Due Dates for The Theological Mosaic

As you enter the final month or so of the school year, it is wise to review your various assignments and the dates that each are due. So, for your convenience, here are your due dates for the rest of this class.

Exam: Questions up on March 16th. Exams are due in by 4:30 on Friday March 20th.

Journal (both options): April 15th

Paper for Creative Project: March 13th

Creative Project: April 15th

Research Paper: April 20th

Reading Report/Bibliography: April 20th (For your convenience, here is a link to a list of the readings. You can turn in this form.)

If you have questions or need guidance for any of these assignments, feel free to contact either Ed or myself. I have office hours on Wednesday afternoons, but am able to meet at other times if that does not work for you.

Peace,
Chelle

Resources for you!

Throughout this week, I'll be putting up various resources for you. I'll mark them individually for you so that you can find them easily in the weeks to come.

For example, here is the power point from my lecture on Saturday. I have included a number of new slides to help with clarification. Sorry for the jump in my logic when we got to heaven! That will teach me to squeeze together two lecture at the last minute!!!

Trygve & Kristen's power points will be posted in a separate blog post. We are experiencing the inhospitable divide between the worlds of the PC and the Mac. Yes, one day even PCs and Macs will be reconciled with one another. However, until that eschatological event happens, we will search for alternative means of posting the slides.

The peace of Christ to you all. Not an easy peace, not an insignificant peace, not a halfhearted peace, but the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

-Chelle

Schedule for March 13th & March 14th, 2009

Our Guests this Weekend are Dr. Kristen and Rev. Trygve Johnson from Hope College in Holland, MI. I am very excited that they are coming to share with us. Tryg, the campus pastor at Hope, is a very talented sermonator and Kristen is one of the brightest (and most beautiful) women that I know. The Johnson's are thoughtful and interesting folks, so I hope that you will greet them with a very warm Mars Hill welcome. They will take some time on Friday to share their own stories with you. It should be a very thought-provoking weekend that will send you on your way wondering what the resurrection of the body matters to your own life!! Good stuff!

Peace,

Chelle

Friday March 13th (Start Time is 1PM!!!!!)

1.00 ~ Quiz

1:15-2.00 ~ Introductions: Our stories, overview of the weekend, key ideas and readings

2.00-3.15 ~ Lecture: Imagination, story and hope by Trygve

3.15-3.30 ~ Break

3.30-4.45 ~ Lecture: Eschatology Matters--Recent History of millennialism & evangelicalism by Kristen

4.45-6.00 ~ Large Group Discussion

Saturday March 14th (Start Time is 10AM!!!)

10:00-11:45 ~ Discussion: please read the N.T. Wright and the Hart/Bauckham articles

12-1 ~ Lecture: Shalom and the Story of God's Redemption by Chelle

1-2 ~ Lunch!

2-3 ~ Lecture: Barth and Moltmann by Kristen

3-3:15 ~ Break

3:15-3:45 ~ Small Group Discussion on Lewis' The Great Divorce

3:50-5 ~ Bringing it all together: Panel Discussion on Ressurection and Eschatology

A funny for you as you work on your papers!!

Of course none of you would ever sink to this level. On the other hand, the title of Calvin's paper is very reminiscent of many a dissertation title...

Exam Next Week

For all of you who may have forgotten or who are just nervous about such things, I thought that I would write a little reminder that yes indeed we have an exam next week. I will post the questions on the class blog on Monday. There will be about 5 questions, but you will just choose two to write on.

The exam is due by4:30 on Friday. (If you need to mail to MHGS the exam, it needs to be postmarked by that Friday.)

What is the purpose of an exam such as this? My hope is that the exam will be an opportunity for you to express some of your thoughts and opinions about the readings and the class sessions. This means that Ed will be searching for your use and understanding of the assigned readings as well as the integration of the content of the class within your own theological thinking. This is a closed-book exam, but you will have some time to think through the questions before you sit down to your two hours of writing.

I can't really say that this should be a fun activity, but I do hope that it will be fulfilling in some manner. I know that I enjoyed reading your exams last term. Some really good integrative thinking going on inside your heads!!!

See you tomorrow!
Chelle

Vocab for Friday's Quiz:

1. Eschatology
2. Eschaton
3. Telos
4. Parousia
5. Utopia
6. Sabbath
7. Millennium
8. Premillennialism
9. Postmillennialism
10. Amillennialism
11. Hope
12. Resurrection
13. Son of Man
14. Day of the Lord
15. Creator ex nihilo
16. Eucharist/The Lord’s Supper
17. Shalom
18. Revelation
19. Hell
20. Heaven
21. The Kingdom of God
22. Apocalyptic

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

Please watch this space for announcements this week. For example, class begins at 1PM this Friday. And yes, we do have a vocab quiz at 1PM this Friday. Thanks for asking!

Peace,
Chelle