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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 brings Jesus to life for Yancey in Chapter 5?

2. What magazine is Jimmy Carter famously interviewed about lust in?

3. What television figure does Yancy compare his early understanding of Jesus to?

4. What does the author M. Scott Peck try to bring about?

5. Who writes In His Steps?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yancey say is the true meaning of Christmas?

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

3. What is the concept from Barbara Tuchman of "no flash-forwards"?

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

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

6. What is the Temptation in the desert?

7. What does Yancey say the Communist party had trouble with?

8. What does the name of Jesus mean?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the major stages of the last week of Jesus based on Chapter 10.

1) Identify each stage.

2) What does each stage represent theologically for Yancey?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Yancey see the miracles of Jesus as signs? What are they signs of and how does that function in the larger understanding of who Jesus is?

Essay Topic 3

What is meant by "dangled promises" in terms of the Beatitudes? What are the promises?

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