According to my professor, “99% of the questions you receive from parishioners and others while in ministry are essay or short answer.”

OK, I’ll grant you that. But I do not (somehow) think they will want to know the answers to questions like this:

“Trace out the New English theology and the way in which it challenged the reigning consensus of Aquinas and Bonaventure.”
OR
“Discuss the context for and theology behind the Augsburg Confession.”
OR
(my personal favorite for irrelevance)
“Discuss in detail the Council of Trent.”

I suppose if I worked hard enough I could find someone for whom these are day-to-day, “how do I deal with situation X” answers… At the moment, I am doubtful. And yes, I am rebelling.

Add to my frustration that he does not cover these topics in his lectures in any semblance of an organized fashion, and I have to root out the answers from thousands of pages of reading… I feel as though I am preparing for PhD orals or something.

OK, whiny rant over. Back to Cromwell.

Deb