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After Michael Servetus was convicted of denying the Trinity, what pushed John Calvin to propose execution as punishment?
Calvin had a personal grudge against Servetus.
Calvin thought execution was what God demanded of all blasphemers.
Calvin thought allowing Servetus to continue preaching would make those who spared the heretic also guilty of heresy.
Calvin thought Servetus was the antichrist.
Multiple Choice 3 points
Which of the following events eventually led pope Boniface VIII to issue a papal bull called the Unam Sanctum, declaring that the church had authority over every temporal ruler?
The king of France tried to bully the pope into moving his papal court to Avignon, France.
The king of France had sent some of his henchmen to capture and torture the pope, although he was eventually saved by the leaders of the city of Anagi.
The pope moved his papal courts to Avignon, France, to avoid being manipulated by the political leadership in Rome.
• The king of France insisted on trying a bishop of the Catholic Church in a court of law and imprisoning him, rather than letting the Catholic Church judge him.
Multiple Choice 3 points
Thomas Aquinas believed that humans could use deductive reasoning to know nearly everything about God. However, he believed God had also announced to humanity all the knowledge that they needed to be saved, so that salvation would not be based on a person's intelligence. People who were not traditionally intelligent could believe what God said and be saved. This is an example of the scholastic trait of....
emphasizing the practice of theology in universities.
searching for the overlap or gap between human reason and divine revelation. rejecting Islamic interpretations of ancient authorities.
using debate to compare and contrast differing authorities on a topic.

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1) Calvin thought allowing Servetus to continue preaching would make those who spared the heretic also guilty of heresy.

2) The king of France insisted on trying a bishop of the Catholic Church in a court of law and imprisoning him, rather than letting the Catholic Church judge him.

3) Searching for the overlap or gap between human reason and divine revelation.