Question: What political mixture did Calvin prefer?
Answer: aristocracy and democracy

Question: What is the term for checks and balances in a political system?
Answer: separation of powers

Question: Who paved the way for modern democracy to emerge?
Answer: Calvin

Question: Who was allowed to teach a liberal Bible interpretation?
Answer: Hugo Grotius

Question: What philosophers were given asylum?
Answer: Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle

Question: Whose democracies were created by Protestants?
Answer: the English and the American democracies

Question: What democratic principles were followed by the Plymouth Colony?
Answer: self-rule and separation of powers

Question: Other than the U.S., to what colonies did the British export their democratic beliefs?
Answer: Australia, New Zealand, and India

Question: What group believed that democracy was the will of God?
Answer: Congregationalists

Question: What other group in America practiced self-rule and separation of powers?
Answer: Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question: What group initiated the right to religious freedom?
Answer: Protestants

Question: Where did Luther refuse to change his beliefs?
Answer: Worms

Question: What persecuted groups followed the separation of church and state?
Answer: Anabaptists and Huguenots

Question: Who wrote about religious freedom in the early 17th century?
Answer: John Smyth and Thomas Helwys

Question: How many American Protestants supported independence in America?
Answer: The great majority

Question: What group popularized early Protestant teachings about separation of church and state?
Answer: Enlightenment thinkers

Question: What did John Locke use as a basis for his political beliefs?
Answer: a set of Protestant Christian assumptions

Question: Whose ideas influenced the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Locke

Question: What Rights do the Declaration of Independence consider unalienable?
Answer: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness

Question: What scripture did Locke use as a reference for equality?
Answer: Genesis 1, 26-28

Question: When did Prussia stop torture?
Answer: 1740

Question: When did Britain end slavery?
Answer: 1834

Question: Who were the first men to make large contributions to international law?
Answer: Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf

Question: Who founded the Red Cross?
Answer: Henry Dunant

Question: What international law was Henry Dunant mostly responsible for?
Answer: The Geneva Convention

Question: Who first introduced social insurance programs?
Answer: Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

Question: What did Bismarck consider social insurance programs to be?
Answer: practical Christianity

Question: What social reform movements were Protestants working toward in the nineteen century?
Answer: the abolition of slavery, prison reforms, and woman suffrage

Question: What country started programs that led to the welfare state?
Answer: Germany

Question: What area copied Bismarck's social programs the most?
Answer: the Western world

Question: What did John Milton do for world literature?
Answer: enrich

Question: Samuel Taylor is listed as enriching what?
Answer: World literature

Question: What women writers were listed as contributors to world literature?
Answer: Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë

Question: Edgar Allen Poe added value to literature in what area?
Answer: World

Question: The Roman Catholic Church considers Protestant denominations to be what?
Answer: ecclesial communities or specific faith-believing communities

Question: What is lacking in Protestant priesthood, according to the Roman Catholic Church?
Answer: no sacramental ministerial priesthood

Question: What does the Roman Catholic Church say is not comparable to their sacraments and dogmas?
Answer: ordinances and doctrines

Question: What other Church shares the Roman Catholic view on Protestant churches?
Answer: Eastern Orthodox

Question: What is lacking in Protestantism, according to the Roman Catholic Church?
Answer: true apostolic succession

Question: Who were Magisterial reformers?
Answer: Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldrych Zwingli

Question: What institution did Martin Luther believe he was reforming?
Answer: the Roman Catholic Church

Question: Instead of a visible church, what did Protestants believe there was?
Answer: a spiritual, invisible, and hidden church

Question: When did the idea of a hidden church begin?
Answer: in the early days of the Protestant Reformation

Question: What church did the Reformers claim had left them?
Answer: the Roman Catholic Church

Question: Who supported the Magisterial Reformation?
Answer: the ruling authorities

Question: The Reformed churches based their beliefs about ecclesiastical organization on what movement?
Answer: Conciliar

Question: What are the doctrines of the Reformed churches called?
Answer: the five solas

Question: What ecumenical council did the Reformed churches reject?
Answer: the Council of Trent

Question: What type of character became central to religious unity in Reformed churches?
Answer: invisible

Question: What group has been unsuccessful in creating a unified church since 1948?
Answer: the World Council of Churches

Question: What conference was held in 1910?
Answer: the Edinburgh Missionary Conference

Question: What churches have been strongly engaged in the ecumenical movement?
Answer: Orthodox

Question: What have Orthodox churches condemned the perception of?
Answer: watering down Orthodox doctrine

Question: What types of churches have had rapidly declining memberships?
Answer: united churches

Question: If done properly, what Protestant practice does the Catholic Church recognize?
Answer: baptism

Question: What is the only other sacrament of the Protestants that the Catholic Church recognizes?
Answer: marriage

Question: Who can become ordained to the Catholic priesthood after a period of study?
Answer: Protestant ministers who become Catholics

Question: Protestants who want full communion with the Catholic Church do not have to be what?
Answer: re-baptized

Question: Why does the Catholic Church not recognize the ordination of Protestant ministers?
Answer: the lack of apostolic succession and the disunity from Catholic Church

Question: What document was signed in 1999?
Answer: the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

Question: Who rejects the statement signed in 1999?
Answer: Confessional Lutherans

Question: Who adopted the Joint Declaration in 2006?
Answer: delegates to the World Methodist Conference

Question: The Joint Declaration supposedly resolves the conflict which originally led to what movement?
Answer: the Protestant Reformation

Question: What two groups originally signed the Joint Declaration?
Answer: Lutheran World Federation and Catholic Church

Question: How many Protestants are there in the world?
Answer: more than 900 million

Question: What is the total population of Christians in the world?
Answer: approximately 2.4 billion

Question: Approximately how much of the world's population are Protestant (in fractions)?
Answer: more than one tenth

Question: What area only had about 2 million Protestants in 2010?
Answer: Middle East-North Africa

Question: What area had the largest Protestant population in 2010?
Answer: Sub-Saharan Africa

Question: In what European areas is Protestantism still the most practiced religion?
Answer: the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom

Question: In 2012, what percentage of the EU was thought to be Protestant?
Answer: 12%

Question: In what countries is Protestantism one of the most popular (but not THE most popular) religions?
Answer: Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary

Question: The Pew Research Center estimated Protestants to be what percentage of Europe's Christian population in 2010?
Answer: 17.8%

Question: What area was once the site of a significant pre-reformation movement, but now only has a small number of Protestants?
Answer: Czech Republic