Who was Paul? Break what we learn about him? in 300 words or more, Do some research and discuss what the concerns are about Pauline Christianity as different from teachings of Jesus. What is your thought on this matter? Cite any sources you u
Assignment #2 Questions:
1. What are the 3 main categories of attitudes toward religious art? Provide examples.
2. How are religion and the concept of gender connected? Provide an example of how some people have reconciled their personal identity with their religious identity.
3. How do religious creation narratives contribute to people’s view of the natural world and how they orient themselves within it? Provide examples.
4. What are some examples of how religion is portrayed in the media? Are they negative or positive, and why do you think this is?
Please submit your answers as a Word doc using 12-pt font, normal margins, and double-spacing
You will do an analytical review of the book Basic Christianity by John R. W. Stott, compared with Ellen White’s Steps to Christ. This review must be typewritten, Times New Roman, 12 point, double-spaced, and no less than five pages long. Answer the following questions in your review:
What is the objective of the author and how has he met the objective?
Is the book written to a special interest group? Who is the group? Support your answer.
What are the strengths and/or weaknesses of the book with reference to logic, literary style, and choice of material included or excluded from the book?
How has the book affected you spiritually?
Make a statement as to how much of the book you have read.
Contrast and compare Stott with Ellen White’s Steps to Christ.
Include bibliography.
Please discuss the following prompt:
Although Buddhism is able to change, adapt, and be adopted by other cultures and lifestyles, with all these changes, do you think that the original meaning of Buddhism taught by the Buddha himself can be lost or even die? Does the original meaning even matter if it loses its relevancy?
The essay should be approximately 1000 words and include the following:
Use at least one peer reviewed source found outside our course readings;
Use Chicago Manual of Style with footnotes and bibliography for citations.
Two (2) different Essays, 1000 words EACH Please, total of 2000 words.
Please discuss the following prompt:
Although Buddhism is able to change, adapt, and be adopted by other cultures and lifestyles, with all these changes, do you think that the original meaning of Buddhism taught by the Buddha himself can be lost or even die? Does the original meaning even matter if it loses its relevancy?
The essay should be approximately 1000 words and include the following:
Use at least one source from our assigned readings for class;
Use at least one peer reviewed source found outside our course readings;
Use at least once concept found and cited from the courses lectures;
Use Chicago Manual of Style with footnotes and bibliography for citations.
Peer reviews -worth 15 points total (graded separately) – should respond to the essays answering the following questions:
1) What was the author’s main point in the paper (at least one sentence)
2) What did you learn from the paper/what assumptions were challenged in this paper? (at least 2 sentences)
3) What issues did you find problematic in the essay/what points seem to be missing in the essay? (at least 3 sentences)
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Q1 ; Muslims believe Jews and Christians are “People of the Book” who received through the prophets the word/messages of God. These revelations where preserved in the Tanakh and New Testament and were pure when given. However, Muslims believe these scriptures became corrupted over the centuries by scribal/copyist errors. The Quran offers corrections to some of the “errors” of Bible that reveal the development of 7th century CE/1 century AH monotheistic theology. Read the following passages and see if you can identify the correction.
Note: you would benefit from reading the context of the verses listed below.
READ:
TANAKH Genesis 2:1-2 https://biblehub.com/nasb_/genesis/2.htmLinks to an external site.
QURAN Qaf 50:38 https://www.clearquran.com/050.html Links to an external site.
QURAN al-Baqarah (The Heifer) 2:255 https://www.clearquran.com/002.html Links to an external site.
INTERPRET:
What does Genesis say about the resting of God? What does this come to mean in Judaism (and Christianity)? How does the Quran understand Genesis? Does the Quran make a correction to Genesis in these passages?
Q2 ; Muslims believe Jews and Christians are “People of the Book” who received through the prophets the word/messages of God. These revelations where preserved in the Tanakh and New Testament and were pure when given. However, Muslims believe these scriptures became corrupted over the centuries by scribal/copyist errors. The Quran offers corrections to some of the “errors” of Bible that reveal the development of 7th century CE/1 century AH monotheistic theology. Read the following passages and see if you can identify the correction.
Note: you would benefit from reading the context of the verses listed below.
READ:
GENESIS 22 https://biblehub.com/nasb_/genesis/22.htmLinks to an external site.
QURAN as-Saffat (The Aligners) 37:99-109 https://www.clearquran.com/037.htmlLinks to an external site.
INTREPRET:
What is does the Quran see as problematic about Genesis 22? What corrections/additional information does as-Saffat 37 offer?
