2) The exam will cover the material from the Reformation on, i.e. from March 7, second half of class.
3) Make sure you have done all of the reading. While we have not emphasized the textbook the last half of the semester there WILL be questions from it on the exam. Obviously the major focus of the Final will NOT be on the material in the textbook but don't neglect it. Also, remember that there was some required reading from the web and one short chapter in Ware for the second half of the semester.
5) For Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican/Episcopalian, Presbyterians (Calvinists), Methodists and Baptists you should be able to give a good summary of their traditional beliefs, their positions on major doctrines, some points of history and their emphases in Christianity.
6) For the other denominations we covered, can you give unique or identifying characteristics of each? (Example: Seventh Day Adventists worship on the Saturday). I don't expect you to remember everything about them--just the major identifying characteristics.
7) Don't neglect the web resources that we have emphasized. Especially the presentation summaries of Christians groups done by the other students in the class and located on our course web page. If you have already read them then you might want to use them as a resource for review by skimming through each one and remembering major points about that group. If you haven't already read them--you should (unless you think you can ace the questions on these from your memory of what was said in the in-class presentations).
8) Instead of denominations, we saw that a way to group conservative Christianity was in terms of Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, Pentecostals and Charismatics. Can you give major characteristics and example of each? Do you know the differences between these approaches to Christianity? How do they differ from "Mainline" traditional Christianity?
9) Can you identify how modern Roman Catholics, Traditional Protestants, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists tend to approach issues such as abortion, the ordination of women, etc?
10) What are some of the major issues on modern Catholicism? What was the significance of Vatican II? Can you give describe the major difference in approach between "early catholicism" and modern Catholicism?
11) Can you identify the major characteristics of each of the new and/or syncretistic Christian groups we studied? What did the instructor say about how new religious groups typically develop?