Christian mortalism - Quiz
Christian mortalism
  • 1. What does the Latin term 'Psychopannychia' actually represent in Calvin's work?
A) A description of purgatory
B) A refutation of soul sleep
C) A defense of soul sleep
D) The definition of the soul's immortality
  • 2. Which Greek root word does 'hypno-' mean?
A) Mortal
B) Vigil
C) Sleep
D) Soul
  • 3. What is the English translation of the subtitle 'le sommeil de l'âme'?
A) The sleep of the soul
B) The immortality of the soul
C) The night of the spirit
D) The death of the mind
  • 4. Who translated 'An excellent treatise of the Immortalytie of the Soule' in 1581?
A) John of Damascus
B) Eustratios of Constantinople
C) Stocker, T.
D) Martin Luther
  • 5. According to the text, how did Martin Luther describe the soul after death?
A) Wandering the earth as a spirit
B) Existing in a state of eternal fire
C) Immediately facing judgment
D) Entering its chamber and peace
  • 6. What does the term 'Hypnopsychism' mean?
A) Immortality of the mind
B) Death of the soul
C) Sleep of the soul
D) Resurrection of the body
  • 7. Who denounced mortalism as a heresy using the term 'Hypnopsychism'?
A) Calvin
B) Tyndale
C) Eustratios of Constantinople
D) Luther
  • 8. What does the Greek word 'thnetos' mean?
A) Mortal
B) Sleep
C) Soul
D) Vigil
  • 9. Who described the mortalist views held by Arab Christians?
A) Luther and Tyndale
B) Eustratios and the Anabaptists
C) Eusebius of Caesarea and John of Damascus
D) Stocker and Calvin
  • 10. When does the deceased begin to enjoy a reward or suffer punishment according to the Anabaptist view mentioned?
A) Judgment Day
B) Three days after death
C) At the moment of burial
D) Immediately after death
  • 11. What misunderstanding arose regarding Calvin's term 'Psychopannychia'?
A) People thought it meant soul sleep
B) People thought it was written by Luther
C) People thought it was a Greek poem
D) People thought it meant soul immortality
  • 12. What is the literal meaning of the Greek component '-pannychis'?
A) Sleep
B) Death
C) Vigil
D) Life
  • 13. In the 1600s, to whom was the term 'thnetopsychism' applied?
A) Only the Greek Orthodox Church
B) Only Calvin and his editors
C) Tyndale, Luther, and other mortalists
D) Only Arab Christians
  • 14. What is one Anabaptist view regarding the soul's relation to the body?
A) The soul is not separate from the body
B) The soul is punished before the body dies
C) The soul is an eternal spiritual entity
D) The soul leaves the body at death to go to heaven
  • 15. Which term for this belief has been used since the 1970s?
A) Thnetopsychism
B) Christian mortalism
C) Psychopannychism
D) Soul death
  • 16. The Fifth Council of the Lateran condemned Christian mortalism as what?
A) A minor theological disagreement
B) An acceptable alternative view
C) Erroneous assertions
D) Heresy of the highest order
  • 17. Which eighteenth-century religious figure is mentioned as a supporter of Christian mortalism?
A) John Calvin
B) John Milton
C) Henry Layton
D) Gordon Campbell
  • 18. In the context of the text, what does 'thnetopsychism' represent?
A) A term for the intermediate state.
B) The official Catholic position.
C) An opposite term to Christian mortalism.
D) The belief in soul sleep.
  • 19. The belief in Christian mortalism contrasts with the traditional belief that the soul goes where immediately after death?
A) The intermediate state.
B) A state of total non-existence.
C) Heaven, hell, or purgatory.
D) A period of silent vigil.
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