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First real post after all those twitter posts... I figured I'd link my twitter to LJ to provide people with some evidence I'm still alive! Is it working? Is it annoying?
Heh, anyway...
Livejournal, you are so good to me! I keep coming back to you when I need to write something else but it's not coming out at all. Here's hoping a little journal therapy will help out this time as well.
This time, it's a 10-page paper about St. Augustine of Hippo. Yeah, I know. He's AMAZING!!! But I just can't seem to distill all the reading I've done for the past month into the right words. Most of the paper is actually supposed to consist of actual theology I'm learning from reading Confessions... and that is the hardest part. I have been learning... little inklings here and there. But it's so hard to keep things in my mind without also connecting them to 20 other things that are similar. For instance, I keep mixing up Augustine and C.S. Lewis (That's what I get for taking History of Christian Spiritual Formation at the same time as the C.S. Lewis class - they're even back-to-back on Thursdays!) in my mind... so I don't quite remember who said what and why it goes along with his particular theology/background. *sigh* Partly it's because Augustine still influences SO MUCH of our thought today, and I see those influences more and more in what Lewis writes, especially in Mere Christianity, which we just finished this week.
I kinda wish I'd picked City of God to read instead, because it would have been less spread-out... but it's much too late for that.
Heh, anyway...
Livejournal, you are so good to me! I keep coming back to you when I need to write something else but it's not coming out at all. Here's hoping a little journal therapy will help out this time as well.
This time, it's a 10-page paper about St. Augustine of Hippo. Yeah, I know. He's AMAZING!!! But I just can't seem to distill all the reading I've done for the past month into the right words. Most of the paper is actually supposed to consist of actual theology I'm learning from reading Confessions... and that is the hardest part. I have been learning... little inklings here and there. But it's so hard to keep things in my mind without also connecting them to 20 other things that are similar. For instance, I keep mixing up Augustine and C.S. Lewis (That's what I get for taking History of Christian Spiritual Formation at the same time as the C.S. Lewis class - they're even back-to-back on Thursdays!) in my mind... so I don't quite remember who said what and why it goes along with his particular theology/background. *sigh* Partly it's because Augustine still influences SO MUCH of our thought today, and I see those influences more and more in what Lewis writes, especially in Mere Christianity, which we just finished this week.
I kinda wish I'd picked City of God to read instead, because it would have been less spread-out... but it's much too late for that.
