Islam means
submission and surrender
Which of the following does NOT necessarily describe a Muslim?
Not all Muslims are arabs
In size, Islam is
the fastest growing and second largest
Which person form the Hebrew Bible is NOT considered part of Islam's genealogy?
Ishmael-Sarah
Which of the following is NOT muslim belief?
Original sin
The disaster," as it is known in Muslim literature and consciousness that triggered a period of doubt and self-examination in the 1970s was about
loosing major territory; Jerusalem `
Which of the following is NOT a holy city to Muslims
Cario
In America and Europe, Islam is
the fastest growing
The word "jihad" means
struggle and to strive
As Christians look to Jesus and the New Testament and Jews look to Moses and the Torah, Muslims look to
Muhammed and the Quran
Which of the following was NOT condemned by Muhammad?
earning profit
Which of the following describes pre-Islamic Arabian society and religion
polytheistic; tribal society
Muhammad saw his relationship to the region of Islam as that of
A prophet and reformer
What means did Muhammad use to defeat the Meccans and unite the tribes of Arabia under the banner of Islam?
Political; force, diplomacy
Which of the following was role played by Muhammad in the early Muslim community?
All of the above
Sunnis and Shiahs split due to
struggle of power
The proportions of Sunnis and Shiahs are
Shiahs:15% and Sunnis:85%
Which of the following describes Orthodox Christianity?
mystical emphasis
Historians have pointed out that, at the time; the only ones with the power to cause Jesus' crucifixion were the
Romans
According to the text, the three people most responsible for the shape of Western Christianity are
Paul, Augustine, and Jesus
For centuries, Christians turned to which of the following as a model of conversion and spiritual piety?
Augstine's Confessions
The ruling that Paul won that was decisive for the growing of the Nazarene movement among the gentiles was about
circumcision
One way that Augustine's defined "grace" is
making possible one cannot do
Which of the following is characteristics of Augustine's "two cities
City of God and City of Man should work together
The premodern religious movement that provided the bridge of salvation between the ancient world and the modern word was
Bendictian Monks
Which of the following does NOT apply to Paul?
did not contribute writing ( he did)
During the Middle-Ages, the sixth to fourteenth centuries, who was educated and therefore could read?
The rich, and the monks
Outside the church there was no salvation" refers to
refers to the priests being the only ones who could accept money
Which sacrament was adaptation of the Jewish blessing of the bread and wine at the Passover meal?
Bucharest, communion
Why was December 25th chosen as the birthday of Jesus?
Pegan holiday
Rulers of church and state would most likely turn to this work as a model for the political order
City of God ; Augustines
The first serious reform movement in the church was
moastinism
In all the major religions, "mysticism" implies that
...
When Christianity waged war on Islam during the Middle Ages it was called
crusade
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the creation of corporations that mar the beginnings of secularization of institutions?
no hierarchy --> D
The roots of the split between faith and science began with
Normalization separated faith and reason
Which of the following describes Martin Luther's declaration and became the central doctrine of the Protestant Reformation
Faith and scripture
Since the Holocaust, the majority of Jew worldwide live in what two centuries
America and Isreal
What for of Judaism provided the expected norms for Jewish life from the sixth century CE until the emergence of modern forms of Judaism in the nineteenth century?
Rabi's
Of all the great world religions, in size Judaism is the
Smallest
According the Judaism, the ideal of life is
living in harmony and following God's will
According to Judaism, the way of life that God gave Israel to follow is embodied in the
613 commandments
The Jewish movement that parallels Christianity's fundamentalist response to modernity is called
ultra orthodoxy
Which movement would be most likely to accommodate the most aspects of modern secular life?
reform
Which movement would be least likely to accommodate the most aspects of modern secular life?
Orthodoxy
For Reform Jews the essence of Judaism is
ethics
The late twentieth-century ultra-orthodoxy movement sought to
recapture
the influence of the ultra-orthodoxy since the mid-1970's has
increased
The two constellations of events that have shaped modern Judaism above all else are the
the holocaust and the enlightenment, founding Israel
Which theologian modeled the way for the entrepreneurs of the new capitalists era he helped create?
Calvin