Guided Reading for The Western Traditions.

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The symbol (*) after a question indicates that these might be used for longer essays in your quizzes.

1. What does the term ‘angel’ mean in the Biblical tradition?

 

2. What do the terms diablos, Satan, Ba’al-zabul, and Ba’al-zabub actually mean?

 

3. What proportion of the European Population was wiped out by the Black Death?

 

4. What is the distinction between a mortal and a venial sin and from where does it come?

 

5. What was the Malleus Maleficorum?

 

6. What is reflected in today’s use of traditional gowns in academic processions?

 

7. When did the Roman Emperor close the Platonic Academy in Athens?

 

8. Who expanded Augustine’s doctrine of scripture as the source of authority?

 

9. Who is supposed to have said ‘I believe so that I may understand?’ (Credo ut intelligam)

 

10. Why is Anselm’s notion of sin and punishment said to be ‘juridical?’

 

11. How did Aristotle’s thought reach Western Europe?

 

12. Who was the greatest of the Aristotelian scholastics?

 

13. What were the ‘five ways’ of Thomas Aquinas? (*)

 

14. What was Thomas Aquinas’ attitude to heretics?

 

15. What is Thomism?

 

16. What is ‘mysticism’ in this context? (*)

 

17. Name three male mediaeval mystics.

 

18. Name three female mediaeval mystics.

 

19. What happened within Christianity just as it was poised for global expansion? (*)

 

20. Who were Wyclif and Hus and what did they both want?

 

21. What were indulgences?

 

22. What and when was the diet of Worms?

 

23. What did Luther emphasize?

 

24. What specific technology contributed to the Protestant reformation? (*)

 

25. What did Luther take as authoritative? What is a consequence of this?

 

26. What is illustrated by the debate between Luther and Zwingli over the interpretation of the Eucharist?

 

27. What has been the legacy of the Protestant reformation down to the present day?

 

28. What are the three main ‘establishments’ of the sixteenth-century reformation? (*)

 

29. Where did Lutheran Christianity become the State Church?

 

30. What was the difference between the Reformation in Germany and in Britain?

 

31. Who was Thomas Cranmer?

 

32. How was the Reformation reflected in British politics in the Parliament?

 

33. How is the Church of England known in the U.S.?

 

34. Who was the Reformation’s dominant intellectual leader?

 

35. What name is often used to refer to the Reformed Churches?

 

36. What term is used to refer to the Reformed Church in England and Scotland? What does this mean?

 

37. In what Asian country did the Reformed Church become a sizable minority (about one third of the population)?

 

38. What was the Anabaptist attitude to political institutions and structures?

 

39. Who was Menno Simmons?

 

40. What branch of the Mennonites practices traditionalism comparable to the Hasidic Jews?

 

41. Why does Oxtoby wonder whether it is really appropriate to count Unitarians in a survey of Christianity?

 

42. Whose poetry provides a well-known literary example of the Puritan ideal?

 

43. What does Max Weber explore in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?

 

44. When and over what did the British Puritans and Presbyterians find themselves in substantial agreement?