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Section 2 Flashcards

1
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When was Baptist used as a denominational label for the first time?

A. 1588
B. 1611
C. 1644
D. 1702

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C. 1644

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Why did Baptists refuse the name “Anabaptist”?

A. “Anapbaptist” means re-baptizer, and they did not regard infant baptism as a true baptism.
B. Anabaptists were Arminians, and all of the Baptists were Calvanists.
C. Anabaptists on the Continent were Calvanistic, and the Baptists rejected predestination.
D. “Anabaptist is not a biblical word; they prefered a biblical title.

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A. “Anabaptist” means re-baptizer, and they did not regard infant baptism as a true baptism.

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Which of the following views of Baptist origins does Beale consider correct or mostly correct?

A. English Separatist Derivation
B. Landmark
C. Spiritual Kinship

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A. English Separatist Derivation

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What are the key aspects of Elizabeth’s attempt to establish the Anglican Church as the national church of England?

A. Establishment of Puritanism as official theology
B. Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
C. Affirmation of the Pope as head of the church
D. Established episcopal succession through the Roman Church

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B. Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
D. Established episcopal succession through the Roman Church

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What nonconforming movement sprang up in 1564 to repudiate Elizabeth’s program?

A. Separatists
B. Baptists
C. Puritans
D. Quakers

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C. Puritans

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How did the nonconformists try to influence King James I in religious matters when he first took the throne?

A. Asked him to replace the King James Bible
B. Submitted Millenary Petition urging various changes to the state church
C. Plotted to blow up Parlaiment
D. Separated from the English church and founded independent churches

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B. Submitted Millenary Petition urging various changes to the state church

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How did Separatists initially emerge in England?

A. Puritans who became convinced they must leave the Anglican Church
B. Persecution of Catholics caused them to rebel against the English government
C. Rejection of infant baptism
D. People who left the Anglican Church and became Puritans

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A. Puritans who became convinced they must leave the Anglican Church

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What was the relationship between Smyth’s church (Gainsborough) and the church that left Scrooby Manor?

A. Smyth’s was Puritan and the Scrooby Manor church was Separatist
B. One congregation before they divided and moved to The Netherlands
C. The Scrooby Manor church settles in Amsterday, but Smyth’s church sailed to the New World
D. Two Baptist churches that had fellowship but did not unite

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B. One congregation before they divided and moved to The Netherlands

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What radical position did John Smyth come to after leading his church to Amsterdam?

A. Arminianism
B. Puritanism
C. Repudiated infant baptism
D. Embraced infant baptism

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C. Repudiated infant baptism

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Which of the following is not one of the reasons Smyth organized his church as he did?

A. Believer’s baptism is the only true baptism
B. Baptism of the Church of England was invalid
C. The only valid baptism is self-baptism
D. He hoped to discover a succession of churches to the NT through the Mennonites

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C. The only valid baptism is self-baptism

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How did Helwys and a small group of believers respond to Smyth and the rest of the church trying to join the Mennonites?

A. They moved to Leiden and then later sailed to Americal on the Mayflower
B. They thanked Smyth for his faithful service but declined to join him
C. They also joined the Mennonites
D. They excommunicated Smyth and separated from him

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D. They excommunicated Smyth and separated from him

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Which of the following is not one of the three Mennonite teachings that Helwys’ group rejected?

A. Pacifism
B. Exclusion of government officials from church membership
C. Forbidding of taking oaths
D. Predestination

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D. Predestination

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Which of the following is not one of the teachings of Smyth that Helwys rejected after he and his group returned to England?

A. Pelagianism
B. Heavenly-flesh Christology
C. Denial of free will
D. Successionism

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C. Denial of free will

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What work by Helwys is “one of the earliest appeals for full religious freedom ever published in the English language”?

A. Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots
B. A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity
C. Areogapitica
D. Declaration of Breda

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B. A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity

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What happened to Helwys as well as to his successor, John Murton?

A. Burned at Smithfield
B. Died in Newgate Prison
C. Died in exile in Holland
D. Hanged, drawn, and quartered in London

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B. Died in Newgate Prison

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In which decade did the earliest Baptist treatises on immersion appear?

A. 1610s
B. 1640s
C. 1660s
D. 1690s

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B. 1640s

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Who was the leading systematic theologian among the General Baptists?

He wrote the first Baptist systematic theology.

A. John Smyth
B. Thomas Helwys
C. John Spilsbury
D. Thomas Grantham

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D. Thomas Grantham

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Which of the following is not one of the ways Baptists continued the practices of the English Separatists?

A. Pastors and Elders distinguished
B. Patriotism
C. Worship
D. Exposition of Scripture
E. Covenant Commitment
F. Church Discipline
G. Congregationalism

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A. Pastors and Elders distinguished

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In what key way did Baptists differ from the English Separatists?

A. Use of King James Version
B. Participation of women in active church life
C. Rejection of English state church
D. Believer’s baptism by immersion

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D. Believer’s baptism by immersion

20
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Who was the General Baptist theologian who mixed some Calvinistic elements, such as election, with an unconditional atonement?

A. John Murton
B. Thomas Lamb
C. Matthew Caffyn
D. Daniel Taylor

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B. Thomas Lamb

21
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What was the basic theological stance of the Standard Confession of the General Baptists?

A. Arminianism
B. Lutheranism
C. Pelagianism
D. Calvanism

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A. Arminianism

22
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In what area of theology did Matthew Caffyn begin departing from orthodoxy?

A. Baptism
B. Christ
C. Church
D. Salvation

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B. Christ

23
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What happened to most General Baptist churches by 1731?

A. Teaching or tolerating Unitarianism
B. Ordaining women and uneducated men
C. Renewing fellowship with Anglicans
D. Teaching or tolerating open communion

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A. Teaching or tolerating Unitarianism

24
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Who founded the New Connection of General Baptist churches?

A. John Murton
B. Matthew Caffyn
C. Dan Taylor
D. Thomas Lamb

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C. Dan Taylor

25
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What happened to General Baptists in the 19th century?

A. Embraced Calvinism
B. Abandoned believer’s baptism
C. Participated in world missions movement
D. Declined into liberalism

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D. Declined into liberalism

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What are the two major divisions of the Protestant Reformation, and what issue separated them?

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Some followed doctrine regarding the Trinity, the Person of Christ, the personality of the Holy Spirit, atonement by satisfaction of divine wrath, etc… Others followed doctrine that led to the worship of Mary and the saints, the control of the church by bishops, monasticism, and salvation by works.

27
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What are three groups among the radical reformers, and what was the main authority for each?

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  1. Rationalists, Reason
  2. Mystics, Visions
  3. Anabaptists, Bible
28
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What are four characteristics of the Anabaptists?

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  1. They held to believer’s baptism
  2. They rejected the predestinarianism of the mainline reformers
  3. They were radical separatists
  4. They were pacifists
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Possible essay

What are the similarities and differences between the Anabaptists and later Baptists?

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  1. They shared commitments like gathering for service, believer’s baptism for membership, soul liberty, and separation of church and state.
  2. They had differences like baptizing in many ways (Menno Simons practiced pouring), Separitism from culture, pacifism, and holding to alternate doctrines (Hoffmanite Christology and less committment to justification by faith alone). (Hoffmanite Christology is that Jesus’ body was made in heaven before placed in Mary’s womb.)
30
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The earliest Baptists merged what two things to create Baptist theology?

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  1. Separatist ecclesiology
  2. Reformation theology
31
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What do you need to know about Henry VIII (reigned 1519-1547)?

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  1. He sought permission from the pope to divorce his wife Catherine because she had failed to bear him a son.
  2. Because Catherine was the daughter of Emperor Ferdinand, the pope refused Henry permission. Henry searched for a theological justification for his divorce. Thomas Cranmer had one.
  3. Henry elevated Cranmer to Archbishop of Canterbury; executed Thomas More (who opposed the divorce); divorced Catherine; and married Anne (who was already pregnant with Elizabeth).
  4. Henry commanded Parliament to pass the Act of Supremacy in 1534 (the king is the head of the church), launching the Anglican Reformation.
  5. Cranmer and the secratary of state, Thomas Cromwell, worked behind the scenes for true reformation in England.
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What do you need to know about Edward VI (reigned 1547-1553)?

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  1. He was Henry VIII’s son who succeeded him after death.
  2. He was a genuinely godly young boy. His advisors supported Protestant direction.
  3. Cranmer, with help from John Hooper, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, John Knox, and others, launched sweeping changes to the Church of England.
  4. Edward died at age 16.
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What do you need to know about Mary Tudor (reigned, 1553-1558)?

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  1. She was the oldest of Henry VIII’s children, and a convinced Roman Catholic.
  2. She executed nearly 300 people standing against Catholicism.
  3. The people did not like that she killed Protestants like Latimer, Ridley, Hooper, and Cranmer.
  4. She died after only 5 years on the throne, and was known as “Bloody Mary”.
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What do you need to know about Elizabeth I (reigned, 1558-1603)?

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  1. She was the youngest of Henry’s children to come to the throne.
  2. She was equally opposed to two tendencies in the English Church. Refused Catholocism, claimed to be the head of the church, and opposed the reformation group known as Puritans.
  3. She was not very religious and sought a “Middle Way” between Romanism and Puritanism. This became known as Anglicanism.
35
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What are the four characteristics of the Puritans?

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  1. They desired Presbyterianism rather than episcopacy. (Pastors rule the church)
  2. They wanted limitations on the state-church.
  3. They desired simplified worship.
  4. They desired the church to commit to Calvinism.
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Possible Essay

How does Separatism differ from Puritanism?

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  1. Christ is the head of the church, so the government shouldn’t have to change anything in the church.
  2. They rejected the Geneva Bible and had the King James Version made.
37
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What happened when James I came to the throne of England?

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He vowed to “harry the dissenters out of the land” and continued to make life difficult in England for Separatists.

38
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How did the origin of modern Baptists come from the pursuit of a pure church?

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Anglicans wanted a church free of Roman Catholocism; Puritans wanted a church free of episcopacy and liturgical worship; Separatists wanted a church free from government interference.

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Possible Essay

What is the “Baptist logic” that led Smyth to the Baptist position?

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  1. Infant baptism is the foundation of the state-church and the parish system.
  2. Separatists rejected the state-church but not infant baptism.
  3. There is no evidence for infant baptism in the NT.
40
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What is se-baptism? Who is a famous se-Baptist?

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Se-baptism is baptizing oneself. Smyth did that.

41
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Possible essay

What are three characteristics of the General Baptists?

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  1. Arminian theology (General atonement, free will, and loss of salvation)
  2. Some Anabaptist elements (Some, not most, were pacifist)
  3. Connectional (Favor toward regulartory church associations)
42
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What London church relates to the beginning of the Particular Baptists?

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JLJ Church (Named for Jacob, Lanthrop, and Jessey, their first three pastors)

43
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What document records the recovery of immersion by a split from the JLJ Church?

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The Kiffin Manuscript

44
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Possible Essay

What are three characteristics of the Particular Baptists?

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  1. Calvinist theology
  2. Non-Anabaptist
  3. Autonomous

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