exam

My exam on Thursday seemed to go OK.  There were nine questions, of which you had answer three.  The three I chose were:

1. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the Bebbington 'quadrilateral' as a way of defining evangelicalism.  Are any of the alternatives more satisfactory?
2. Is it fair to categorise evangelical political engagement in Britain in the years 1790-1850 as a series of political crusades against specific sins?
3. 'I am a believer in ecumenicity, evangelical ecumenicity.  To me, the tragedy is that we are divided' (D. M. Lloyd-Jones).  Evaluate the arguments set out in the 1966 Evangelical Alliance debates about evangelicals and denominations, and assess the outcomes.

So...  I think that I answered bits of the first and second one well, and got a lot of information in.  For the third question I got quite a bit down but in my revision I had focused on events leading up to 1966 quite extensively (i.e. the ecumenical movement since the start of the 20th century) and didn't feel that I could find a way in for much of that information (although a friend said to me after that the lecturer had actually said that if you get stuck in an unseen exam you should just write down all the facts that you can remember!).  It will be a nervous few minutes waiting to go in and collect the results in a few weeks time, but I hope I've done enough...

I am now in the process of revising for my final exam which is next Tuesday.  It is an Old Testament theology exam and we know that there will be questions on six topics of which you answer three but unlike history we cannot merely learn three of them because they are going to be coming up in sections (two or three questions per section) and you have to answer one question from each section.  This means, of course, that if I only learn three areas that they could all come up in the same section leaving me with no answers in the other two!  So today I will be continuing my revision, the topic areas being:

• God's self revealing: his names
• God's self revealing: his nature
• Particularism and Universalism
• God's grace in Election and Covenant
• Human suffering and God's faithfulness
• The People of God and Eschatology

I also have an assignment, due on Monday, and which I still need to make some changes to and add a bibliography.

But, heh, what are sunny Saturday's for?

Comments

[Ryan Dunne]

Hope marker doesn't penalise a failure to capitalise God's aitches ;-).