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10Siewerth, Gustav. “Original Sin and Concupiscence”, Communio, v.27, Spring 2000,pp.46-57.Tavard, George. From Bonaventure to the Reformers. Milwaukee: Marquette UniversityPress, 2005.Theisen, Jerome. Community and Disunity: Symbols of Grace and Sin. Collegeville,MN: St. John's University Press, 1985.Timpe, Kevin. “Grace and Controlling What We Do Not Cause”, Faith and Philosophy,v.24, no.3, 2007, pp. 284-99.Vander Laan, David. “The Sanctification Argument for Purgatory”, Faith andPhilosophy, v.24, no.3, 2007, pp. 331-39.Viladesau, Richard. The Reason for our Hope: An Introduction to ChristianAnthropology. New York: Paulist Press, 1984.“Theosis and Beauty”, Theology Today, v.65, no.2, 2008, pp.180-90.Volf, Miroslav. The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition amid Modernity andPostmodernity. Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 2004.Walls, Jerry L. Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy. Oxford: OUP, 2002.Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation. Oxford: OUP, 2011.West, Christopher. Theology of the Body Explained. Boston: Pauline Books, 2003.Zizlioulas, John D. Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church.Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1985.OUTLINE INFORMATIONThe purpose of the outline is to get you thinking about a topic early in thesemester and to begin planning how you will approach that topic. A good outlineprovides not only general headings but articulates specific sub-topics. You shouldprovide a structure for the paper as a whole and a structure for each part of the paper.This will help you to think through what you want to present and how you want topresent it. What is your central question/thesis? What background do you need topresent it? What key themes or points do you want to develop? In what order will youpresent them? The greater detail in which you can outline this, the better your finalproduct will be.As a first outline, this will be provisional. Some elements of it may change as you
11do further reading and as you begin to write. While you will hand the outline in withyour final paper, there is no penalty for making these kinds of changes – that is part of theprocess.Another part of the assignment is producing an initial bibliography. Here again,this will likely change to some degree as the project develops. An annotatedbibliography is one that gives a brief description of the contents and approach of eachwork cited. Here is an example:Kelly, Anthony. Eschatology and Hope. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.Kelly looks at traditional topics of the “last things” – death, heaven, hell, andpurgatory – but within the context of a well-developed theology of hope. Heintegrates scriptural and traditional perspectives with contemporary questions andperspectives within each theme.RESEARCH ESSAY INFORMATIONPICKING A TOPICThe first task of writing an essay is picking a topic. It is best to think in terms of aquestion you have or an issue you want to explore rather than a topic that you think ismanageable. You will write a better essay if you care about the subject matter. Since theassignment is fairly concise you need to keep your focus narrow. As you read and thinkabout the area in which you are interested, always think about narrowing it down. Forexample, you do not want to write an essay about grace in Augustine's thought; that is abook-length topic. Instead, you might want to write on the distinction between freedomand free will in Augustine, how the two creation stories in Genesis differ and arecomplementary, Karl Rahner's understanding of the universal character of grace, and soon. This process of refining and focusing your issue needs to be done in the first stages.The aim should always be depth rather than breadth - saying something incisive about awell defined issue rather than covering a lot of ground superficially. Remember that youdo not have to include everything you learn in the course of your research in the finaldraft. Writing the essay should be an opportunity to learn; the final product is just theend result of a larger process of investigation.PARTS OF THE ESSAYSYour essay should have two main parts. You have picked a manageable, tightlydefined topic. You now want to examine the texts that are central to your topic, as wellas using other sources to provide background and context. The first part of your paper
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