Purpose of this essay: Christian thinking about the faith and the relationship between faith and life unavoidably reflects the intellectual climate of its time period. If only because thinking takes place in human language, concepts and idioms, even the most careful Christian writers have had to wrestle with uncritically adopting the world’s categories, assumptions and values at the very heart of their devotional lives. This essay will give the student the opportunity to join in this struggle as a concerned spectator, reading a renowned author focusing attention on the author’s success in dealing with the influence of their own intellectual climate.
Ok, I realize that's quite broad, so... Basically, it's an assignment to, in 10 pages or so, take a work of philosophy (Christian or secular), summarize the basic themes of the work, and then critique the success of the author in using their culture's themes, systems, paradigms, etc., to say something significant, without being used by their culture's themes, systems, paradigms, etc. Basically, a commentary on whether or not the author said anything truly original.
And, alas, I chose Soren Kierkegaard's work, The Sickness Unto Death.
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