Personal Response Paper Assignment - Due Monday October 31st

Hi everyone,

just to let you know that the good copy of your Personal Response paper assignment will be due on Monday, October 31st.

Homework for Wednesday, October 16th

Hi everyone,

please ensure that you have read all of Chapter 6 in the Questions of God for this coming Wednesday's class. There will be a reading quiz at the start of class.

Also, if you have been absent during the last 1 or 2 classes, students have been given class time to work on their personal response papers. You will likely not receive anymore class

time to work on this assignment.

Homework Due for Monday, October 17th

Hi everyone,

1) Read pgs. 126-141 of Chapter 6 in Questions of God

2) During Friday's class, students had the block to work on their personal response paper assignment. Student's will also be given Monday's class to continue working on the assignment. See previous blog post for more details on the assignment.

Bible homework - Due Friday, Oct 14th

1) Read Chapter 5 of Questions of God (there will be a reading quiz on Friday's class)

2) The assignment will be 1000-1500 words in length, typed in WRCA format

2) To help determine which of the nine topics would be best for you to write on, identify the top 4-6 "TSN turning points" - incidences, occurences and events that have happened to you, personally, that you feel are most responsible for shaping the worldview that you currently possess today. See what these 4-6 events have in common with each other. Do they all have to do with relationships and the way they have impacted your life? Do they have to do with good or bad things that have happened to you in your life? Or maybe they all have to do with the way you view good and evil in the world. See what theme emerges from these events and match this theme with the question that is the closest match because this will be the easiest for you to write about! Topic chosen!

Once you have chosen your topic, the rest is easy. Have a look at the website below and surf around- it has TONS of helpful stuff that will help to give you direction. Above all else, remember that the purpose of the assignment, is to talk about YOU! While it will be helpful to engage in the questions raised by both Lewis and Freud, ultimately 90% of what you write should be about you- your experiences, how your perspectives and opinions have been shaped and formed.

Have a look at this website for ideas- TONS of helpful stuff!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/

Questions of God

1. Transcendent Experience

· How much do our early childhood experiences shape our worldview and our choices?

· Education/ school experience

· Family and personal trials

· Standards/morals

· Relationships that have shaped you

2. Science or Revelation?

· Is the scientific method compatible with the Bible and concepts of revelation?

· Connections with God = emotional vs. rational

· Science is theory based vs. God/Christianity provable (?)

3. The Exalted Father

· Do our early relationships color the attitudes we develop later in life either toward or away from the concept of an ultimate authority?

· How does our early life affect the choices that we make later in life?

4. Why Believe?

· Does the persistent human longing for God prove His existence?

· Transition from child worldview to adult worldview

· Meaning of joy for believers vs. unbelievers

· Intellectual transition vs. emotional transition

· Longing for God

5. Miracles

· How would Jesus Christ be received if he lived here and now?

· Definition

· Do miracles exist in the scientific worldview?

6. Love Thy Neighbor

· Is it really possible to love our neighbor as ourselves?

· Personal experience with the 4 loves (Lewis’ description)

· Connection between love and happiness (believers and non-believers)

7. The Human Condition

· How can one look at and explain evil in the world?

· Do we all have a dark side (role of sin)

· Are we created evil? (believers and non-believers)

· Was evil intentionally created/planned?

8. Moral Law

· Where and how do we get our concept of right and wrong?

· Are we created with a moral law (God-given vs. other origins)

9. Suffering and Death

· How do you equate an omnipotent, all-loving being with what we’ve come to expect and experience in our lives?

Homework for Monday, October 3rd

Hi everyone,

Please complete your assigned reading from pgs.76-top of 85 (ending with Lewis describing himself as "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."

You will have a reading quiz at the start of tomorrow's Bible class.

Thanks!

~Mrs.T

p.s. If you were absent on Friday, I would suggest you swing by the library asap on Monday morning and sign your book out!