1985

There's a song playing on the radio these days about a materialistic woman who must be about 39. She sounds to me like she was the average clueless high schooler who (for her time) thought that if you didn't know or like Wham or Whitesnakes, who were you? Now she's married to a CPA and her kids think she's "uncool."

Well, I didn't know who Whitesnakes were in 1985 and really didn't care. I was more interested in calculus and chemistry. But I also was a typically unfocused male in his late teens who could hardly finish a book.

I've had years of education. But my funnel was so small that I went through it all and caught only the smallest percent of what I've tried to study. After both my MA in classics and my PhD in New Testament, I felt like, "You know, I could really benefit from this program if I were to start it now." 10 years after writing a dissertation on Hebrews, I thought to myself the other day, "You know, I really am somewhat of a scholar on Hebrews."

A late bloomer... all my life I've been. But I think my body is young too, so maybe I'll live a little extra to catch up with some of the quick starts I've been around in my day.

Some might think I've accomplished a lot. I've had articles published in some impressive journals. I've had four books published. I've had Wesleyan significant people introduce me as one of the smartest Wesleyans in the denomination. I teach at a college a lot of Christians would like to get a job at.

But I know who I am, and I've been around the best. And I feel like I've done little with my life or potential.

We all know that no "I" really matters. It just doesn't feel that way.

Aeneid 1.1-7

Arma virumque cano,
"Arms and a man I sing,"

Troiae qui primus ab oris ...
"who first from the region of Troy"

Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit ... litora,
"to Italy by fate a fugitive even he came to Lavinian ... shores,"

... multum ille et terris iactatus et alto ... vi superum
"that man tossed greatly both on lands and on high ... by the force of the gods"

... saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram,
"because of the mindful wrath of savage Juno,"

multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
"many things also even in war having suffered, until he might found the city"

inferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latinum
"and might convey the gods to Latium; whence [came] the Roman race"

Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.
"and the Alban fathers and the walls of high Rome."

Das Jahre der Zeit, 2006

Ich glaube, dass ich dieses Jahre, "das Jahre der Zeit" nommen werde. Dabei bedeute ich, dass ich die Physik des Zeit, Veraendern, Kalkulus, usw. studieren hoffe.

Semper Cogitans

De altero libro cogito: Strategizing for Faith.

tabulam rerum ici pono.

I: Initium, ratio quaerens fidem, Potestne fidem cum ratione habere? data cognita fides venit? Non provare sed justicare.

II: Christus, Quid de Christo cum ratione stat? Anastasis? Incarnatus? Deus?

III: Deus, Quid de Deo cum ratione stat? Ens? Natura? Faciens? Personae?

IV: Fabulae et Scriptura

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Conditum

Pro me haec blox hodie condito.

Scio alteros et alteras eam legere possuros esse... sed non multos (aut multas) :)

Non semper scribam in lingua Latinae. Nunc scribam in lingua Germanicae aut fortasse Galliae, Graecae, et ceterarum.

Ich werde sicher Fehler machen. Aber fuer mich gehort es. Wenn Sie koennen mich verstehen, herzlich Willkommen. Wenn Sie koennen nicht, ce n'est fini en.