All the night was been given over to rain here in New Orleans. I thought it was going to miss us, but what normally would have been the bright time of the sun setting over the city was dark and ominous, with lightning causing occasional flickers in the lights during my late Catholicism class. By the end of class, it was worse than ever, rather ( Read more... )

Another few notes:

Today brought some encouraging notes on my article on judging between Rahner and Aquinas on the necessity of the Second Person becoming incarnate. It isn't ready for publication as it stands, but one of today's senior Rahner scholars who was a reader for it has given me lots of feedback and annotations, and thinks I'm onto ( Read more... )

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I just have not been able to keep up with my own life! I knew September would get crazy: the drive to the conclusion of the dissertation is ongoing, and starting to teach two full sections of Introduction To Theology with all its attendant grading was going to add enough to that full schedule. But September gets its extra dose of crazy with job ( Read more... )

At long last, I just finished my article on Karl Rahner and Thomas Aquinas on the necessity of the Second Person of the Trinity becoming incarnate. I had originally thought to get this article out in the spring with the article on the Odes of Solomon. But once I opened the material back up, I realized that there was a considerable amount to think ( Read more... )

In a bit of a brain daze today with regard to the dissertation, so I'm going to finish up a couple of older papers as articles and send them off to journals. "The Odes of Solomon: From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism" is pretty straightforward and needing little editing, comparatively, before sending it off. Mercifully, the journal I'm ( Read more... )

Some of you are philosophers at a far more professional and educated level than I, or just well-established Thomists of one sort or another, and I was wondering if I might get some help from you or anyone who might know something in this direction.

The other night while I was still babysitting my nieces, I was reading through a small book called ( Read more... )

I frequently find myself having to struggle to define "systematic theology" to people with no formal theological background. It's one of those terms for a subdivision within the field of theology, and it happens to be the aspect of theology in which I am primarily doing my doctoral work - my "major," as it were. I've been reading in Avery ( Read more... )

Getting to the end of the grading. People did impressively well on the final, which I probably made too hard. I threw out a few questions or gave credit for more than one answer when I saw that the wording was being taken a different way by people, but I'm still impressed. I find that, especially as I graded the last essays, that I've learned ( Read more... )

I received a kind of cool compliment today, particularly in light of my recent embarrassing moment of being asked to watch my language while I teach (a bit too casually Irish-American for some tastes, I'm afraid!). The Chair, Assistant Chair, and Director of Undergraduate Theology have asked me to lead a discussion for undergraduate Theology ( Read more... )