Which of the following would NOT be consistent with Luther's and Calvin's views on predestination?
a. God's omniscience and omnipotence requires the concept of predestination.
b. Those predestined by God to go to heaven are the elect, the rest are the damned.
c. With proper piety and humility, a person may know with certainty whether or not he has been granted salvation.
d. God freely decides to whom he will grant faith and to whom he will not; only those to whom he has granted faith can go to heaven.
e. No matter how devout or how many truly good works a person has performed, he is predestined to hell if God has decided not to grant him faith.
c
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The Boston Tea Party (1773) was primarily a response to Great Britain's decision to
a. ban the sale, production, and consumption of tea in colonial America b. impose a steep import tax on tea, thus nearly doubling the price for a pound of tea c. enforce the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts on the Massachusetts Colony d. grant a monopoly on selling tea in colonial America to the British East India Company e. quarter British troops in the homes of Bostonians
Pope Urban II was significant historically and religiously for all of the following reasons except he
A) attempted to come to terms with the Byzantines after the schism. B) established the order of the Knights Templar. C) called for the First Crusade after the Emperor Alexius informed him of the Turkish incursion. D) motivated the clergy to seize back the Holy Land and help the fractious east at the Council of Clermont. E) advantageously used the loyalty of the French knights to seize and maintain control over the Holy Land and transplanted feudalism overseas.
In an effort to find allies in a hostile world, Lenin
A. tried to develop alliances with colonial nationalist movements to overthrow the imperialist colonial regimes. B. used the Comintern to train espionage agents in German army training centers. C. began making military alliances with the nations of Africa and Asia. D. established the Comintern to stimulate international trade. E. appealed to nationalist leaders in colonial countries with the idea of comprehensive revolution.
Which of the following was the Republican ideal?
A) to expand the diversity of the nation B) to unite the entire country together as a single economic and political unit C) to return to a traditional agrarian world D) to achieve absolute economic equality