And I make an apology for those of you who bother to wade through my drivel. I have come to the conclusion that I'm totally dropping the ball in trying to make this a journal--which I would find useful for my own ends--of theological notes. I'm not writing enough! I can't find the time. Or I'm not making the time. All the work I'm doing on Nature and Grace in the Nouvelle Theologie with Fr. Coffey is so subtle and complex--I really think that nature/grace stuff is the hardest thing there is in theology--that I have never even tried to do summaries here. Which probably means that those are the ones I would benefit most from. I get classnotes from other students from the Augustine seminar and only have to write them myself once every ten sessions, but I haven't gotten to posting them because the diagrams are tough to convert and it was more important for me to surf eBay for that time, anyway. I've not even mentioned the work I've been doing all semester with Fr. Bryan Massingale, whose Teaching Assistant I am, on "Christian Faith and Racial Justice." Here I've been reading and listening to the lectures of America's only black social ethicist, and one who specializes in race issues, and I don't think I've mentioned it. Yet I've spent oodles of time dealing with the weight of "white privilege," which concept only entered my mind in a formal way this semester with the amazing readings I've had. Today I started James Poling's Deliver Us From Evil and have seen things about the history of racial and gender oppression in the history of the United States that I'd never put together in my undergraduate history major, when I last formally studied American history. There's so much to share and to talk about and I don't have the time to wash my clothes, much less put it all together. It's good that I'm living my life, but I'd like to jot some notes down, too!
Personal/Theological Notebook--Markus and Stuff
And I make an apology for those of you who bother to wade through my drivel. I have come to the conclusion that I'm totally dropping the ball in trying to make this a journal--which I would find useful for my own ends--of theological notes. I'm not writing enough! I can't find the time. Or I'm not making the time. All the work I'm doing on Nature and Grace in the Nouvelle Theologie with Fr. Coffey is so subtle and complex--I really think that nature/grace stuff is the hardest thing there is in theology--that I have never even tried to do summaries here. Which probably means that those are the ones I would benefit most from. I get classnotes from other students from the Augustine seminar and only have to write them myself once every ten sessions, but I haven't gotten to posting them because the diagrams are tough to convert and it was more important for me to surf eBay for that time, anyway. I've not even mentioned the work I've been doing all semester with Fr. Bryan Massingale, whose Teaching Assistant I am, on "Christian Faith and Racial Justice." Here I've been reading and listening to the lectures of America's only black social ethicist, and one who specializes in race issues, and I don't think I've mentioned it. Yet I've spent oodles of time dealing with the weight of "white privilege," which concept only entered my mind in a formal way this semester with the amazing readings I've had. Today I started James Poling's Deliver Us From Evil and have seen things about the history of racial and gender oppression in the history of the United States that I'd never put together in my undergraduate history major, when I last formally studied American history. There's so much to share and to talk about and I don't have the time to wash my clothes, much less put it all together. It's good that I'm living my life, but I'd like to jot some notes down, too!
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