Writers
Who wrote the Leatherstocking Tales and Last of the Mohicans? Practiced liturgical Christian worship
James Fenimore Cooper
The progression of beliefs from Calvinism to Transcendentalism revealed a shift from ________ values to ________ values?
Puritan values to Humanistic values
What cult was founded by Joseph Smith and his special revelation, denies the trinity, and requires special undergarments?
Mormons
What is the belief that God chooses who he saves with no effort on our part?
Calvinism
What is a religious sect based around a personality and their revelation to live in a specific way. Rejects Christ and the Bible as only authority.
A cult
Who led the first camp meeting revival in 1801, preaching "No creed but Christ."?
Barton Stone
What is the belief that God, nature, and man are all one. Man is good, peaceful living solves everything.
Transcendentalism
What is the belief that emphasizes man’s responsibility and claims that he has a completely free will to accept or reject God's salvation?
Arminianism
What heresy which states that God and the universe are the same thing? de Tocqueville felt Americans were prone to believe in this.
Pantheism
Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle?
Washington Irving
Charismatic revival preacher who believed Christians could achieve perfection here, lose their salvation, and shamed people for not professing faith?
Charles Finney
Which religious group was started by Ann Lee,believed God was male and female, had strict rules about celibacy and had three members as of 2009?
The Shakers.
What movement believed mankind could become perfect in this world and create God's kingdom on earth?
The Holiness Movement
What group of artists were influenced by romanticism, depicting the West as exotic but also evidence of the God of creation?
The Hudson River School
Who invented the detective fiction genre? Wrote dark, melancholy stories and poems
Edgar Allen Poe
What was period of revivalism from about 1795 to 1835 called?
The Second Great Awakening
Had the motto "We are about the religion of Jesus, not the religion about Jesus"?
The Unitarians
Name of the movement where people lived in a commune, practiced "complex marriages" and practiced religious socialism?
The Oneida Community
Quoted by Hosea, what seems to provide a solution for man's depravity by man-centered means? (earned salvation)
Idols of mercy
Who was the writer from MA who rejected Christian faith but not Puritan values? Believed human love would save the world
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A. Sahel Nettleton
Which founding father and deist wrote his own version of the Bible titled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth?
Thomas Jefferson
Which cult was started by Mary Baker, stated spiritual healing = true faith? She opened "Reading Rooms" through the nation to promote her book, rejected modern medicine.
Christian Scientist
Why did so many heresies and cults try to reform culture?
Because ppl rejected the gospel and tried to explain or solve the problems of society with man made solutions