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When was the treatise that allowed a congregation to elect or remove a minister?
1523
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Who added the election of laymen to church government?
Calvin
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Who added synods to church government?
The Huguenots
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What were Luther's followers advised to use when governing worldly affairs?
reason
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What political mixture did Calvin prefer?
aristocracy and democracy
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What is the term for checks and balances in a political system?
separation of powers
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Who paved the way for modern democracy to emerge?
Calvin
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Who was allowed to teach a liberal Bible interpretation?
Hugo Grotius
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What philosophers were given asylum?
Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle
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Whose democracies were created by Protestants?
the English and the American democracies
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Other than the U.S., to what colonies did the British export their democratic beliefs?
Australia, New Zealand, and India
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What democratic principles were followed by the Plymouth Colony?
self-rule and separation of powers
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What group believed that democracy was the will of God?
Congregationalists
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What other group in America practiced self-rule and separation of powers?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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What group initiated the right to religious freedom?
Protestants
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Where did Luther refuse to change his beliefs?
Worms
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What persecuted groups followed the separation of church and state?
Anabaptists and Huguenots
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Who wrote about religious freedom in the early 17th century?
John Smyth and Thomas Helwys
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How many American Protestants supported independence in America?
The great majority
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What group popularized early Protestant teachings about separation of church and state?
Enlightenment thinkers
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What did John Locke use as a basis for his political beliefs?
a set of Protestant Christian assumptions
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Whose ideas influenced the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
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What Rights do the Declaration of Independence consider unalienable?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
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What scripture did Locke use as a reference for equality?
Genesis 1, 26-28
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When did Prussia stop torture?
1740
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When did Britain end slavery?
1834
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Who were the first men to make large contributions to international law?
Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf
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Who founded the Red Cross?
Henry Dunant
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What international law was Henry Dunant mostly responsible for?
The Geneva Convention
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Who first introduced social insurance programs?
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
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What did Bismarck consider social insurance programs to be?
practical Christianity
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What social reform movements were Protestants working toward in the nineteen century?
the abolition of slavery, prison reforms, and woman suffrage
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What country started programs that led to the welfare state?
Germany
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What area copied Bismarck's social programs the most?
the Western world
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What did John Milton do for world literature?
enrich
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Samuel Taylor is listed as enriching what?
World literature
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What women writers were listed as contributors to world literature?
Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë
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Edgar Allen Poe added value to literature in what area?
World
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The Roman Catholic Church considers Protestant denominations to be what?
ecclesial communities or specific faith-believing communities
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What is lacking in Protestant priesthood, according to the Roman Catholic Church?
no sacramental ministerial priesthood
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What does the Roman Catholic Church say is not comparable to their sacraments and dogmas?
ordinances and doctrines
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What other Church shares the Roman Catholic view on Protestant churches?
Eastern Orthodox
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What is lacking in Protestantism, according to the Roman Catholic Church?
true apostolic succession
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Who were Magisterial reformers?
Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldrych Zwingli
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What institution did Martin Luther believe he was reforming?
the Roman Catholic Church
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Instead of a visible church, what did Protestants believe there was?
a spiritual, invisible, and hidden church
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When did the idea of a hidden church begin?
in the early days of the Protestant Reformation
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What church did the Reformers claim had left them?
the Roman Catholic Church
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The Reformed churches based their beliefs about ecclesiastical organization on what movement?
Conciliar
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Who supported the Magisterial Reformation?
the ruling authorities
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What are the doctrines of the Reformed churches called?
the five solas
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What ecumenical council did the Reformed churches reject?
the Council of Trent
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What type of character became central to religious unity in Reformed churches?
invisible
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What group has been unsuccessful in creating a unified church since 1948?
the World Council of Churches
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What conference was held in 1910?
the Edinburgh Missionary Conference
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What churches have been strongly engaged in the ecumenical movement?
Orthodox
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What have Orthodox churches condemned the perception of?
watering down Orthodox doctrine
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What types of churches have had rapidly declining memberships?
united churches
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If done properly, what Protestant practice does the Catholic Church recognize?
baptism
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What is the only other sacrament of the Protestants that the Catholic Church recognizes?
marriage
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Who can become ordained to the Catholic priesthood after a period of study?
Protestant ministers who become Catholics
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Protestants who want full communion with the Catholic Church do not have to be what?
re-baptized
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Why does the Catholic Church not recognize the ordination of Protestant ministers?
the lack of apostolic succession and the disunity from Catholic Church
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What document was signed in 1999?
the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
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Who rejects the statement signed in 1999?
Confessional Lutherans
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Who adopted the Joint Declaration in 2006?
delegates to the World Methodist Conference
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The Joint Declaration supposedly resolves the conflict which originally led to what movement?
the Protestant Reformation
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What two groups originally signed the Joint Declaration?
Lutheran World Federation and Catholic Church
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How many Protestants are there in the world?
more than 900 million
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What is the total population of Christians in the world?
approximately 2.4 billion
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Approximately how much of the world's population are Protestant (in fractions)?
more than one tenth
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What area only had about 2 million Protestants in 2010?
Middle East-North Africa
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What area had the largest Protestant population in 2010?
Sub-Saharan Africa
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In what European areas is Protestantism still the most practiced religion?
the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom
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In 2012, what percentage of the EU was thought to be Protestant?
12%
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In what countries is Protestantism one of the most popular (but not THE most popular) religions?
Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary
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The Pew Research Center estimated Protestants to be what percentage of Europe's Christian population in 2010?
17.8%
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What area was once the site of a significant pre-reformation movement, but now only has a small number of Protestants?
Czech Republic
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Where has Protestantism spread quickly since the 1900's?
Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America
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When did much of the spread of Protestantism occur in the 20th century?
after World War II
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What percentage of Anglicans were in the UK in 1910?
79%
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In 2010, what percentage of Anglicans were said to be in Africa?
59%
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In 2010, what country had more Protestants than both the UK and Germany together?
Brazil
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What is Brazil's capital?
Brasília
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What region of Brazil is Brasilia in?
center-western
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What is Brasilia's GDP per capita in US dollars?
US$36,175
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What is the population of Brasilia's metro area?
2,556,149
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When was Brasilia founded?
April 21, 1960
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How many administrative regions does the Federal District have?
31
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What is Brasilia's proper city population?
209,926
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What does Brasilia's metro area consist of?
the Federal District
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Which World Cup did Brasilia host?
2014
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Which Confederations Cup did Brasilia host?
2013
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When did Kubitschek become President of Brazil?
1956
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When did Kubitschek leave office?
1961
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Who ordered Brasilia be built?
Juscelino Kubitschek
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How many people competed to be Brasilia's urban planner?
5550
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When was Brasilia inaugurated?
April 21, 1960
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When did Brazil pass a new Constitution?
1988
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What rights did Brasilia gain in 1988?
to elect its Governor, and a District Assembly
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