Get Thee to a Study Hall
Sep. 21st, 2004 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI 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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Date: 2004-09-22 03:49 pm (UTC)I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
I'm fairly certain that the students where I go to school have very different protocols for investigating hypotheses than the students where you went to school.
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Date: 2004-09-22 09:46 pm (UTC)And you're at a Jesuit-run school: if there isn't at least one experimentalist (or, at the very least, Unitarian!) I'll be very much surprised!
Which reminds me - you do know the one about the Jesuit priest, the rabbi, and the Methodist minister, yes?