Ch. 35 Flashcards
What are the two classes of religion?
Polytheism and Monotheism
What is the belief of many gods?
Polytheism
What is the belief that there is only one God?
Monotheism
What is the most distinctive of all Christian doctrines?
The doctrine of the Trinity
Who rejected the Nicene Creed?
The Socinians
Who rejected infant baptism?
The Baptists
What 3 religions departed by placing a one-sided emphasis upon Christian life at the expense of Christian doctrine?
Quakers
Pietists
Moravians
Who departed in one point of the Church government?
The Congregationalists
Who departed from one of the historic doctrines of the Church?
The Arminians
This doctrine simply means that God is really God.
Augustine’s doctrine of predestination
This doctrine simply means that God and not man decides man’s destiny.
Calvin’s doctrine of election
Who believes that the issue of life and death lies not in God’s but in man’s hand. Their doctrine of man’s free will teaches that man has the deciding part in his salvation.
Arminianism
Where did Socinianism received its name from?
Laelius Socinus and his nephew, Faustus Socinus
What caused Laelius Socinus to give serious thought to the doctrine of the Trinity?
The death of Servetus at the stake
What book set forth the basic teachings of Socinianism and was the work of Faustus Socinus?
Racovian Catechism