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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. In the middle ages, what do many Christians believe Jesus suffered from?

2. Where does Yancey teach his film class on Jesus?

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

4. What does Francois Mauriac strive to be?

5. Where does Virginia Stem Owens teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jesus look like?

2. What experience did Yancey have that began to change his understanding of Jesus?

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

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

5. What may Satan have taken away from the confrontation with Jesus in the wilderness?

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

7. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

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

9. What does Jesus change about the way people worship?

10. What language did Jesus speak growing up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Yancey want to confront the present day church with in terms of the issue of being Pharisees? What does he believe Jesus would say to the modern church about its exclusive nature?

Essay Topic 2

Why is it important for Christians to acknowledge the Jewish roots of Jesus? What might have been different over the past 2000 years if Jesus had been identified more strongly as a Jewish rabbi?

Essay Topic 3

Does Yancey believe in the Resurrection? What is his struggle? How does he overcome his doubts and fears?

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