Melanie Baffes - Böcker

This practical, how-to book for beginning seminary students offers step-by-step guidelines for typical writing assignments at the master's level. Chapters are included on the most basic and common types of writing in seminary: theological book reviews, exegetical papers, theological essays or summaries, reflection papers, research papers, and sermons. Practical, immediately relevant topics offer guidelines students can use as soon as they need them--as they begin the research and writing process. The content is accessible to all students, including those with no writing or theological background and second-career students who finished undergraduate study many years prior to entering seminary. Samples of each type of paper are included, with step-by-step commentary to help beginning students understand the process.

Garry Wills is the polymathic public intellectual bemoaned as missing from American letters. A professor emeritus at Northwestern University, he has built upon his early studies in classics and patristics, while bringing his considerable intellect to bear on American culture, politics, and religion, notably through provocative articles and books on wars, past and present presidents, and the Catholic Church Wills has distinguished himself in the crowded field of Civil War history; fearlessly taken on the legacies of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, among other presidents; and offered a critical voice in many fraught ethical discussions, especially in the areas of war and peace.Nation and World, Church and God gathers original critical reflections by leading writers and scholars on Garry Wills's life work. Organized around the themes of ""Classics,"" ""Civil War,"" ""War and Peace,"" and ""Theology, Church, and the Arts,"" the book reflects the cultural acumen, fine-grained political analysis, ethical candor, and theological wisdom of one of America's most prolific writers.Contributors: Ward W. Briggs; Douglass Cassel; Bruce Cumings; Reginald Gibbons; Harold Holzer; Jane Levin; Martin E. Marty; Edward Muir; Ingrid Rowland; Sarah Elizabeth Ruden; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Beth M. Sheppard; Sam Tanenhaus; Kenneth L. Vaux; Sara Anson Vaux; Rudolph H. Weingartner; Douglas L. Wilson