According to Enns, what is Protestantism?

Diverse movements/traditions from the Protestant Reformation

What is fundamentalism?

Movement of 1800s that stressed fundamental Christian tenets

What is liberal Protestantism, according to Enns?

Mainline Protestants who accept biblical criticism wholesale

What two elements unite evangelicals, Protestants probably interested in biblical criticism?

Bible's divine authority and high view of Scripture

What does sola scriptura mean to Protestants?

Scripture alone is final authority on all matters of faith

What is the greatest challenge to the Protestant identity and its view of biblical authority?

Challenge to Bible's historical reliability and authority

What challenged Protestantism's view of the Bible in the late 1800s onward?

Discoveries that question the Bible's historical reliability

According to Enns, what is the main cause of Protestantism unease with biblical criticism?

View of Bible as supreme authority that it may not support

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Protestant Reading of the Bible

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This quiz helps us to understand Protestantism and its approach to reading the Bible religiously and critically. Based on The Bible and the Believer, chapter 3.

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T/F: Protestant resistance to criticism is based on a tendency to impede its unified message.
False
True
2
According to Enns, what is Protestantism?
A group of people who protest
Diverse movements/traditions from the Protestant Reformation
No one really knows
People who only followed Martin Luther
3
T/F: The creative way NT writers use the OT suggest theological unity is not self-evident.
True
False
4
Each Protestant movement looks to what as its supreme authority of its faith?
Its founder
Scripture
Magisterium
Talmudic or midrashic interpretation
5
What is fundamentalism?
Movement that likes biblical criticism
Group that views biblical criticism as friend
Movement of 1800s that stressed fundamental Christian tenets
Group that stresses fundamentals of math like addition
6
T/F: Protestants do not choose a direct appeal to the Bible to settle disputes.
True
False
7
T/F: There is no single Protestant perspective on reading the Bible.
True
False
8
In comparison to Christians, Jewish people read the Bible in what ways?
As a book to engage the text and to connect with God
Without dogmatic insistence on biblical authority
As a complex book with tensions and contradictions
All of the above
9
What common element or theme marks the history, reading, and theology of Protestantism?
Conflict
Dogmatism
Unity
Confusion
10
What is liberal Protestantism, according to Enns?
Mainline Protestants who accept biblical criticism wholesale
Protestants upset about a dialogue between faith and reason
Group of Protestants who reject biblical criticism
Protestant groups that resist biblical critical discussions
11
How did the connections with pagan myths challenge Protestant assumptions about the Bible?
Questioned the historical value of Genesis 1-11
Provided evidence of the fanciful nature of Genesis' stories
All of the above
Questioned its claim to be God's holy, unique revealed word
12
What three events in late 1800s challenged the historical reliability of the book of Genesis?
Emergence of evolutionary theory by Darwin
Decipherment of Babylonian creation and flood myths
Wellhausen's documentary theory of non-Mosaic authorship
All of the above
13
T/F: Christians read the Bible as an unfolding and unified story of salvation ending in Jesus.
True
False
14
What other biblical book may show signs of multiple authors and a long transmission history?
Isaiah
Psalms
None of the above
Amos
15
What two elements unite evangelicals, Protestants probably interested in biblical criticism?
Bible's divine authority and high view of Scripture
Holding of only literalist, inerrantist view of Bible
Rejection of fundamentals: Christ's deity, Bible's authority
16
Wellhausen's theory speculated the Pentateuch was how many documents written over centuries?
One: written by Moses alone
Four: J, E, P, D
None of the above
Two: God and man
17
What three obstacles prevent Protestantism from a faithful and critical reading of the Bible?
Reformation call to "Scripture alone" as final authority
Nature of Christian Bible as unified story of salvation
Battles over Bible's reliability and Protestant identity
All of the above
18
T/F: Protestantism's movements stem from influential leaders like Martin Luther.
False
True
19
What does sola scriptura mean to Protestants?
Scripture's secondary role as a theological guide
Scripture's meaning is plain and simple
Scripture alone is final authority on all matters of faith
A rejection of all church tradition in favor of the Bible
20
T/F: Protestant insistence on sola scripture led to the Bible's authority being challenged?
False
True
21
How does biblical criticism challenge the Protestant notion of a Bible with a singular message?
Deconstructs the its unity by focusing on a book's origins
Focuses on the historical settings of each book when written
Breaks it down into various and conflicting messages
All of the above
22
What is the greatest challenge to the Protestant identity and its view of biblical authority?
Bible shows signs of long histories and multiple authors
Challenge to Bible's historical reliability and authority
Undermining reliability of creation accounts by evolution
Bible shares forms of literature with myths like Enuma Elish
23
What direct and indirect effect(s) did evolution have on the Bible?
Challenged historical reliability of creation story
All of the above
Questioned whether Adam was the cause of humanity's fall
Questioned Jesus death to undo sin and restore humanity
24
T/F: There is only one Protestant view of how to engage biblical criticism.
False
True
25
T/F: Roman Catholicism and Judaism have less difficulty with biblical criticism?
True
False
26
What challenged Protestantism's view of the Bible in the late 1800s onward?
Discoveries that question the Bible's historical reliability
Discovery of Babylonian myths showing Genesis was original
Theory of evolution that supported Genesis' creation account
Theories that supported Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch
27
What ways have Protestants viewed reading the Bible faithfully in light of biblical criticism?
With suspicion: only piecemeal engagement with criticism
Discomfort with specific issues raised by scholarship
Synthesizing faith and criticism scholarship
All of the above
28
According to Enns, what is the main cause of Protestantism unease with biblical criticism?
Requiring more of the Bible than criticism can support
Adherence solely to Martin Luther's doctrines
Lack of respect and reverence for Bible
View of Bible as supreme authority that it may not support
29
Which of the following were results of adherence to sola scriptura that challenged the Bible?
Disunity among Protestants about how to interpret the Bible
Personal inquiry into the Bible not led by the Church
All of the above
A challenge to biblical authority if criticism was correct
30
Who started Protestantism with his challenge of church's failure to submit to Scripture?
William Tyndale
Ulrich Zwingli
Martin Luther
John Calvin

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