 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"mcq-c-christianity-l14-fact-diagram-councils", "ot-diagrams-1", "ot-diagrams-2", "ot-diagrams-3" ] }, { "id": "test-orthodoxy-sequence", "objectiveId": "obj-orthodoxy-sequence", "title": "Which View Won & The Rise", "mcqIds": [ "mcq-rw-l14p2-right-or-wrong", "mcq-rw-l14p3-sequence", "ot-orthseq-1", "ot-orthseq-2", "ot-orthseq-3" ] }, { "id": "test-council-dates", "objectiveId": "obj-council-dates", "title": "Council Dates", "mcqIds": [ "mcq-rw-l14p4-council-dates", "ot-dates-1", "ot-dates-2", "ot-dates-3", "ot-dates-4" ] }, { "id": "test-council-recognition", "objectiveId": "obj-council-recognition", "title": "Councils by Doctrine", "mcqIds": [ "mcq-rw-l14p2-right-or-wrong", "ot-recog-1", "ot-recog-2", "ot-recog-3", "ot-recog-4" ] }, { "id": "test-lightning-review", "objectiveId": "obj-lightning-review", "title": "Lightning Essentials", "mcqIds": [ "mcq-rw-l14p5-lightning", "mcq-rw-l14p6-term-drill", "ot-lightning-1", "ot-lightning-2", "ot-lightning-3" ] } ] } ] }