Last Night's Post
Feb. 13th, 2004 05:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosThe scary thing is that while I didn't get a lot of writing done on my paper last night, I did manage to do some good thinking about it, and working out a structure and outline of points to cover:
* brief background bio of Swedenborg for the prof who doesn't know anything about him
* Swedenborg's utter rejection of the Nicean Creed as one of the worst things to happen to Christianity (he felt it replaced the fundamental revelation of One God with a pagan grouping of three gods)
* Swedenborg's incarnational christology: that is, how he believed Jesus combined the human and divine natures, and its significance.
* How the above, which is the doctrine of the Glorification (ie: over time, Jesus moved from being primarily human to divine human through the conquest of temptation and ever-increasing identification with the divine) provides a model for human regeneration.
Fr. R. says, "If you can't draw a quick line to the pastoral implications, you aren't doing good theology," so expressing what Swedenborg's christology means to those of us who are inspired by his writings is a critical aspect of the paper.
And my mother told me she will babysit The Child during Monday's holiday, which will give me a solid chunk of time to work on the paper in addition to this evening and much of Sunday, so things are looking good for Harn on Saturday.
* brief background bio of Swedenborg for the prof who doesn't know anything about him
* Swedenborg's utter rejection of the Nicean Creed as one of the worst things to happen to Christianity (he felt it replaced the fundamental revelation of One God with a pagan grouping of three gods)
* Swedenborg's incarnational christology: that is, how he believed Jesus combined the human and divine natures, and its significance.
* How the above, which is the doctrine of the Glorification (ie: over time, Jesus moved from being primarily human to divine human through the conquest of temptation and ever-increasing identification with the divine) provides a model for human regeneration.
Fr. R. says, "If you can't draw a quick line to the pastoral implications, you aren't doing good theology," so expressing what Swedenborg's christology means to those of us who are inspired by his writings is a critical aspect of the paper.
And my mother told me she will babysit The Child during Monday's holiday, which will give me a solid chunk of time to work on the paper in addition to this evening and much of Sunday, so things are looking good for Harn on Saturday.
