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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 Ascension?

2. How is God's kingdom different than a human kingdom, according to Yancey in Chapter 13?

3. What for Yancey does the Old Testament underscore?

4. What did Jesus believe was the true power?

5. What does Yancey learn from the kitten's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What event of the Last Supper startles Yancey?

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

7. What was Jesus's first miracle?

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

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

10. What does Yancey note about the end times?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The book begins with a personal account of Yancey's life in Christianity.

1) What is Yancey's personal story in terms of his understanding of Jesus?

2) How does his history growing up in the church affect this book?

3) Why does he use his personal experience?

Essay Topic 2

What in the Pharisee-influenced world that Jesus lived in did he stand against? Why was he so radical in terms of his own present day religious climate?

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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