CHHI 660 Quiz From Denominational Growth

CHHI 660 Quiz: From Denominational Growth to Theological Challenges

1. What happened to the Jewish population in America between 1900 and 1950?
2. Who was found guilty in a Tennessee county courtroom of teaching the theory of evolution in a public high school?
3. Who was a leading translator and popularizer of Zen Buddhism in the United States in the early twentieth century?
4. Theodor Herzl contended that the only way Jews would experience peace was if:
5. Which of the “eight leading denominational families” in the United States (as mentioned in the beginning of chapter thirteen of the Gaustad and Schmidt text) is the youngest?
6. Where is the central location of The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
7. Holiness and Pentecostal churches promote speaking in tongues.
8. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, what were the populations of America’s main religious groups? Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics
9. Who claimed that “religion is the opiate of the masses”?
10. The results of the 1939 Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion turned out to favor:
11. Modernists believe if the Kingdom of God will come, it will come as a social movement of enlightened people.
12. Match: Harry Emerson Fosdick. Isaac M. Halderman, J. Gresham Machen
13. Match: Isaac M. Haldeman, Cyrus I. Scofield, Shailer Matthews, William Miller
14. Match: Billy Sunday, James Gibbons. John Augustus Zahm, Lyman Abbott, T. DeWitt Talmage
15. Match: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Carl F.H. Henry, Mordecai Kaplan, Reinhold Niebuhr