To call an answer a "Sunday school answer" is to suggest that the answer could have been provided at a Sunday school by a child who was not even listening to the question.
"Sunday school answer" is a pejorative[1] used within Evangelical Christianity[2] to refer to an answer as being the kind of answer one might give to a child.[1] 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]
Some Christian educators raise the concern that kids are getting too much Sunday School, eventually leading to spiritual burnout.[10]
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 was not 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.[11]
^Murashko, Alex (October 2, 2013). "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". The Christian Post. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
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