CLAS / PHIL 2610  Paganism to Christianity

Preparation for Final Examination

Saturday May 4, 2002 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. in CLRE 207

(Bring Blue Book or Paper)

 

The final will consist of three parts:  identifications, multiple choice, essays.  It will cover material from Lecture 14 (March 7) through Lecture 28 (May 2) except Lecture 15 (The New Testament Tradition) and Lecture 17 (Special Presentation).

 

Identifications

 

The identifications will be taken only from the list offered below.  There will be six questions taken from this list of fourteen.  You should be prepared to give four or five detailed sentences/bullet points which include all important information:  names, dates, places, major trends etc...  The more information you can give, the more likely you are to get full credit. 

 

Council of Nicaea (Lect. 22)

Antony Abbot (Lect. 24/Reading Guide 13)

Hypatia of Alexandria (Lect. 26)

Julian the Apostate (Lect. 27)

Great Persecution (Lect. 21)

Manichaeism (Lect. 21)

Perpetua (Lect. 21/Reading Guide 10)

Augustine of Hippo (Lect. 28)

Constantine (Lect. 19)

Paul of Tarsus (Lect. 16)

Gnosticism (Lect. 21)

Cult of the Saints (Lect. 23)

Gospel of Mark (Lect. 14/Reading Guide 8)

Athenagoras (Lect. 20/Reading Guide 11)

 

Multiple Choice

 

These questions will number 40 and will be on factual information taken from the lectures and the text-books.  Use your lecture outlines to help you sort through the material in the texts.  There will be no multiple choice questions from material which was not covered in lecture.

 

Essays

 

The essays will cover material we read for our discussions on Thursdays.  The questions will be formulated based on the reading guides that I have distributed in class.  These include the reading guides on the Gospel of Mark (8), Acts of the Apostles (9), Passion of Perpetua (10), Life of Antony (13), Eunapius (14), and Augustine’s Confessions (15).  There will be no essay on Athenagoras and the Apologists (11) or Socrates Ecclesiastical History (12).  I will offer a choice of four essays from which you will write two.  This means that you should prepare at least four topics to guarantee you will get a question you can handle.