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tallybug

My grad-school playground

Feb 28, 2008 13:08

All i want to do is play with NT texts. I want to dig my hands into their sandbox and stir, sort, sift, build, tear down, laugh. They are so puzzling, complicated, weighty, important. I love thumbing through my Synopsis Quattour Evangeliorum and paying more attention to the Latin notes than to the English. It makes me feel very alive - very alive ( Read more... )

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ferngirl February 29 2008, 08:00:41 UTC

hey dude - i don't love the grammar and structure the way you do and i need a bit more explicit direction on how to write the essays so i can try to improve my grade a bit...

but i do love the concepts and the interesting stuff - i even talked to Marcus Borg about aphesin tonight! ; ) we had a great discussion... after we had the discussion of aphesin in greek reading and todays gospel class i had an epiphany about my atonement theory... and borg totally agreed with my idea and added to it with a discussion of mark 10. ; ) i'll have to tell you about it...

tallybug February 29 2008, 19:21:21 UTC

EPIPHANY ON ATONEMENT THEORY? rachel that's major. spill the beans. tell me about it.

I am so excited for you theologymama February 29 2008, 17:17:22 UTC

i think it is so incredibly and fabulously awesome that you are loving it. and screw the MA... why not a PhD?????? jump and rejoice (particularly on LEAP day)... you have found a passion.

i am finding it interesting too even though i don't have your gifts so it is frustrating to have limited time and feel like i've barely scratched the surface after 5-6 hours on an assignment! that was what i was trying to tell you yesterday after class. i'm not frustrated with having to do it but not having enough space in my life to do it like i want and impatient with how long it is taking my non-detailed mind to get oriented and catch up with the details of nt scholarship.

i've had similar feelings... my classmates aren't always going to get my enthusiasm about certain things. frustrating. it pushes me forward to think maybe my vocation might be different than theirs...

Re: I am so excited for you theologymama February 29 2008, 17:17:57 UTC

theology mama would be... me... Jenny Warner :)

Re: I am so excited for you tallybug February 29 2008, 19:24:16 UTC

before i saw that second post i already figured it out. dude. i was going to post in your journal I KNOW WHO YOU ARE but you already told me, and you don't have any entries anyway. shucks.
why not a PhD? because i don't want to sell my whole life away yet.

Re: I am so excited for you theologymama February 29 2008, 20:47:54 UTC

And you know what I love about that user ID? 'Cause I used to sit at home, reading theology when my kids were little feeling so weird and frustrated with everyone else because they didn't GET how important it was. So at some point, I decided to stop being frustrated and fulfill my inner theologian. Unfortunately now I get frustrated in the opposite direction... I can't make enough time to do what I want to do AND be the kind of mom I want. Sigh. We never have it all.
Have a fun party tonight!