Category: Religious studies

Questions: What does Daly say about ‘problem’ and ‘method’? What traditions is she responding to? What are her assumptions about religion? God? Consider ‘God as Verb’. How is Daly a departure from what we have read so far? What does she propose for religion?

FOOTNOTES citations & Bibliography Preparation of eight 1-page responses to questions based on the assigned primary source readings for the week and discussion questions provided. Space limitations prevent extensive quoting from primary sources, but you should indicate where important points supporting your answers are found with parenthetic page, section, or paragraph numbers, as appropriate. Justo…

Warmup Questions Pick 2 to answer: In what two aspects does Freud characterize human civilization? How are they related? Why does he feel civilization needs to be protected against individuals? What are the mental assets ofcivilization? How do prohibitions operate? What is the superego and how does it work? What is the role of ideals?…

2700–3000-word research paper, not including footnotes and bibliography, focusing on The Covenants of the Bible and Their Significance. This paper should contain a cover page, introduction, body, conclusion, and bibliography. A minimum of 7 reputable academic sources beyond the course textbooks are required. As the name suggests, the paper should be a piece of academic…

Islam is a religion that non-Muslims often think they know all about, only to discover that they really don’t. It is also, like all religions, more diverse than Muslim practitioners within specific communities are often aware of. So, whatever your relationship to the tradition, let’s do the classic “3-2-1” discussion exercise to lay some of…

2 pages: based on the readings about spiritual practices so far, what practice(s) do you feel Week 6 Meditation & concentration • One interesting concept Foster noted in Celebration of Discipline, is “Sanctifying the Imagination” (Foster, pg. 25) on thoughts and centering our attention. Frances de Sales notes, “by means of the imagination we confine…

Reply to threads and address your classmates’ thoughts and ideas. The content of each reply must reflect an excellent knowledge of the reading and interact with both the thread and relevant chapter material. You must support your thoughts and ideas with content from Everyday Bible Study.

Write a four-page reflection paper on the following question: “Is the unique SDA understanding of the Sanctuary Doctrine true (solidly based in Scripture), in light of major objections raised to the doctrine?” (See the 10 major issues summarized at the end of chap. 4 in Song for the Sanctuary.) Please use the book as directed:(Davidson,…

3) Field Learning Essay. The principal purpose of this assignment is to practice and demonstrate an increase in your skills of observation and capacity to do pastoral theology and care reflections on your observations. See Appendix B for further instructions Instructions for Field Learning Essay Each participant will make a field visit to a pastoral…

Do a brief analysis of the related field (ex. if you plan on being a nurse, your field would be medicine; a social worker would be sociology; business would be economics, etc.), and its relationship to religion. How has your particular field helped contribute to the understanding of religion? Give a brief summary of the…