Write a full 4 pages of critical reflection on the presentation: what is your position on the issue of divine justice ? How would you support your position? Are there any counterarguments?

Divine Justice

a) Watch a film entitled “God on Trial”:

b) Write a full 4 pages of critical reflection on the presentation: what is your position on the issue of divine justice ? How would you support your position? Are there any counterarguments? If so, how would you deal with them? If you take your position seriously, what implications that you could anticipate?

Explain how this concept relates to any of the other four or to other expressions of Indian spirituality?

Hinduism

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:For the initial post, respond to only one of the following options:

Option 1
Choose and describe one of the five key concepts from the Upanishads.

Explain how this concept relates to any of the other four or to other expressions of Indian spirituality?
Use a quote from the Upanishads to support your thoughts
Why did you choose this concept and how does it relate to your own understanding or beliefs?
Option 2
Choose and describe one of the four yoga. Include the following:

Describe, with examples, how this is a path to the Divine and leads a person to realization.
Why did you choose this path to discuss?
Determine how your understanding of your chosen yoga might relate to your professional standards of care.

In what ways does the Buddhist notion of dukkha challenge or affirm Western medical practice?

Buddhism

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Chapter 4
Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to only one of the following options:

Option 1
For this option, address the following:

Define Theravada and Mahayana forms of Buddhism.
Describe the Arhat and the Bodhisattva and explain how each achieves the goal of nirvana.
Examine how each ideal relates to one or more of the following key concepts/teachings: Four Noble Truths, Three marks of reality, Noble Eightfold Path.
Explain which of these ideals you believe best expresses healthcare ideals.
Option 2
For this option, address the following:

Explain the Buddhist understanding of dukkha.
Why do many scholars feel that “suffering” may be a misleading translation of the word dukkha? What might be a better translation?
What did the Buddha offer as a way to overcome dukkha and how does it explain his understanding?
In what ways does the Buddhist notion of dukkha challenge or affirm Western medical practice?

Briefly describe your chosen theory as believed by the theorist. Defend your choice by discussing why this theory is the best explanation as to the origin of religions.

The Study of Religion

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Minimum of 1 scholarly source
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to only one of the following options:

Option 1
Choose one (1) of the following psychological views on the origin of religion:

Freud
James
Jung
Then, address the following:

Briefly describe your chosen theory as believed by the theorist.
Defend your choice by discussing why this theory is the best explanation as to the origin of religions.
Option 2
Choose two (2) of the ten reasons to study religion listed in your text and address the following:

Explain each reason.
Describe why each of your chosen reasons is important to your personal worldview.
Apply at least one of your chosen reasons to your profession and its standards of care.

Explain how the etic and emic perspectives describe your own religion or a religion with which you are familiar.

Understanding Religion Essay

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Choose only one (1) of the following two options:

Option 1: Eight Characteristics of Religion
In an essay, address the following:

Identify and briefly describe the eight key characteristics of religion developed in your reading.
Choose 2 for further explanation and include an example for each of your chosen characteristics as demonstrated in a given religion.
Why did you choose these 2 reasons? How do they relate to your own religious worldview or your clinical practice?
Option 2: Etic and Emic Views
In an essay, address the following:

Explain how the etic and emic perspectives describe your own religion or a religion with which you are familiar.
In etic, explain how an objective researcher would describe the religion including specific elements. In emic, explain how a practicing member would see the same reality.
Quote an “authoritative religious leader” from this religion as part of your emic paragraph, in addition to your scholarly source.
How does understanding this add to your understanding of your chosen religion?
What does it add to your approach to patient care?
Click on the following link to view an example for Option 2 :

Evaluate a current artist myth using the Hero’s Journey. Carefully review the Hero’s Journey power point and select a movie or one episode of a TV show and apply the Hero’s journey to that particular movie or episode.

Evaluate a current artist myth using the Hero’s Journey. Carefully review the Hero’s Journey power point and select a movie or one episode of a TV show and apply the Hero’s journey to that particular movie or episode.

You are restricted to English language movies, not translations. You may only use a movie or one episode of a TV show—that is part of the directions, so please follow them. Thanks. Please do not use any three of the films  in the PowerPoint as those have already been done, and one of them is in the example following the analyzation example.

What is an “author”—as described by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault—and what is the controversy surrounding “the death of the author”?

The death of the author 

The themes of authors, author-functions, and audiences have been pivotal for the last part of the class.

What is an “author”—as described by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault—and what is the controversy surrounding “the death of the author”? Along with discussing these, engage the idea of “authorship” in Buddhist communities. For this, you might draw on Sara Mc Clintock’s discussions of the Buddha’s omniscience in Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason, or her discussion of Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla in that same text. You might also discuss Schaeffer’s treatment of Saraha as an author

What new things did you learn from the book and what issues did the book leave unresolved for you?

Simply Christian by N.T. Wright

For your introduction to the paper, first identify the author’s thesis, then provide an analytical statement about the author’s thesis. This analytical statement should reflect what you will argue throughout the rest of this paper.
Analysis: how does the author argue, defend and develop the article? Ultimately, to what conclusions does the author come? This portion of the paper ought to be around 500 words.
What new things did you learn from the book and what issues did the book leave unresolved for you?
Be sure that the entire paper is well-written, edited for mistakes and clarity, and worthy of submission.