Primary Sources for Paper Assignments

List #2: Christianity Section

New Testament [all NT sources on course website]:

Those who choose to write about a passage from the Gospels should make sure to look at parallels in other Gospels, as well; please check with me about this via e-mail.

*Mark 1

*Mark 8:27-38

*Mark 13:1-37

*Mark 14:12-25

*Mark 15:33-39

*Matthew 1-2

*Matthew 5-7, esp. 5:17-48

*Matthew 13:1-53

*Matthew 10:1-15

*Matthew 15:1-20

*Luke 1-3

*John 1:1-18

*John 3:1-21

*John 8:31-59

*John 14:1-14

*Acts 1-2

*Romans 4-5

*Galatians 2 & Acts 15:1-29

*Galatians 3:6-29

*Galatians 4:21-31

*Hebrews 11

Early Christianity

*Letter of Peter to James [Course Website]

*Ignatius, Letter to the Romans, esp. 3, 5-6 [Course Website]

*Justin Martyr, First Apology, 1-6 [Course Website]

*Didache, 7-10 [Course Website]

*Acts of Paul and Thecla [Course Website]

*Eusebius, Life of Constantine 24-31 [Course Website]

*Nicene Creed [Course Website]

Medieval to Modern

*Julian of Norwich, Book of Showings, 3, 5, 59 [Course Website]

*Martin Luther, "95 Theses" [Course Website]

*Martin Luther's account of his own conversion [Course Website]

*John Calvin, "Grace and Salvation" [Course Website]

*Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Religionless Christianity," 347-48, 352-57 [Packet]

*Martin Luther King, "Theology--For What?" 384-88 [Packet]