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Essays
- How does the resurrection of Jesus Christ shape Christian ethics?
- Outline the key features of the modernist/secular understanding of society. Illustrate your essay with examples drawn from social life in New Zealand.
- With reference to specific texts, critically examine Hermann Spieckermann's comments that, "Above all, the structure of the Book of Judges has made the Deuteronomistic History into an etiology of the guilt of the nation. The clear assignment of guilt implies at the same time the acquittal of God.
- What were the main features of the Roman religious context in which early Christianity developed? How did that context shape the way in which the followers of Jesus were received?
- What factors might lead one to question the "conversion" of Constantine? To what extent do you question it?
- Re-write Judges 19 1-30 from the point of view of the Levite
- Who has Mark shown Jesus to be in
Mark 1:1-20? What does the passage say about discipleship?
- What were the causes and the effects of the Avignon papacy and the great western schism?