Q1. Who were the leading reformers and what were they protesting against?
Q2. What were the four basic principles on which the 16th century Reformation was built? Please describe. How were the first three principles a criticism against the Roman Catholic Church? Please elaborate.
Q3. Contrast the different ways in which Martin Luther and John Calvin perceived their reformed churches?
Q4. How did Henry VIII advance the reformation movement in England.
Q5. Even though Elizabeth I tried to find a middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism, which groups were unhappy and why?
Q6. What is the difference between a church and a denomination?
Q7. Why did the Pilgrims, a group of Separatist Puritans, leave Holland for New England on the Mayflower?
Q8. Even though Protestantism, as practiced by the Pilgrims and others, was very strict in their practices, gradually Liberalism crept into their belief system.
Q9. What were the religious beliefs of liberalism as expressed in American Protestantism?
Q10. How did the Baptists pave the way for the establishment of the First Amendment rights relating to freedom of religion?
Q11. What is deism and Freemasonry? What did Freemasonry have to do with the American Revolution?
Q12. Please contrast the views of predestination (John Calvin) and arminianism (Jacobus Arminius).
Q13. What is the Modernist point of view with regard to: God, mankind, heaven, and Jesus?