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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 Wim Wender makes films about?

2. What does Yancey give up as a result of the Sermon on the Mount?

3. What does Jesus propose for those who look at a woman lustfully?

4. What does Ivan Karamazov write?

5. Who does the German Christian Church admire in 1933?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the one word label Yancey would bestow upon Jesus?

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

8. What does Yancey say about parallel worlds in Chapter 1?

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

10. What does the name of Jesus mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the Gospels mean when they identify Jesus as the Son of God and what then is the importance of his meeting with Satan in the wilderness? Would the meaning change if Jesus were simply a rabbi?

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

Why does Yancey choose the title rabbi to most closely describe who the historical Jesus was? What does rabbi mean? How does Yancey describe what a rabbi is? Why is Jesus a rabbi?

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