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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Satan ask Jesus to turn a stone into?

2. When are the Gospels written?

3. What typifies the Sadducees?

4. Why does Yancey believe that Jews stopped following Jesus?

5. In the movie La Dolce Vita, what is the helicopter ferrying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the one word label Yancey would bestow upon Jesus?

2. What does Jesus recommend as a punishment for lustful thinking?

3. What is Yancey's purpose in writing The Jesus I Thought I Knew?

4. What does Yancey discover as he begins to study the Jesus of the Gospels?

5. What is the Temptation in the desert?

6. What is it that restores Jesus's humanity for Yancey?

7. Where did Philip Yancey first become acquainted with the stories of Jesus?

8. What is Yancey's interpretation of why God decided not to come in clouds of glory and fix everything?

9. What did Jesus look like?

10. What did the students at Texas A & M think of the Beatitudes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What in the Pharisee-influenced world that Jesus lived in did he stand against? Why was he so radical in terms of his own present day religious climate?

Essay Topic 2

The book begins with a personal account of Yancey's life in Christianity.

1) What is Yancey's personal story in terms of his understanding of Jesus?

2) How does his history growing up in the church affect this book?

3) Why does he use his personal experience?

Essay Topic 3

Free will is a major concept in Christianity and Yancey ties this theological concept strongly to the temptation of Christ in the wilderness.

Choose one of the following to write about.

1) How does the concept of free will fit in with the temptation of Christ in the wilderness?

2) Why would God send a helpless, suffering Messiah?

3) Why does Jesus have so little power and not accept the power Satan would offer him?

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