Grace in Two Columns

I've just finished my second 5-page paper for my Christian Anthropology class, and this one proved just as challenging as the first one. The assignment: to discuss "grace." A deceptively simple task, especially when the professor wants us to combine our personal ideas about the subject with our assessment of the writings of the theologians we've been studying. One or the other is easy. Combining the two is significantly harder. For me, at least.

At the root of the problem is my long-held bias against allowing my "personal feelings" to enter my academic work. For some reason, it doesn't help that when I've violated this "rule" in the past, it's always been well-received.

My solution to the problem of integrating my own subjective experiences and beliefs with my academic assessment of Karl Rahner and Paul Tillich was to write an opening paragraph and then to insert a text box with my formal theological discussion on the left side and my personal reflections on the right, in italics. I don't know whether it's going to come across as a clever technique or a lazy cop-out for not writing a integrated paper.

Fr. R. liked my first paper better than I did, so there's hope that this one will appeal to him as well. . . At the moment, I'm too tired to worry about it, or work on it, any further.

No Surprise. . . .

Your soul is bound to the Solitary Rose: The
Alone.

"When I wake up alone, the shades are still
drawn on the cold window pane so they cast
their lines on my bed and lines on my
face."

The Solitary Rose is associated with loneliness,
melancholy, and patience. It is governed by
the goddess Merope and its sign is The Sword,
or Unrequited Love.

As a Solitary Rose, you may be summed up as a
hopeless romantic. You desire love and have so
much love to give, but thing just never seem to
work out the way you want them to. In life,
you can be very optomistic, even when things
are gray and nothing works out to your
expectations.


What Rose Is Your Soul Bound To?
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