Sunday, June 27, 2004
Days 5 and 6 - Of Professors, Rain, Spaniels, and Snails?
To be honest, life in Manchester can be quiet boring. I mean how often can you sit and wait for a bus for half and hour (yes, somehow I managed to offend the bus drivers again)? So here are the ?highlights? of my past few days?
Professors ? I am here for reasons other than football matches. Met with my professor, Dr. Noble. Its weird, I could never imagine calling any of the professors here by their first names. It is so ?un-British.? Had a great time with Dr. Noble, by which he thinks I am right on target, is fascinated by my topic, and wont let me get rid of Anselm from my thesis (for those of you who know the medieval theologian Anselm, feel free to cry for me). Had a great rabbit trail in the middle of our talk (one of many). Dr. Noble?s brain works like mine ? scrambled and in constant motion. So, for ten minutes we discussed this little theory of mine that the famous Rahner Axiom only makes sense in potentiality, not actuality because of the fact that in humanity?s fallen state our finiteness limits our ability to experience the perichoretic revelatory nature of the being indwelt by any one of the Trinitarian members of the other two, and that therefore for the Axiom to be true one must be in a state of theosis.
Looking at that paragraph I am not even sure what I am saying now. But it sounded brilliant yesterday. It seems that Phd is the Syriac acronym for ?confused, unintelligible babbling.? Needless to say, I am in my element here. Where else can someone like me find someone to actually listen to my inspired verbal doodling.
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