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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 Francois Mauriac strive to be?

2. How do teachers live in Jesus'sday?

3. What does Yancey find remarkable about Mary?

4. What is the physical appearance of Jesus?

5. How many emendations do the Pharisees add to the law?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Yancey grow up not knowing any Jewish people?

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

6. What does the name of Jesus mean?

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

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

9. Why does Yancey find the Beatitudes so difficult?

10. What did Jesus look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the basic characteristics of the sub-groups within the Jewish culture: Essenes, Zealots, Sadducees, and Pharisees?

Describe each and what part they played in the culture of Jesus's day.

Essay Topic 2

What are the psychological realities within the teachings of the Beatitudes? Describe them and why Yancey believes they are so profound.

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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