Question 1

Father James Martin's starting point is a classical theological statement.  What is it?

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Jesus is fully human and fully divine

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Jesus is immaculately conceived.

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Jesus is the son of Mary, virgin and mother.

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Jesus is the eternal Son of God.

Question 2

Father James Martin wants us to remember that Jesus isn't ________________ but is a flesh-and-blood, real life, honest to God man who experienced everything that human beings do.

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God pretending to be human

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Jesus pretending to be holy

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A human pretending to be God.

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Jesus pretending to be a Jewish person

Question 3

What interaction does Jesus have that causes him to learn that his ministry extends to everyone?

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He rebukes a woman who asks him to heal her daughter, equating her to a dog.

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He heals a woman who has dropsy.

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He rebukes a woman who asks him to heal her daughter, equating her to a demon.

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He preaches the parable of the Prodigal Son

Question 4

Thomas Jefferson writes his own Gospel because he is nervous about things he sees in the Gospels.  What are those things in the Gospel that makes him nervous?  Who does Jesus appear as in the Gospel Thomas Jefferson writes?

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Jefferson is nervous about Jesus' miracles.  Jesus looks like Jefferson himself.

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Jefferson is nervous about Jesus looking too much like a human. Jesus looks like a holy saint.

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Jefferson is nervous about Jesus looking like a Jewish man.  Jesus looks like an atheist.

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Jefferson is nervous about Jesus' radical teachings.  Jesus looks like a radical political leader.

Question 5

What is the meaningful moment that Father James Martin has that causes his heart to burst with elation?

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When he translates the first words of the Gospel of John from Greek to English

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When he translates the Psalms from Hebrew to English

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When he reads the genealogy of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew

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When he reads the stories of the Judges and the Prophets

Question 6

What is a "Christology from below?"

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Using archeological and historical tools to understand the language, sociology, economy, and culture of the time of Jesus.

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Understanding that Jesus is not as important as other religious figures.

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Using literary resources to promote the idea that Jesus is just another human person, like other humans.

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Understanding that Jesus is a person who existed in history but whose life transcends history and extends into other times.

Question 7

What two kinds of questions are important for understanding who Jesus is?

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Questions about Jesus of history and about Christ of faith

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Questions about Jesus of the Bible or of extra-biblical sources.

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Questions about Jesus' existence or his non-existence

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Questions about Jesus' economic status or his language.

Question 8

What does Ignatian Contemplation involve?

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Imagining yourself in a Gospel passage, noticing what you take in through your senses, and then reflecting on what you learned about Jesus from that imaginative experience.

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Imagining yourself as a saint, and then inhabiting that vision for your ideal self.

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Praying with a priest at mass in order to understand what it means to be Catholic

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Praying with the Gospels so that you see how Jesus lived at a certain time and place in history, time, and culture.

Question 9

Beyond encountering Jesus in the Gospels, where does Father James Martin say that he encounters Christ?

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In his everyday life, as Mother Theresa encountered Christ in her ministry, in, "distressing disguise."

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In his everyday life, because he hangs out with lots of other Christians who read the Bible.

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In and through the sacred art that he encounters in his daily life.

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In the Eucharist at mass, because Jesus is present in the Eucharist.

Question 10

What deepened Father James Martin's appreciation of the Gospels and his faith in them?

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Seeing what Jesus saw and standing where Jesus stood.

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Seeing how Jesus was portrayed as a holy person.

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Watching a video of someone visiting the Holy Land

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Reading them while visiting the holy land.

Question 11

What does Father James Martin see that helps him realize that Jesus tells stories about things that he and his followers were seeing in their everyday life?

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Different kinds of terrain, rocky ground, fertile ground, thorny plants.

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Different kinds of believers, strong and weak, unsure and sure.

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Different kinds of plants: fig trees, mustard seeds, grape vines

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Different kinds of people, holy and sinful, young and old, confused and wise.

Question 12

Why does Father James Martin think it's valuable to learn about who he understands Jesus to be?

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It may cause people to see Jesus in an entirely new way.

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It may cause people to misunderstand Jesus in the Gospels

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It may cause people to see Jesus as a thoughtful political philosopher.

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It may cause people to become born again.

Question 13

Why is it a good thing that Gospel writers do not include explanations of the parables?

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they leave them open ended to invite us to engage with them.

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They intentionally make them confusing to keep people from believing Jesus' message

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The parables do not have meaning and so it would be lying if they explained their meaning

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The parables are supposed to have one meaning that is only available to the smartest people.

Question 14

What happens if we limit parables to having only one meaning? (HINT: aesthetic in this context just means beauty)

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It destroys their beauty and ethical potential.  Good storytelling has many meanings.

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It ensures that people will learn them.

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It highlights how important they are to Jesus

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It makes them only for the smartest people who can understand them

Question 15

What is one reason why the Gospel of Mark portrays the disciples as not very good at understanding Jesus’ message?

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we readers are called to go beyond the disciples’ actions to truly be followers of Jesus

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The disciples were perfect and could not make mistakes.

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We readers understand that the disciples were misunderstood by Luke.

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The disciples were not wise or smart in following out Jesus' message

Question 16

What makes the parables mysterious or difficult?

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They bring to the surface unasked questions and reveal answers that we refuse to acknowledge.

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They bring to the surface the things that we do not know yet.

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They have weird meanings that are different than most people can understand.

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They have important truths but are outdated and not relatable anymore.

Question 17

What are examples of platitudes that parables have been tamed into?  (Platitidues are statements that have been used too many times to be useful or thoughtful.)

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God loves us, be nice, the world will be OK if we believe in Jesus.

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God has a divine plan for every human person, and they can pray to be more attuned to that plan.

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God allows for suffering in the world and the exploration of this truth is called theodicy.

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Jesus is the eternal Son of God who is mysteriously Incarnated at a time in history.

Question 18

What are the consequences of settling for the easy lessons of the parables?

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We lose the way Jesus’ followers would have heard the parables and the genius of Jesus’ teaching.

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We misunderstand what Moses says and does during his life

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We have a better understanding of Jesus' teachings.

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We allow Jesus to communicate his message to us, which was meant to be easy to imitate in our everyday lives.

Question 19

Instead of thinking of what the parables mean, we would learn more by thinking about what the parables do, for example:

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provoke, confront, disturb

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Comfort, instruct, make happy

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Make sense of, care for, abide by

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Contend with, appease, cajole

Question 20

Where are the parables originally found?

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The Jewish Scriptures

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The New Testament

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The Koran

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The Gospel according to Mary Magdalene

Question 21

Stories are a part of ______________ and parables are a part of ___________________.

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culture, Jewish culture

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families, Jesus' message

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learning, learning about Jesus

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Life, meaningful life

Question 22

What is the primary way to distinguish between a parable and an allegory?  (For example, an allegory is the idea that Aslan from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe represents Jesus).

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A parable has all the information you need to understand its meaning, an allegory does not.

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A parable has only one meaning, and an allegory has many meanings

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Everyone can understand a parable, not everyone can understand an allegory.

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An allegory is part of the secular world, parables are part of religious worlds.

Question 23

The parables tend to be humorous, and there are different kinds of humor.  What is one example of the parables being absurd to the point of being humorous?

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in the parable of the woman and the lost coin, the idea of a  king on the floor looking for a coin is ridiculous.

Question 24

Why is historical context important for understanding the parables?

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If the context is wrong, they can be interpreted incorrectly.

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The context is the primary message that Jesus intends

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The context is the main idea of the parable

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If the context is wrong, then the parable can only be understood by people who were there to listen to Jesus share the parable.

Question 25

Luke is part 1 of a 2 part series.  What is the second book called?

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Acts

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Mark

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John

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Paul

Question 26

Why does Luke write his Gospel?

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He wants to show how the story of Jesus is the fulfillment of the stories of the Old Testament

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He wants to show that the story of Jesus is only for elites to understand.

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He misunderstands the message of Jesus

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He believes that the other authors were wrong.

Question 27

Which parallel birth stories does Luke tell in the introduction to his Gospel?

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Jesus and John the Baptist

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John the Baptist and Paul

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Mary and Joseph

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Jesus and Isaiah

Question 28

What dramatic divine event happens at Jesus' baptism?

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God says to Jesus: "You are my beloved Son."

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Jesus turns water into wine

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Jesus turns dazzlingly white

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Jesus multiplies the loaves and fishes.

Question 29

How far back does Luke trace Jesus' genealogy?

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To Adam

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To Abraham

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To Moses

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To Isaiah

Question 30

What is NOT a  major aspects of Jesus' "Manifesto of His Upside Down Kingdom?"

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Loving only those people who do the right thing in God's eyes

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servant leadership

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God's love reverses our value systems

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radical generosity

Question 31

What major Old Testament person does Luke say that Jesus is going to imitate?

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Moses, leading all people on an exodus, a path to freedom

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Isaiah, Jesus talks about the coming Emmanuel

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Ezekiel, Jesus does strange things to capture people's attention

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King David, Jesus is a servant leader who has a close relationship with God the Father

Question 32

What are the two types of people that Jesus banquets with in the second half of the Gospel of Luke?

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Jewish leaders and members of his new kingdom, the poor.

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Women leaders and Jewish leaders

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The political leaders of Judaism and Islam

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Leopards and sick people

Question 33

Why is Jesus put on trial at the end of his life?

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He is accused of attempting to be an earthly king and overthrow the current political leaders

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He is accused of being unable to pay for the loans he has taken out

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He is accused of trying to start his own Church, which he calls the Christian Church

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He is accused of lying to people and exploiting (taking advantage) of them

Question 34

What does the criminal say to Jesus shortly before both of them die?

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Remember me, Oh Lord, when you come into your Kingdom

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I am your beloved son, in whom I am well pleased

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I knew you were a fraud

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Blessed are the poor, for the Kingdom of God is theirs

Question 35

What is strange about the story of the Journey to Emmaus?

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Jesus appears to his followers after the resurrection, but they don't recognize him at first.

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Jesus dies, tragically, on the cross.

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Jesus enters the city riding on a donkey.

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Jesus has the last supper with his disciples

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