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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 is the image Yancey first has of Jesus?
2. How old is Jesus when he dies?
3. What does Yancey think the church has turned Jesus into, according to Chapter 1?
4. According to Yancy in Chapter 5, why do people like being where Jesus is?
5. In the movie La Dolce Vita, what is the helicopter ferrying?
Short Essay Questions
1. What experience did Yancey have that began to change his understanding of Jesus?
2. What is Yancey's interpretation of why God decided not to come in clouds of glory and fix everything?
3. Where did Philip Yancey first become acquainted with the stories of Jesus?
4. What is Yancey's purpose in writing The Jesus I Thought I Knew?
5. What language did Jesus speak growing up?
6. What does Yancey say the Communist party had trouble with?
7. What may Satan have taken away from the confrontation with Jesus in the wilderness?
8. Why does Yancey grow up not knowing any Jewish people?
9. What does Yancey do with the extremism of Jesus?
10. What does Yancey discover as he begins to study the Jesus of the Gospels?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the psychological realities within the teachings of the Beatitudes? Describe them and why Yancey believes they are so profound.
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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