| Reading/Discussion Prompts
September 17
- What is Satan's problem?
- What makes Satan heroic?
- How is this work like the Iliad?
- Why is sin unable to close the gate?
September 21
- Why does Man receive grace
despite his fall, yet Satan receives none?
- Is God really in charge,
omnipotent, omniscient, ... while allowing Satan to enter the
garden?
- Why does God plant BOTH trees
in the garden?
- What is "guided free will"?
What is an "umpire conscience"?
September 24 - CLASS WILL
MEET IN STAUFFER CHAPEL
- Read the first two chapters of
Genesis.
- What does "thrice happy" mean?
- Let's discuss the questions
from the September 21 list that you find compelling.
- Remind me to talk about Paper
#1.
September 28
- You are in a state of
perfection for each of the following time periods. What are you
doing? a) one minute, b) one hour, c) one day.
- Who is ultimately to blame
for the fall?
- Was Eve's fall due to reason?
- What is the difference between
knowledge and reason?
- Satan is a tragic hero.
October 1
- Reread the last section of Book
X, lines 720-1104.
- After the fall, how are Adam
and Eve (un)like Satan?
- What is "deathless death"?
- How is death a stroke of genius
on God's part?
- Why must Adam and Eve leave
Paradise? See
Masaccio's rendition.
- Why are there two trees in the
Garden?
- How is the fall a "happy sin"?
- Find a single line in the poem
to answer the question: What is God's objective?
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