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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 Dr. Paul Brand specialize in?

2. What does Yancey think of what the church brings?

3. Who wrote Mere Christianity?

4. What does Yancey say the epicenter of the disciples belief is?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who were the first witnesses to the risen Christ?

3. Who betrays Jesus to the Jewish and Roman authorities?

4. What did the Zealots want to do in the 1st century?

5. What is the significance of the grandmother's tombstone, which says, "Waiting"?

6. What did the Pharisees of Jesus's day think of him?

7. Why does Yancey title Chapter 11 "A Morning Beyond Belief?"

8. What did Jesus mean by the Kingdom of God?

9. What did Yancey's study of the Old Testament teach him about the word Messiah?

10. Why was Jesus's attitude towards women so revolutionary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the contrast that Yancey draws between the modern American depiction of Christmas and what he understands might have been the actual experience? What is the modern culture missing about who Jesus was in terms of his birth?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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