Essay

FINAL ESSAY – Due March 3, 2019

· Construct a short essay on one of the seven deadly sins (vices) as discussed in the DeYoung text. A successful essay will at minimum contain the following:

· Follow a style format. APA, Turabian, and MLA are all acceptable formats for this assignment. Here is a link for good resources on the style formats that we use in the College of Arts & Sciences.

· Be between 1500 and 2000 words, including title page and list of references.

· Have at least five additional scholarly sources beyond the textbooks in this course as support for your observations and proposals. Here is a link to the Library guide for Theological Studies at the Regent Library. This will be helpful for you as you look for further sources.

· Have a robust definition and discussion on the particular vice that you have chosen to write on. Make sure that you identify how this vice is operating in the contemporary world.

· Describe how the opposite Biblical virtue to the vice you are describing combats and addresses this particular sin.

· Show how the enduring questions of truth, goodness and beauty assist us identifying, arresting and addressing this particular vice in our contemporary world.

· Have a clear thesis statement in the opening paragraph of the paper.

· The title of your essay. Lust and Love. How they are very much related yet so different.

· The deadly vice and the opposite Biblical virtue you intend to focus on your essay on (the topic of your essay). Lust vs Love

· Five scholarly sources that you will use as support in your essay (additional to the textbooks in this course)

1. Lust : What We Know About Human Sexual Desire http://pv5wz3vx2f.search.serialssolutions.com/?sid=sersolReport&genre=book&SS_PostParamDict=disableOneClick&SS_source=42&title=Lust+%3A+what+we+know+about+human+sexual+desire&paramDict=en-US

This source will be helpful for my essay in that it will provide me with a better understanding of human sexual desires which can ultimately lead to lust

2. Discovering the Bible : Seven Deadly Sins

http://blog.adw.org/2018/02/the-seven-deadly-sins-lust/

This source will provide me with an understanding of lust from a Biblical perspective

3. Lust : The Seven Deadly Sins

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4. Love and Lust

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201407/love-lust

This source will provide me with insight as to how lust relates to marriages an what effect it can have on a marriage

5. Is Lust Fornication

https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/1371-is-lust-fornication

This source will provide me with a Biblical view of the consequences of lust leading to fornication

6. (Deyong) pages 159-79

This source provides information that will help me answer the question to my topic lust vs love how they are very much related, yet different. It will also provide me insight on how this vice(lust) can be transformed into virtue(love)