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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. According to Yancey, what is the primary emotion in most religions when one approaches God?

2. Who fights against Antiochus?

3. How does Yancey describe Jesus in Chapter 3?

4. What does Yancey think the church has turned Jesus into, according to Chapter 1?

5. What language does Jesus speak on a daily basis?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Golden Rule?

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

4. What did Jesus look like?

5. What does the name of Jesus mean?

6. What is the Temptation in the desert?

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

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

9. What does Henri Nouwen do that is so unusual?

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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