Chapter 24

Question 1

What was the cause of the dissolution that threatened to destroy the very roots of Western civilization?

Answer 1

liberalism

Question 2

Who is someone who desires freedom from something or freedom to do something?

Answer 2

liberal

Question 3

What is the desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially those of the Scriptures?

Answer 3

modern liberalism

Question 4

What is the principle or practice of conserving established tradition or institutions and opposing changes in them?

Answer 4

conservatism

Question 5

What has been the most powerful conservative force through the ages?

Answer 5

the Bible

Question 6

What is the philosophy that states that nothing can be known except observable scientific “facts”?

Answer 6

positivism

Question 7

Who developed positivism?

Answer 7

Auguste Camte

Question 8

What is the idea that neither mankind nor nature obeys a superior will other than their own immutable “laws”?

Answer 8

sociology

Question 9

What is the study of the mind?

Answer 9

psychology

Question 10

Who formulated the system of psychoanalysis?

Answer 10

Sigmund Freud

Question 11

What is the philosophy that claims that subconscious physical drives or irrational fears determine a man’s actions?

Answer 11

psychoanalysis

Question 12

What is the philosophy that denies man’s sinful nature by reducing man to the status of an animal or a machine?

Answer 12

behaviour philosophy

Question 13

Who developed behavioral psychology?

Answer 13

Ivan Pavlov

Question 14

What is the philosophy that actions should be judged by results, not morality?

Answer 14

pragmatism

Question 15

What claims that there is no truth or reality?

Answer 15

existentalism

Question 16

Who taught that all man can do is take a “leap of faith”?

Answer 16

Soren Kierkegaard

Question 17

Who declared that “God is dead”?

Answer 17

Fredrich Nietzche

Question 18

What American educator advocated progressive education?

Answer 18

John Dewey

Question 19

What type of education prevailed in Western civilization and emphasized God and truth?

Answer 19

traditional education

Question 20

What is the belief that matter of morality should be based on consideration of the well-being of mankind in this present life?

Answer 20

secularism

Question 21

What is dependence upon man’s reasoning and feelings alone?

Answer 21

humanism

Question 22

What document expressed point by point the “faith” of humanism”

Answer 22

Humanist Manifesto

Question 23

What was the document that proposed a design for secular society to a planetary scale?

Answer 23

Humanist Manifesto II

Question 24

What has religious liberalism often been called?

Answer 24

modernism

Question 25

What was the new message of modernists that taught which viewed the church's mission as one of social reform and political action?

Answer 25

social gospel

Question 26

Who organized the social gospel movement?

Answer 26

Albrecht Ritschl

Question 27

Who was known as the "Prophet of the Social Gospel"?

Answer 27

Walter Rauschenbusch

Question 28

What was the outward union of all churches, denominations, and sects into one organization regardless of doctrinal differences?

Answer 28

ecumenism

Question 29

What were Christian who remained faithful to God's word called because of an influential series of scholarly essays?

Answer 29

Fundamentalists

Question 30

Who was known as the "Prince of Expositors"?

Answer 30

G. Campbell Morgan

Question 31

Who was a renowned Bible conference speaker throughout Britain and the United States?

Answer 31

W. H. Griffith Thomas

Question 32

Who was a Scottish archaeologist who dedicated his life to the exploration of Bible lands and the scientific defense of Christianity?

Answer 32

Sir William Ramsay

Question 33

Who was perhaps the best-loved evangelist of all time?

Answer 33

Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

Question 34

Who supervise a YMCA camp during World War I for soldiers stationed in Egypt?

Answer 34

Oswald Chambers

Question 35

Who was a staunch contender for Fundamentalism and one of the leading authorities on Romanism in Canada?

Answer 35

T. T. Shields

Question 36

Who was the "Apostle to the Skeptics"?

Answer 36

R. A. Torrey

Question 37

Who was a great scholar at the Princeton University who spoke out against the liberalism in politics?

Answer 37

J. Gresham Machen

Question 38

Who held the most famous revival crusades that received the most visible results?

Answer 38

Billy Sunday

Question 39

What was an attempt to capture momentary, fleeting "impressions" received by the physical senses?

Answer 39

impressionism

Question 40

What was the art style that emphasized random geometric forms and perspectives?

Answer 40

cubism

Question 41

Who was the Spanish painter who emphasized cubism in his works, hoping to create a new "reality" in the viewer's mind?

Answer 41

Pablo Picasso

Question 42

What was the art form in which artists sought to do "art for art's sake"?

Answer 42

abstract art

Question 43

Who wrote and illustrated the beloved Tale of Peter Rabbit?

Answer 43

Beatrix Potter

Question 44

What was the first modern picture book?

Answer 44

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Question 45

Who was possibly that most beloved illustrator of all time?

Answer 45

Norman Rockwell

Question 46

Who blindly wrote of life in Communist slave labor camps?

Answer 46

George Bernard Shaw

Question 47

Who was the British-science fiction writer who overlooked the brutality of Joseph Stalin and claimed that he had never met a man more candid, fair, and honest?

Answer 47

H. G. Wells

Question 48

Who was the socialist writer and philosopher who wrote several books and tracts that charged America's industries with being "oppressive" of common workers?

Answer 48

Upton Sinclair

Question 49

Who was one of the most influential and outspoken social and literary critic?

Answer 49

H. L. Mencken

Question 50

Who grounded his mystery stories, essays, and other works in and other works in moral absolutes and Christian philosophy?

Answer 50

G. K. Chesterton

Question 51

Who was a leading critic and novelist who emphasized in his works the "dullness" of middle-class morality?

Answer 51

Sinclair Lewis

Question 52

Who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series?

Answer 52

J. R. R. Tolkien

Question 53

Who graphically portrayed the horrors of the totalitarian state in his novels Animal Farm and 1984?

Answer 53

George Orwell

Question 54

Who rejected his Fabian socialist background and later embraced Christianity, reproving the materialism of the day and exposing the emptiness of modern liberal culture?

Answer 54

Malcolm Muggeridge

Question 55

Who was one of the best-known conservative writers of the day?

Answer 55

C. S. Lewis

Question 56

Who converted to Christianity after spending years promoting liberal philosophies?

Answer 56

T. S. Eliot

Question 57

What renounced war as a means of settling international disputes?

Answer 57

Paris Peace Act

Question 58

What became the leading industrial nation and the financial center of the world?

Answer 58

America

Question 59

What is an excess of money in circulation which causes the value of money to go down and prices to go up?

Answer 59

inflation

Question 60

What was the economic boom in America based on?

Answer 60

the manipulation of money and credit

Question 61

What is a central banking system that controls the nation's money supply under the auspices of the federal government?

Answer 61

Federal Reserve System

Question 62

What are investments of shares in some industrial or commercial company?

Answer 62

stocks

Question 63

What are risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit?

Answer 63

speculation

Question 64

What was one of the worst economic disasters ever experienced?

Answer 64

Great Depression

Question 65

What was the day that the bottom fell out of the stock market and started the Great Depression?

Answer 65

October 29, 1929

Question 66

What is October 29, 1929, also known as?

Answer 66

Black Tuesday