C.S. Lewis' scifi trilogy notwithstanding, philologist sounds boring. You can combine a lot of the rest by, for example, being a theology professor who gets published. So really, you probably only need to choose between theology and history, and even those are intertwined.
I believe that I am trying to be all five at the same time. They are intertwined, but one can dominate the others, and you can be pulled in multiple directions at once.
I submitted a paper to the Journal of Early Christian Studies and it is on the historicity of resuscitations in the Life of St. Martin. Even though my major is Historical Theology, there is really no theology to speak of in the paper. I think that illustrates well what it's like for me.
The great theologians were creative minds, but all a theology student learns to do is to systematize and analyze those great minds, without necessarily doing any real theology him or herself. It's strange and maybe regrettable, but of course you can't teach genius or creativity or the breathing and blowing of the Spirit.
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I submitted a paper to the Journal of Early Christian Studies and it is on the historicity of resuscitations in the Life of St. Martin. Even though my major is Historical Theology, there is really no theology to speak of in the paper. I think that illustrates well what it's like for me.
The great theologians were creative minds, but all a theology student learns to do is to systematize and analyze those great minds, without necessarily doing any real theology him or herself. It's strange and maybe regrettable, but of course you can't teach genius or creativity or the breathing and blowing of the Spirit.
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