The end of the semester is (somewhat) in sight. I handed one of my bigger papers in last Friday, and over the weekend I've been finishing the reading and note-taking for the study I've been making of Maximus the Confessor, a sixth century Byzantine theologian. I'm going to hand that work in today, and then tomorrow I will write my constructive summary essay on the relationship between theology, ethics, and spirituality. That's when the fun starts - as an STM student I have to nominate one of my papers from either semester to be an extended paper; 40 pages, or about 12,000 words. I've been doing a study on major approaches to religous language, and whether and how we can say anything of God, and over the Christmas break I'll be writing 2 pages a day for 20 days, and hopefully that will get me to 40 pages well enough!
In the meantime I'm starting to read something for personal interest. I've been thinking alot about Christology, and the way we elaborate the divine nature of Jesus. One of the issues here is that many of the titles Jesus used of himself were common stock in his time and didn't ever denote anything like the divine nature that we now attribute to Jesus - so how do we get from the biblical text, to something like a Trinitarian view? A landmark work on Christology is Wolfhart Pannenberg's book "Jesus - God and Man", a 400-page tour de force. I'll be reading through this over Christmas break, maybe 20 pages a day in the evening, and I'll put up regular blog posts (promise!) and quotations from the book to chew over.
3 comments:
Hey Rob! Sounds really good, loved the post on your snow-experience, got me all jealous again. But then 12.000 words brought me back on earth ;-). So you're walking in some great men's footsteps: re-thinking the trinity. It'll be good if you sort that one out once and for all... hehe!
Keep rocking, have a great xmas and stuff!
i am ready for pannenberg.
regular blogs he? happy new year buddy! :-)
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