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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 statement does Chesterton emphatically make about Christianity?

2. When morality and faith in the gods was crumbling in Rome, what else does Chesterton say was crumbling?

3. What does Chesterton say the Catholic faith utilizes?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the three distinct things that make up one in the Christmas story?

5. What does Chesterton say is the affect of the paradox of Christianity?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chesterton, how do Hector and Achilles compare when looked at historically?

2. What significance does Chesterton assign to the Christmas story happening in a cave?

3. What possible exception does Chesterton make to the statement that Christendom is unique in the creation of church militants? Why does he say the exception doesn't count?

4. Why does Chesterton attempt to look at the Gospels as one who had never seen them before?

5. How does Chesterton connect Christ's intellectual ability to his claim of divinity?

6. Describe the Europe that Chesterton says would exist if the world still lived in paganism.

7. Explain what Chesterton meant when he said the birth of Christ turned the universe inside out, or that the circumference had been turned into the center.

8. What two elements does Chesterton claim the church unites? How does it do it?

9. What was the religious state of Rome when Christ appeared?

10. Explain how Chesterton comes to the conclusion that Christ was an intellectually apt and astute man?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chesterton argues that Confucianism and Buddhism are philosophies and not religions. Write an essay about what it means to be a religion.

Part 1. How are the words religious and religion defined by the dictionary or encyclopedia? What are some variations to the definitions?

Part 2. Is religion necessarily theistic? How does the presence of god in a religion change it?

Part 3. Analyze and compare Chesterton's arguments with your own set of definitions about religion.

Essay Topic 2

In the chapter titled "God and Comparative Religion", Chesterton refers to the Book of Job as one of the cornerstones of the world. Write an essay about the Book of Job.

Part 1. What is the Book of Job? When was it written and by whom? Where does it remain as religious text?

Part 2. Summarize the Book of Job, including the content of the conversations.

Part 3. What primary and important topics or themes are discussed in the book? Why are they pivotal?

Part 4. What is your personal belief regarding some of these topics. Do you feel the Book of Job offers valuable and useful insight? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about C.S. Lewis.

Part 1. Write a short biography of C.S. Lewis. When and where did he live? What did he do professionally?

Part 2. What kind of material did C.S. Lewis write? What are some of his better known works?

Part 3. How did C.S. Lewis's views on God and Christianity change throughout his life? What influence did "The Everlasting Man" have on C.S. Lewis?

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