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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. Where is the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible?

2. What does Yancey want to answer with this book, according to Chapter 1?

3. Who directs Jesus of Nazareth?

4. What does the word "gospel" mean?

5. What is the Golden Rule?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three levels of the Beatitudes in Chapter 6?

2. What does Yancey do with the extremism of Jesus?

3. What is the Temptation in the desert?

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

5. What did Jesus look like?

6. What is Jacob Neuser's primary objection to Jesus?

7. What does Yancey object to in sentimental Christmas card portrayals of Jesus?

8. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

9. How does the gospel of Matthew open and what is the importance of that?

10. What is the Golden Rule?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Jesus mean by the term "my kingdom"? How does Yancey see the Kingdom of God as different from national or political entities? What does Yancey believe the kingdom of God means?

Essay Topic 2

What are the two reasons Yancey gives for Jesus investing so much in the 12 disciples? What is Jesus revealing about himself in his choice and commitment to his disciples?

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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