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by Maria Calderona prewriting for the major assignment Throughout the book, we see different encounters that Merton has with the importance of vocation, whether it is his own, or someone else’s vocation, that inspire him to do better for himself. The event that really caught my attention, which I wrote my response 5 on, was on the beginning of part three of the book, when Merton explores the

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by Alycia P. I am a very rational person, or at least I like to think so. It is easy for me to sit and dissect a problem, especially one involving calculations and digits. Math comes easy to me for this reason: I can easily identify a problem, and using proven formulas and principles, can manipulate numbers until I get to a unique, correct answer. I enjoy solving these kinds of problems, as

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These questions are particularly interesting in the light of our class topics this week on Biblical criticism.AnonymousOne thing that we discussed in class over the past week was how the crucifixion of Christ can be viewed as a “great trauma” such as September 11th, or the holocaust. I personally find it really hard to think of theology as a form of history based on how I was brought up with

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by Aaron EspinozaWhile I was reading, I came across something that had caught my attention and actually made me think back to my studies from a previous Theology course I had taken at Loyola my freshman year, THEO 112: New Testament. In this specific course, we learned how to look for and interpret apocryphal writing of the New Testament. The passage(s) I came across can be found toward the end

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by CKOne of our first class discussions brought about the topic of liberation theology and its relation to socialism and further Marxist principles. When this question was posed, I began to think about it and tried to come up with a reply that was relevant to class at the time. I made mention that when I thought about socialism, I thought more about economic issues as opposed to moral and

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Here begins a sequence of posts made up of response papers. There are so many I wanted to share that I'll be posting two at a time. The order means nothing; these are chosen essentially at random from the papers I picked.Mystery and Formation of Religionby SUOMYNONA Humans are undoubtedly thinking beings seeking knowledge, understanding and meaning about everything. Humans create or think

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This post is my response paper for the first week. It's a little late, so you guys can feel free to take off points. :-) This is a response to question A, on mystery. Starting tomorrow, I'll be posting some student responses. There were a lot of really interesting ones.In your responses, many of you said love is the greatest mystery in your lives. On the other hand, theologians often say that the

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Here's our first guest post. Thank you, Timmy B.This question was posed in class on Wednesday: "Why study your owntradition, and then why study the traditions of others?"As opposed to simply following the rules and rituals of our tradition,it's important to study it, to ask questions and sometimes challenge it. This allows for a deeper understanding of the tradition of which we area part. Taking

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Welcome to my new students at Loyola. If you're already here, you've probably found our syllabus on blackboard.This is my first semester teaching at Loyola. I'm a grad student in theology at Notre Dame, and I taught there in the spring, but I live here in Chicago, so the commute sucked. I love teaching theology and I look forward to a great first semester at LUC.The blog here is not for course

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I thought of an interesting potential example of something like transubstantiation in "the real world". Now, I hold to the fact that there is no real transubstantiation in nature (it's a mystery, not a problem; we wouldn't expect to find neat explanations, right?). Nevertheless, I was thinking of death. It seems to me that at the moment of death, whatever moment that is, the substance of the

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Most of you by now have chosen your topics and are reading some of your sources. Therefore I'm going to try to forestall panic by talking about your wikipedia contribution. I'm going to start with a grace note, by moving the due date from Monday to Tuesday. (After all, I'm not going to be grading them Tuesday, am I? No, I'm going to be teaching your class on Tuesday. And driving.)First off, the

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I'm doing research today on the Syro-Malabar rite church I mentioned yesterday in class, and I came across an interesting passage. The context is the author, Paul Pallath, is arguing for the historical reliability of the tradition that the church was evangelized by the apostle Thomas himself:[T]he existence of a Christian community in South India in the name of the Apostle [Thomas] from the very

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This post is about sparking your creativity to develop a term paper project.I'm going to concentrate here on three possible projects: Biblical interpretation, classic theology text, or novel/film analysis.1. Biblical interpretation. Let's say you have a favorite passage or Biblical book that we didn't cover (or didn't satisfy you on) in class. Take Job for example. I like Job. I happen to know

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Sorry I've been so silent about possible term paper projects on here. The first part of your term paper, a wikipedia article contribution (not necessarily a whole new article) summarizing the book or articles you've read for your paper, is due March 31. Therefore you should be picking a topic and sources in the next week and a half or so to give you time to read and summarize before then. For the

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I've gotten a few questions about the exam so far. I'm going to post my responses to emailed questions to benefit everybody rather than just the people who've asked so far.The principle of analogy is something we covered the first day of class. It is part of historical criticism and makes it possible to "fill out the picture" given some historical data about a period or group (like we find in the

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I thought it would be a good idea to post some ideas for possible term projects. These can be used as inspiration or clarification of the project, to give you ideas for how to make a term project according to your own interests, or -- if you feel uninspired or stuck -- you can just adopt or adapt one of these for your term project. On the whole I'm going to stick to the most basic outline for

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Talking to the students who dropped by my office hours yesterday (thanks to those of you who did!) and after class with others, together with reading the first reflection paper submissions has made me think about what I can do to help you all assimilate this difficult and complicated material we've been covering. I've got a couple of ideas: some ideas for class structuring, a couple of notes on

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Walter Rast says that one of the big ideas behind tradition history in the Old Testament is that the Old Testament writers had a different perspective on history than modern historians do. He says that in the Old Testament,history encompasses more than the presentation of simple facts. Rather, historical memory in the Old Testament is viewed as being accompanied by interpretations by which the

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Welcome to the Theo 10001 Spring 2008 Foundations class blog for my two sections.The purpose of this blog is to allow us to share our ideas with one another as a class, try out our ideas and practice communicating them in an ungraded format, and play with applying the ideas we're learning in class to our personal experiences.Participation in the blog will count towards your class participation

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