| 词条 | Sunday school answer |
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"Sunday school answer" is a pejorative[1] used within Evangelical Christianity[1] to refer to an answer as being the kind of answer one might give to a child.[2] The phrase derives its name from the concept that certain answers are likely to be an appropriate answer to a question asked in a Sunday school even if one has not heard the question.[3] These answers include Jesus, sin, and the cross.[4] For example, if a Sunday school teacher were to ask the question, "Now class, what is brown and furry and collects nuts for the winter?", a student might respond, "It sure sounds like a squirrel, but... is it Jesus?"[5] The term "Sunday school answer" is commonly used to criticize someone for attempting to answer a complex question with an answer that is simplistic, that has not been thought out well, or that is not connected with reality.[6] It can also be used to criticize someone for boastfully trying to call attention to their knowledge of the Bible.[7] According to James W. Fowler's stages of faith development, people who are in Stage 4, the "Individuative-Reflective" stage, find such answers an impediment to addressing new questions that they wish to ask.[8] In her book Love Letters to Miscarried Moms, Samantha Evans argues that answers dismissed as Sunday school answers "for being obvious, corny and surface-level answers... are most often the right answers".[9] National Basketball Association player Jeremy Lin said in a 2013 interview that, although he "knew the Sunday school answers" while he was growing up, it wasn't until he became a high school freshman and joined a youth group where he experienced "radical love" that he felt like he wanted to commit to Christianity.[10]In Mormonism"Sunday school answer" is also used in the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to refer to trite answers that one might provide to a question posed during the church's Sunday School classes. Such answers include "reading the scriptures, praying daily, serving ... family and others, and attending the temple and ... Sunday meetings".[11] Church members sometimes argue that if the Sunday School answers are truly implemented in one's life, they are the answers to life's challenges.[11][12][13] References1. ^Wax (2013), p. 24. 2. ^1 Sanders (2009), p. 41. 3. ^Moore (2006), p. 80. 4. ^Lawrence (2010), p. 38. 5. ^Weibel (2007), p. 28. 6. ^Hunt (1997), p. 47. 7. ^Putman (2010), p. 142. 8. ^Galindo (2004), p. 103. 9. ^Evans (2011), p. 37. 10. ^{{Cite news|work=The Christian Post|title=Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be|author=Murashko, Alex|date=October 2, 2013|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/interview-jeremy-lin-on-embracing-linsanity-spotlight-where-god-wants-him-to-be-105723/|accessdate=June 1, 2015}} 11. ^1 Emma Addams, [//www.lds.org/liahona/2012/10/sunday-school-answers "Sunday School Answers"], Liahona, October 2012. 12. ^Kate Manning, [//www.lds.org/church/news/byu-idaho-students-told-to-let-their-light-shine "BYU–Idaho Students Told to Let Their Light Shine"], lds.org, 22 June 2015. 13. ^R. Bruce Money, [//speeches.byu.edu/talks/r-bruce-money_lords-country-kingdom-passport/ "The Lord’s Country and Kingdom–Your Passport"], speeches.byu.edu, 22 July 2014. Bibliography
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