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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 a basic reason Yancey is open to believing the Easter story?

2. What does Dr. Paul Brand specialize in?

3. What worries Yancey about modern Christians and politicians?

4. Yancey says that by ascending Jesus took the risk of what?

5. What miracle makes it into all four gospels?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jesus's death on the cross bridge, theologically speaking?

2. What is ironic about Jesus entering into Jerusalem on a donkey?

3. What is unusual about leprosy patients and their illness?

4. When Yancey's kitten is killed, what does he, the child, learn?

5. Who is the only named person in Jesus's parables?

6. What is the one miracle that is in all four biblical gospels?

7. What does Jesus leave behind?

8. What does Yancey say about how Easter affects who Jesus is for us?

9. What does Yancey notice about the last parables that Jesus tells?

10. What does Yancey reveal in Chapter 11 about why he believes in the resurrection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the major stages of the last week of Jesus based on Chapter 10.

1) Identify each stage.

2) What does each stage represent theologically for Yancey?

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 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?

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