Assignment Question
React to this quote from Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, citing three theologians that we have examined in this class: “The enlargement of the bounds of human thinking necessary to absorb intellectually the Christian experience of God did not come of its own accord. It demanded a struggle, in which error was fruitful; here it followed the basic law that everywhere governs the human mind in its advances.” Write a double spaced essay of 8 pages (for undergrad or cert students) or 12 pages (for graduate students) in response to this prompt. You may refer to any of the secondary readings we have read or to my lectures if they help clarify your exposition, but your main sources should be drawn from the primary-source readings considered so far. Cite your sources parenthetically thus: (Ancient author, title, book.chapter) or (Modern author, title, page number without “page, p. or pp.”).Write a double spaced essay of 8 pages (for undergrad or cert students) or 12 pages (for graduate students) in response to this prompt. You may refer to any of the secondary readings we have read or to my lectures if they help clarify your exposition, but your main sources should be drawn from the primary-source readings considered so far. Cite your sources parenthetically thus: (Ancient author, title, book.chapter) or (Modern author, title, page number without “page, p. or pp.”).React to the quote and tie it into these three essays from the book Trinitarian Controversy by William G. Rusch. The three letters/ articles of readings that I want to incorporate from only this book, are The Synodal Letter of the Council of Antioch, A.D. 325 The Creed of the Synod of Nicaea (June 19, 325), and Augustine of Hippo — On the Trinity, Book 9. This argument about WHAT the writer says ought to flow from your careful analysis of HOW the writer communicates. Hence the theological text is your starting point. Decide your general topic, assemble quotes about this topic from throughout your selected work, minutely analyze those quotes, note the themes, arguments, imagery, and word choice that emerge from your minute commentaries on your selected quotes, and formulate topic sentences and a thesis therefrom.This argument about WHAT the writer says ought to flow from your careful analysis of HOW the writer communicates. Hence the theological text is your starting point. Decide your general topic, assemble quotes about this topic from throughout your selected work, minutely analyze those quotes, note the themes, arguments, imagery, and word choice that emerge from your minute commentaries on your selected quotes, and formulate topic sentences and a thesis therefrom.
