Religious Quest 5 Page paper

Rev. Paul Hudec, PhD

Week 3 Written Assignment (quiz/journal, etc.)

This assignment will provide evidence regarding mastery of the important concepts of the material through the end of this portion of the course including references (sources) as they refer to each item below. This is a formal paper which is different from the Week 1 informal, reflection paper. Citations linked to sources are required in each of the following topics.

Organize the paper with a header or section title and (you can use single-spacing rather than double-spacing if you’d like) with any references to the text and other sources identified as footnotes or as endnotes or in a proper documentation style at the end of this short paper.

This is not a memory test or assessment on persons, places, or things, but on the quality sources discovered and the material these sources provided along with insights gained in the discussions that logically flow from these sources.

What expert and professional sources have you found in these first three weeks that aid your efforts in this course Religious Quest and how have they helped (list each and what insights have they provided)?

What is the religious quest and how do the attributes of God as discussed in the discussion threads fit within that quest?

What is spiritual growth and what models were explored in the discussion threads?

How does science inform the religious quest?

Each answer to the above questions should be at least ½ page (single-spaced or 1 full page if double-spaced). This assignment should not be more than 5 pages in (narrative) length because this is an assignment, not a final paper. (Do not count the title page or the reference page in the length.) You must cite sources within the narrative and include a reference page of all sources used at the end (APA format). Feel free to use each question as a heading in your paper.

Do not simply copy complete paragraphs or sections from a source(s) as the answer. I want to read how you’ve come to understand the material and are able to arrive at insights for living today. You must include citations within the narrative indicating the sources that provided the facts or insights and using APA Style a reference appears in parentheses (author, year) with the period after the ending parenthesis. Also, note that you must have a Reference page. See the example.

Use Times New Roman 12pt (as the font and size) for this assignment.

Insert page numbers in the upper right corner of this assignment. Paginate the assignment in the upper right corner of each since the default setting has no page numbering.

Complete the written assignment and post it to the Assessment for this week so I can annotate and grade it using MS Word format. See the sample title page for a guide for this assignment and please use it, but make the changes to reflect your work. Be sure to run Spell Check before submitting your paper.

(A sample title page for this assignment follows on the next page. The items in the parentheses are to be changed to reflect your information.)

Religious Quest, RELS 1325

Week 3 Written Assignment

By (student name)

For Rev. Paul Hudec, Ph.D., M.A.P.S., M.B.A.

(day month year)

SAMPLE

References

(Notice that I used Heading 1 as the format for this final page of the paper and this will be important in creating a Table of Contents that is required for the final paper.)

Cunningham, L. (2013). Toward a Definition of Religion. In The Sacred quest: An invitation to the study of religion (Sixth ed.). New York: Nancy Roberts.