Deck 21: Protesting Against the Protestants: Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation

Question 1

What did the Magisterial Reformers affirm?

A) There should be a separation of church and state
B) Infants should not be baptized
C) It is proper to utilize government to advance church priorities
D) The Pope has authority over governmental issues

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Anabaptists take their name from:

A) the practice of infant baptism
B) the refusal to be baptized
C) to be rebaptized as adults
D) baptism by immersion rather sprinkling

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Schleitheim Confession:

A) asserted the need for infant baptism
B) upheld the role of government officials in church matters
C) gave seven declarations of Anabaptist belief
D) was a direct response to the Synod of Dort

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Zwickau prophets were:

A) counter-reformation advocates
B) a special envoy established by the Pope to counter the Protestant Reformers
C) a small band of Radical Reformers
D) Calvininstic mystics

Question 5

Which of the following was not one of the Anabaptist leaders?

A) Thomas Münstzer
B) Balthasar Humbaier
C) Menno Simons
D) Ulrich Zwingli

Question 6

Which of the following is not a major theme of Anabaptist belief and practice?

A) Believers' baptism
B) Necessity of a personal relationship with God
C) Monergism
D) Communal nature of Christian life

Question 7

Which of the following are not Anabaptist groups?

A) Jesuits
B) Mennonites
C) Amish
D) Hutterites

Question 8

Dirk Willems was typical of many Anabaptist reformers in that he was:

A) never baptized
B) martyred
C) a university professor
D) a regional governor

Question 9

The Münster Rebellion was a/an:

A) meeting at which Anabaptists broke away from other Protestant groups
B) organized revolt against the Pope
C) calamity in which many Anabaptists were killed
D) battle in which Mennonites imprisoned and persecuted Calvinist leaders

Question 10

Socinianism:

A) denied the deity of Christ
B) affirmed the two natures of Christ
C) understood Christ's death to be satisfaction paid to God
D) advocated Trinitarian theology