Two essay questions, each essay should be 2-3 well-developed paragraphs
Exams are open-book: you may consult your notes, provided readings, books, etc.
The essays may take a variety of forms
-An argument: intro and thesis, claim 1 and support, etc., conclusion
-A typology: intro, type 1, type 2, etc., conclusion
-A simple story: beginning, middle, and end
-A comparison of two or more things
Most important is whether your essay makes concrete claims and supports them through appeal to course material (understood correctly).
Please look at the rubric – notice that you cannot earn points if you submit an essay that does not engage explicitly with the course material and scriipture. That means that you must refer to specific authors and ideas, quoting both assigned readings and scriipture.
Question Prompts:
Answer two of the following (1st prompt is question 1, 2nd prompt is question 2):
-What is the mission of God and how is this connected to the triune identity of God?
-How does the beginning of the biblical story (either Genesis 1-3 or Genesis 1-2) prepare us for the end of the biblical story?
-What difference would it make if contemporary Christians better understood the gospel and sin?
-What sort of human action does the mission of God call forth and why does God’s mission involve humans and human action at all?
Category: Theology
-
Title: The Mission of God and Its Connection to the Triune Identity
-
Exploring the Use of the Old Testament in the New: Current Trends and Future Perspectives
Using the ATLA database in the Harold F. Hunter Online library, find the following article, and write a 400-word response to it.
Docherty, Susan E. 2015. “‘Do You Understand What You Are Reading?’ (Acts 8.30): Current Trends and Future Perspectives in the Study of the Use of the Old Testament in the New.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 38 (1): 112–25. -
Title: The Cooperative Program: Connecting Local, State, and National Levels of Ministry
summarize the Cooperative Program work at the Local, State, and National levels. Questions to consider include (but are not limited to):
How does your local church connect with your local association?
What sorts of local cooperative ministries is your church involved in?
What is the status of your state Baptist association, and how does your church relate to it?
On the national level, how does your church related to the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole?
What are the various entities of the SBC?
visit your local association website, the state Baptist convention website, and the SBC website to inform your writing. -
Title: “Defining Love through Augustine’s Confessions and Gregory of Nyssa’s On Virginity” In this essay, we will be answering the question of what love means according to Augustine, as explored in his Confessions, and how his
Write a essay, 1.5 line spacing, font size 12 Times New Roman or equivalent to answer the following question:
What is love according to Augustine?
You must engage at least one other secondary source from the course reader. ( The Secondary source is the 04 Gregory PDF I submitted. The Primary source is the confessions I submitted as well.)
Write the question that you wish to answer in your essay as the title. In your introduction, clearly specify your thesis statement and the structure of your essay. For the thesis statement it has to be in a format where you say “In this essay we will be answering the question …”
You are not allowed to use any other sources other than what I have submitted. It has to be a close reading and there has to be a lot of citations. When you cite you can just write the page number and which paragraph it was in please.