This is a 1,250 word assignment (roughly 5 pages). I have decided not to create a rigid rubric for this paper. Instead, I have uploaded a pdf with some thoughts about how to write a Reformation...

This is a 1,250 word assignment (roughly 5 pages).

I have decided not to create a rigid rubric for this paper. Instead, I have uploaded a pdf with some thoughts about how to write a Reformation Theology paper. There are a number of different questions in that essay. You cannot possibly ask and answer all of the questions there - but go ahead and work on a couple that you find really interesting. What I'm trying to do is give you the maximum amount of freedom to work on the questions/concerns that interest you.

The text that I want you to write on is Argula von Grumbach's open letter to the University of Ingolstadt. I have given you the long introduction to the text. You should read the introduction for background, but I want your paper to focus on her letter. Examine that with the same detail that you examined the Sermon at Clermont. This is not a sermon, but it was still meant to be an "agent of change." It was a public letter, meant to influence people.

To help you get to know Argula better, I have also uploaded the chapter on her from Carter Lindberg's The Reformation Theologians. I have also given you a short article on women's voices in the Reformation, to help add some context.

I am hoping you will all take the opportunity to dive deep into this source and have some fun with it.