Church History

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Who emphasized a pure church and the immediate power of the Holy Spirit

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Montanus

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Who was the chief scholarly representative of Montanism as it appeared in the Western church

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Tertullian

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declared the Montanus's basic orthodoxy and that of his followers was not questioned, but that the movement went astray in adopting the view that God was giving prophetic messages and that prophecy was impossible without somnambulism and tances

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Frederic Farrar

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Which group took a strict view and declared that those who had denied the Lord should not be reinstated into church fellowship

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Novatian

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Which group was referred as the "antipope" of the "Puritan party" within the church

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Novatian

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Who was a bishop of Carthage who wrote one of his best-known works, "The Unity of the Catholic Church"

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Cyprian

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Who stated, "The authority of the bishops forms a unity, of which each holds his part in its totality"

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Cyprian

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Who argued strongly against any schism in the church

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Cyprian

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Which two people were committed to the concept that church purity is extremely important.

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Donatus and Majorinus

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Which group were biblicists and had a high view of Scripture

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Donatists

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Which group believed that every church which tolerated unworthy members in its bosom was itself polluted by the communion with them and it thus ceased to be a true Christian church?

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Donatists

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Which group believed that the church had fallen in the days of Constantine and that it was their duty to reconstitute the church, to begin again to establish it on earth?

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Donatists

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Which group declared that the holiness of the church is intrinsic and does not reside in its ministers or members

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Catholic Party

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Which group believed that the true church was to be a fellowship of the saints, separate from false churches, separate from the state?

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Donatists

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Which group believed that people should have a personal relationship to the Lord in order to be members of a church?

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Donatists

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Which group believed that the union between church and state effected under the Roman emperor Constantine was detrimental to the church's spiritual well-being?

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Donatists

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Who gives priority to the holiness of the church?

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Separatists

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Who gives priority to the unity of the church?

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Augustine

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Who argued that the true church possessed episcopal succession?

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Augustine

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Who believed that severance from the visible Catholic Church meant severance from the true church?

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Augustine

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Who deduced that from the parables of the wheat and the tares that until the end of the earth we should not be separate from the sinners?

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Augustine

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Which group were dualists who believed in two eternal principles in the universe: good and evil?

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Manicheans

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Which group believed in in two eternal forces, Light and Darkness, that struggled for dominance?

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Dualists

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Which group emphasized the contrast between the spirituality of the church of Christ, preserved in the apostolic succession of the Good Men and the actuality of the Roman organization, described as an institution of the world and its evil maker?

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Albigense

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Which group believed that Christ had not instituted the established church, whose teaching about images, saints, infant baptism...were false?

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Bogomils

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Which group believed that the flesh was intrinsically evil, and that the birth is the imprisonment of the spirit in a corporeal body?

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Bogomils

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Which groups name is thought to have been derived either from Paul of Samasota or the apostle Paul?

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Paulicians

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Which group was often accused of being Manichean but were really men who were disgusted with the doctrines and ceremonies of human invention, and desirous of returning to the apostolic doctrine and practice?

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Paulicians

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Which group was persecuted under Empress Theodora?

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Paulicians

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Who was a priest who appeared in southern France and opposed the Catholic Church and was burned to death about 1126?

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Peter of Bruys

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Whose followers were called Petrobusians?

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Peter of Bruys

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Who was a Benedictine monk who had considerable preaching skills?

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Henry of Lausanne

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Which group believed in believer's baptism only, the uselessness of church edifices and consecrated altars, the necessity of breaking up crosses and burning them, the meaninglessness of the Mass, and the powerlessness of prayers, alms, and other good works to help the dead?

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Petrobusians

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Which group was condemned as heretics by the Synod of Toulouse?

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Petrobusians

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Who was increasingly vocal in his criticism of papal corruption, but didn't want to break with the church

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John of Rokycana

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Who was not formally trained in theology, but had a good grasp of it and exhibited leadership abilities?

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Peter Chelcicky

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Who viewed themselves as the continuation of a long line of witnesses to the truth that had come through the centuries?

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Waldensians

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Who had a life-changing spiritual experience, renounced his materialistic ways, and began to preach Christ?

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Peter Waldo

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Whose followers were called "Poor Men"?

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Peter Waldo

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Which group believed that theirs was the true Church, and that of the Pope was but a hose of lies, whose excommunication was not to be regarded and whose decrees were not to be obeyed?

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Waldensians

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Which group had a complete organization, consisting of bishops, priests, and deacons?

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Waldensians

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Who began to reject various teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and his followers were called Lollards?

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John Wycliffe

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Who had the bible translated into English and was distributed far and wide?

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John Wycliffe

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Who was a professor at the university that was greatly influenced by Wycliffe?

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John Huss

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Which movement arose during the sixteenth century at the time of the Reformation?

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Anabaptist

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How many different groups of Anabaptist are there?

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five

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Who became convinced of certain segments of Biblical truth and began to preach them with conviction in the cathedral in Zurich?

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Ulrich Zwingli

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Which two people believed that if the Scriptures taught something, it should be obeyed--regardless of what the city council thought?

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Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz

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Who was a strong opponent of Anabaptism?

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Melanchthon

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Which group believed strongly that the Bible was the final authority for the believer's faith and practice?

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Anabaptist

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Which group preferred to make a radical break with fifteen hundred years of history and culture if necessary rather than to break with the New Testament?

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Anabaptist

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Which group believed in the importance of baptism as a personal confession of one's faith in Christ, as a free, conscious act of the part of a person who is knowledgeable about his or her actions?

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Anabaptist

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Which group believed strongly in the purity of the church, it was important to them that impure persons--persons who were not living like Christians should be barred from church fellowship?

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Anabaptist

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Which group believed that the invisible church is inclusive of all true believers--Anabaptist or Reformers?

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Reformers

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Which group defended stubbornly the concept that both believers and unbelievers are included and that it is wrong to seek to correct that situation?

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Reformers

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Which group believed that infants should be baptized--Reformers or Anabaptist?

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Reformers

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Who was willing to assume that everyone in Zurich was, in some sense, a Christian?

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Zwingli

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Which group believed that the emphasis of the New Testament is upon the church as visible in local congregations?

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Anabaptist

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Who rejected the concept of the established church, "replacing the monopoly of the authoritarian and compulsory state church with independent, voluntary congregations?

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Anabaptist

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Which group held tenaciously to the doctrine of the separation of church and state?

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Anabaptist

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Who thought that the ruin of the church began with the acceptance of infant baptism?

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Pilgrim Marpeck

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Who wrote in a letter, "Christ must suffer more in his members...Our shepherds are furious and enraged against us that they rail at us from the pulpit, calling us boys and Satans angels of light...Do not act, teach, or set up anything according to human notions, your or that of others, and that which is set up, abolish. Set up and teach only the clear Word and rites of God"

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Conrad Grebel