PROMPT: You are required to write approximately ten pages on a particular topic directly related to Augustine’s Confessions. There is a generous amount of scholarship on Augustine and the Confessions. You have the freedom to choose any theme directly related to the Confessions. You may choose to develop a theme in collaboration with secondary source material. Common themes explored in the Confessions include: evil; Monica; friendship; sin; freedom; love; Ambrose; sexuality; lust; teaching; Manichaeism; death; grief; faith; conversion; and so on…
BOOK Required: Saint Augutine’s Confessions
FORMAT: Approximately ten pages. Double-spaced |12 point font (any standard font) | One inch margins on all sides.
CITATION AS FOOTNOTES: Since this is a research paper, you have to demonstrate your efforts in research through placing yourself in conversation with a number of scholarly sources. In general, you would do well to have 3-4 footnotes per page of writing. You are expected to cite your sources by following the Chicago Manual of Style. In addition to the footnotes, you need to provide a bibliography at the end of the research paper. Please reference the following website for an introduction to the Chicago Manual of Style See: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
At the very first citation of the Confessions, provide the full bibliographic data as follows:
Augustine, Confessions Book#[Roman Numeral].Chapter#.Paragraph#, tr. Translator Name (Place: Publisher, Date), pg#.
Example of first citation:
Augustine, Confessions I.2.5, tr. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 22.
After the first citation, every other citation of the Confessions should be in abbreviated form as follows:
Augustine, Conf. Book#.Chapter#.Paragraph#, pg#.
THEOLOGY: Faith, Culture and Spirituality Research Paper | Augustine
Example of every citation after the first citation:
Augustine, Conf. III.4.3, 43.
SECONDARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS: You must constructively employ at minimum three to five secondary sources in collaboration with their analysis Augustine’s Confessions. The additional secondary sources should enrich and deepen your analysis of the Confessions. You should place your reading the Confessions in conversation with the secondary source. The secondary sources should meet academic standards, meaning refereed articles from academic journals, book chapters from edited volumes, academic encyclopedias/dictionaries or monographs authored by specialists within the field.
ILLIAD is another way to request a primary or secondary source from virtually any library in the United States.
