Theology by LuskT

Champion(s):

WellsW
If you ain't first, you're last


Runner(s)-Up:

RoseM
De docta ignorantia


Quiz Description

Twelve questions to test your faithfulness...in studying the history of the world's religions. Approximately half of the questions cover Judeo-Christian topics, while the remainder are a smattering of other religious systems. Honestly, I could probably write an entire Minileague on this, with enough time. Questions cover people, places, tenets, historical developments, and even a little math. Standard 1DS rules apply, void where prohibited, your mileage may vary.

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Questions:

What flower is commonly used as a mnemonic device - mainly by detractors - to remember the five main points of Calvinist doctrine?

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TULIP (Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints)

The tauroctony served as a central element in the meeting houses of which ancient Roman cult religion?

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Mithraism

Both Hebrew and Islamic gematria assign what value to the letter M (mem/mim), a number commonly associated with transition or renewal?

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40

Which early church apologist produced Adversus Haereses, one of the earliest works to systematically denounce religious systems such as Gnosticism as unorthodox?

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Irenaeus

Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta are the central tenets of Zoroastrianism. These are most commonly translated to English as what three "good" things?

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Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds

The apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus are considered, at least by its founders, the source of which form of Orthodox Christianity?

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Armenian Apostolic Church

In Norse mythology, which of the Nine Worlds was ruled by the giant Surtr, along with his consort Sinmara in some accounts?

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Muspelheim

What Latin word, a small but theologically significant inclusion in the Nicene Creed, was a significant contributor to the East-West Schism of 1054?

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Filioque

Which member of the Aztec pantheon, commonly depicted in iconography as a hummingbird, was the patron god of the city of Tenochtitlan? (I will be generous with spelling)

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Huitzilopochtli

After a crusade was called specifically to eradicate it, what medieval heresy saw one of its last major strongholds - the fortress of Montségur - besieged in 1243-1244?

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Cathars (Albigensians)

What word, meaning "perfection of worship," is a major tenet of Sufism and completes the following hadith? "____ is to worship Allah as you see Him; if you can't see Him, surely He sees you."

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Ihsan

Which bishop of Alexandria and fierce opponent of Arianism wrote a festal letter in 367 CE that is the oldest recorded list of the 27 books that make up the modern New Testament canon?

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Athanasius I