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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the nature of the second important distinction Augustine identifies in Book One?
2. Based on Augustine's Preface, what is the perception of critics toward learning?
3. What does Augustine claim to be the central law of love and the message of Christianity?
4. What are the three things Augustine identifies as how God inspires His children?
5. What is the problem for the critics that Augustine addresses in the Preface when they choose to teach?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Augustine recommend as the best method for acquiring rhetorical skill?
2. What inference can be made from the extensive training that Augustine recommends to interpret Scripture?
3. What is Augustine's focus in Book Two?
4. How many types of criticism does Augustine predict he will face over "On Christian Doctrine"?
5. Why does Augustine suggest that Scripture reports the great sins of holy men?
6. Why does Augustine suggest that Christians should learn to use rhetoric?
7. What are the tasks of the orator according to Cicero?
8. What is the illustration Augustine uses to show the difference between things "enjoyed" and things "used"?
9. What does Augustine claim are the two types of signs and how are they defined?
10. What are the two items that Augustine writes that students must differentiate to learn what Scripture teaches?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Augustine warns that coveting negates Christian love. Explain coveting as a motivation and identify how covetousness will motivate someone to take actions that appear to be similar to Christian love. Conclude your explanation with the consequences of a covetous individual misusing the acts of Christian love to the person he/she uses them upon, the person who commits those false acts, and to the image of Christian love.
Essay Topic 2
In the Preface, Augustine explains that refusing to learn from trained and experienced human teachers eliminates an aspiring student from benefiting from communities built upon the principles of Christian love. Identify the principles of the Christian love that Augustine promotes and explain the role that the student is to take in relationship of the community and experienced and trained teachers of Scripture.
Essay Topic 3
Augustine claims that reading Scripture by itself is sufficient to tea scripture. If this is so, please defend reasons for a student devoting themselves to the time for study to learn to interpret Scripture. Does Augustine's claim about the self-sufficiency of Scripture support those who claim "special gifts" are needed to interpret Scripture? In your opinion is the type of work Augustine requires to interpret Scripture more necessary today than in Augustine's time or less so? Why?
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