Writers
People & Preaching
Religion
Religion pt 2
Potpourri
100

Who wrote the Leatherstocking Tales and Last of the Mohicans? Practiced liturgical Christian worship

James Fenimore Cooper

100

The progression of beliefs from Calvinism to Transcendentalism revealed a shift from ________ values to ________ values?

Puritan values to Humanistic values

100

What cult was founded by Joseph Smith and his special revelation, denies the trinity, and requires special undergarments?

Mormons

100

What is the belief that God chooses who he saves with no effort on our part?

Calvinism

100

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

200
Who was the leader of the transcendentalists?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
200

Who led the first camp meeting revival in 1801, preaching "No creed but Christ."?

Barton Stone

200

What is the belief that God, nature, and man are all one. Man is good, peaceful living solves everything.

Transcendentalism

200

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

200

What heresy which states that God and the universe are the same thing?  de Tocqueville felt Americans were prone to  believe in this.

Pantheism

300

Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle?

Washington Irving

300

Charismatic revival preacher who believed Christians could achieve perfection here, lose their salvation, and shamed people for not professing faith?

Charles Finney

300

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.

300

What movement believed mankind could become perfect in this world and create God's kingdom on earth?

The Holiness Movement

300

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

400

Who invented the detective fiction genre? Wrote dark, melancholy stories and poems

Edgar Allen Poe

400

What was period of revivalism from about 1795 to 1835 called?

The Second Great Awakening

400

Had the motto "We are about the religion of Jesus, not the religion about Jesus"?

The Unitarians

400

Name of the movement where people lived in a commune, practiced "complex marriages" and practiced religious socialism?

The Oneida Community

400

Quoted by Hosea, what seems to provide a solution for man's depravity by man-centered means? (earned salvation)

Idols of mercy

500

Who was the writer from MA who rejected Christian faith but not Puritan values? Believed human love would save the world

Nathaniel Hawthorne

500
Presbyterian revival preacher who lived among the people he preached to. Taught personal holiness and discipleship.

A. Sahel Nettleton

500

Which founding father and deist wrote his own version of the Bible titled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth?

Thomas Jefferson

500

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

500

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