Deck 11: Speech and Grace in Protestantism

Question 1

In what ways can speech be meaningful?

A) The speaker calls up associations with speech.
B) The listener calls up associations with speech.
C) Speech can directly accomplish something.
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which group introduced the idea that everyday speech by ordinary people can be divinely inspired?

A) Protestants
B) Catholics
C) Muslims
D) Hindus

Answer 2

A

Question 3

For Catholics, sacraments create connection to God. What creates this same connection for Protestants?

A) Holy Communion
B) faith
C) reading scripture
D) attending church

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following defines universalism in some religious beliefs?

A) Individuals have spiritual rights to hear God's words regardless of the authority structure of the church.
B) All humans will go to heaven no matter what their faith.
C) Religions are the same everywhere at the core.
D) none of the above

Question 5

Which world view included the idea of divine grace that is visited upon humans rather than achieved by them?

A) predestination
B) universalism
C) Hellenism
D) Lutherism

Question 6

What did Max Weber say was the effect of the "Protestant ethic"?

A) It spurred on modern capitalism.
B) It had psychological consequences.
C) It made people throw themselves into unsatisfying work for the glory of God.
D) all of the above

Question 7

What were Jean and John Comaroff's findings about how Methodist missionaries in South Africa measured their own effectiveness?

A) They measured it by the number of converts.
B) They measured it by whether or not they were changing natives' way of behaving.
C) They measured it by how much they were liked by the local population.
D) They measured it by donor money that they saw as God's direct, divine approval of their work.

Question 8

What have researchers found out about the physiological states of Holiness church worshippers in the southern US who participate in extreme activities such as snake handling or fire-walking?

A) Their brain states are close to those of meditators.
B) They experience endorphin highs.
C) There is some degree of dissociation.
D) all of the above

Question 9

Why has there only recently been an anthropological turn toward studying Protestant faiths?

A) Many anthropologists have regarded them as less "authentic" forms of culture.
B) Anthropologists are usually Protestant and do not want to study themselves.
C) Anthropologists are usually atheist and have a low regard for Protestantism.
D) Protestantism was actually one of the first practices anthropologists studieD)

Question 10

What did Joel Robbins' study find Christianity failed to offer to Urapim people in Papua New Guinea?

A) a new sense of ethics
B) liberation from taboos
C) a template for positive social action
D) all of the above