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Get Thee to a Study Hall
I have just set a personal record for the most posts in a day since they turned off my LJ access at work. I am now going to shut down the computer and go read Evolutionary Faith: Rediscovering God in Our Great Story, by Diarmuid O'Murchu, which is one of my required texts for this weekend.
[BTW: does anyone know the correct pronunciation of Diarmuid? It looks beautiful, but I have no idea how to say it.]
O'Murchu and I are in basic agreement on some important concepts, but he gets there on an entirely different path than I do, and is spilling a great deal of ink to convey concepts that I have no trouble accepting but he seems to feel must be argued strenuously. I keep wanting to tell him "just relax!"
He also keeps bringing our spiritually-advanced ancient/primitive ancestors into the picture as the spiritual ideal, with a kind of reverent naivete I previously had associated solely with Neo-Pagan romantics.
There is actually quite a bit of Pagan-ish material in this book, especially in his discussion of the nature of energy, which could be straight out of a discourse on magic.
It's fascinating and annoying at once. I'm going to write my three-pager on it, because it's far more interesting than the bland The Active Life, by Parker Palmer. I can work up some enthusiasm for bringing my Pagan sensibilities into the paper -- always a fun undertaking at seminary.
So far no one has so much as lighted a match in my presence, so I feel pretty safe.
[BTW: does anyone know the correct pronunciation of Diarmuid? It looks beautiful, but I have no idea how to say it.]
O'Murchu and I are in basic agreement on some important concepts, but he gets there on an entirely different path than I do, and is spilling a great deal of ink to convey concepts that I have no trouble accepting but he seems to feel must be argued strenuously. I keep wanting to tell him "just relax!"
He also keeps bringing our spiritually-advanced ancient/primitive ancestors into the picture as the spiritual ideal, with a kind of reverent naivete I previously had associated solely with Neo-Pagan romantics.
There is actually quite a bit of Pagan-ish material in this book, especially in his discussion of the nature of energy, which could be straight out of a discourse on magic.
It's fascinating and annoying at once. I'm going to write my three-pager on it, because it's far more interesting than the bland The Active Life, by Parker Palmer. I can work up some enthusiasm for bringing my Pagan sensibilities into the paper -- always a fun undertaking at seminary.
So far no one has so much as lighted a match in my presence, so I feel pretty safe.
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*guffaw*
"only pumpkin pies are burning"?
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