HIST 209--FIRST MIDTERM EXAMINATION Winter 2004 Part I-10 minutes (3 points per term) Identify each of the following persons/terms; be sure to mention their historical significance: Athanasius Marcion Donatists Part II--5 to 10 minutes (6 points) In Jaroslav Pelikan's discussion of the iconoclastic controversy, what are tw...

So, I have my History of Christianity midterm in an hour and a half. So, to study, I'll type out what I'm going to be tested on. Yipes. That's all I have to say, really. Idenitify: apostacy Apostacy refers to the sin commited by Christians who caved under persecutiona nd offered sacrifices to the emperor. During the early...

For those of you who (like me) are nerdy computer-types, here's an interesting bit of code I just wrote: /** * Convert given Binary Search Tree into an ordered linked list. * @param root the BinaryNode that is the root of the tree to order and link * @return the first Link in the ordered linked list * @author Brendan Riber...

History 209 (The History of Christianity) is really quite interesting. Of course, the UW being a (very) secular university, the slant with which it's taught is a little obnoxious; the professor likes to illustrate differences in Christian thought, and emphasize the struggle that it took to reconcile those differences. We l...

Merry Christmas to everyone. It's a great and mysterious thing that God descended to earth to live with us and die for us; he's the balm in Gilead, the one who can heal our wounds. I wish we all could forget all our petty issues and think about that, even just for this one day....

I've been reading over a paper that we used for teaching youth group a few months ago. It's a history of the English Bible, and it provides a lot of very interesting information. The timeline that it sets up is very interesting, but the handout itself didn't have the information that I was looking for on it. I wanted to kn...

So, I've been frustrated by a trend in some of the responses to different philosophical writing that I've read (for my philosophy class). There's an unquestioned dismissal--"the path not trodden"--that occurs when evaluating some points. I have three examples of this: Socrates' dialogue with Euthyphro, Bennett's commentary...