Now Reading: The Politics of Jesus John Howard Yoder
One thing I've noticed on other blogs, is that most posts generally fit into either a "This is What I'm Doing" or This is What I'm Thinking" category. I like to think that mine fit into the latter. One thing that the "Doing" group does from time to time, is keep their readers up to date on what they are listening to or reading. Although I don't wish to regale my readers with every mundane detail of my life, they do help to explain what I'm thinking or why I'm thinking it. I am encouraged to read deeper theology by my friends who do the same, and by those who think it's a natural fit for me. The reason that I generally don't, is that I'm afraid that it's not a natural fit for me. Stumbling through the first chapter, I struggle between not remembering what I just read, and not understanding what's in front of me. It is comforting of course to find that my colleagues also engaged in deeper theology prefer to read it with a dictionary and/or a Bible to accompany it. The excuse that I normally give, because I don't like saying that I'm not smart enough, is that by making faith too intellectual, one loses touch with the populace. I feel strongly that one's faith should be both simple enough for a child to understand, and yet complex enough that it withstands the intellectual processes of our own minds and the questions of others. I sometimes wonder if, since I've started University, I've focused too much on retaining the former and not trusted my capacity to do both naturally. These are points to ponder, I wonder what other people think. Upon completing this post, I realized it was scattered, for that reason, went back and italicized key points.

   [ posted by William @ 6:24 PM ]