GSHU 199: First-Year Seminar Spiritual AutobiographySmith
Final Exam
Part I: Short Answer (40 pts.)
PURSUING GOD: WANDERERS & SEEKERS (Conversion)
1. Choose one writer from this group and describe how s/he fits the characteristics of this unit. (10 pts.)
Augustine, The Confessions
Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Fire
Emily Dickinson, poems
Charles Colson, Born Again
JOURNEYING TO HOLINESS; PILGRIMS & MISSIONARIES (Commitment)
2. Choose one writer from this group and describe how s/he fits the characteristics of this unit. (10 pts.)
Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative
Anonymous Russian Pilgrim, The Way of a Pilgrim
Rabbi Leon Modena, The Life of Judah
EXPERIENCING GLORY: MYSTICS & VISIONARIES (Encounter)
3. Choose one writer from this group and describe how s/he fits the characteristics of this unit. (10 pts.)
Rbia al-Adawiyya, from her prayers
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
Madame Guyon, autobiography
UNDERSTANDING GOD: PHILOSOPHERS & SCHOLARS (Belief)
4. Choose one writer from this group and describe how s/he fits the characteristics of this unit. (10 pts.)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Abu Hamid Muhammad Ghazali, Deliverance from Error
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
Flannery OConnor, letters
Viktor E. Frankl, Experiences in a Concentration Camp
Paul Claudel, My Conversion
Denise Levertov, poems
Part II: Short Essay (10 pts.)
In the essay we read at the beginning of the semester, Finding Your Hearts True Calling by Gary Selby, vocation was defined as not the job you do, but something which brings you joy and fulfillment and also contributes to the welfare of others.
Please answer the following two questions regarding your understanding of vocation and your First-Year Seminar experience:
In what ways do you now agree and/or disagree with this definition of vocation? (5 pts.)
How has your first-year seminar impacted your understanding of your vocation? If possible, describe how one assignment, discussion, activity, or reading made an impact. (5 pts.)
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