There were two things I'd picked up at Easter from friends that I wanted to copy into my journal for memory's keeping. The first, a poem I saw on Professor Michel René Barnes's Facebook page. This appealed to a number of people, apparently, as I saw more people pick it up and reprint it:Make no mistake: if He rose at all ( Read more... )

I found myself breaking from my lesson plan on Wednesday while discussing Augustine's Confessions with the students (Book VIII - the build-up to the conversion scene). We had been discussing the role that other people have in conversion stories or in our spirituality/spiritual formation in general. Augustine's enthusiasm for the example of Marius ( Read more... )

I've noticed as well in teaching that resurrection is an idea that even the historicity of which (as an idea) is something a number of students have trouble wrapping their heads around. They keep wanting to morph it into the Greek "immortality of the soul" and frequently think that that is what Christianity teaches. Despite repeated ( Read more... )

Spent the day reading over at the Brew Bayou, since the semester's playing out in such a way that I really need to use my break to keep up with the seminars and the projects. Took time off last night to have dinner and lots of talk with Kari-Shane and to go see the premiere of Starsky and Hutch, which was cheerfully goofy. Always good to see a ( Read more... )

Okay, here's an abstract one:

Coffey was very annoyed with my essay this term for betraying what he thought was an unexamined presupposition underlying my work--that I "attach to the word 'historical' (and to terms like 'evidence') a positivistic content that renders it unusable for theology." And I thought that I'd been arguing against ( Read more... )

Still working on this Marxsen resurrection business. Finding out that it, along with Bultmann's work, all seem to have their roots (like some of Rahner) in Heidegger's existentialism. Marxsen stresses that it is the personal appropriation of the resurrection for the individual that is important--that that is the miracle. Now I don't in the least ( Read more... )