tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609412.post6750063402313557307..comments2023-07-14T03:43:32.892+12:00Comments on "Keeping Up With Myself...": Which Jesus?BJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01836871676533938956noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609412.post-1342209166178618282008-08-28T13:00:00.000+12:002008-08-28T13:00:00.000+12:00Actually, I should say my marker for this paper sa...Actually, I should say my marker for this paper says I show "promising theological ability"...<BR/><BR/>Shows how much he knows!BJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836871676533938956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609412.post-57015937075001781072008-08-28T07:59:00.000+12:002008-08-28T07:59:00.000+12:00Appreciatively.Appreciatively.BJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836871676533938956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609412.post-84034721517186329122008-08-28T03:14:00.000+12:002008-08-28T03:14:00.000+12:00Totally.Totally.stephyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047873385595074389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609412.post-58784686982285673002008-08-16T07:15:00.000+12:002008-08-16T07:15:00.000+12:00For me, so far, the answer is "no", but I know exa...For me, so far, the answer is "no", but I know exactly how you feel as I had a similar experience at Law School. I do think its common experience to have some kind of reaction to deeper study particularly in the theological area. But HOW it happens, I suspect has a lot to do with prior experience and temperament. For me, my conversion was so dramatic, I've never been one to doubt, in the wake of that. Also I am a synthesist by nature which means I wander throuh life collecting information and adding it to my evolving paradigm, so I guess new information doesn't impac me in a revolutionary way - it excites me but more because of how it expands the emerging framework of ideas and values that is my brain!<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, different people with different experiences can experience major dissonance. I've known people to throw faith away rather than wrestle with it(I'm not talking about people who make considered changes in worldview). I've seen people engage intensely in fresh ideas and give the appearance of wild swinging. I've seen others become entrenched with an existing worldview to the point of fanaticism rather than engage the new one. Sometimes these things settle as new realities. Other times they are steps. All this to say: I think its normal, it happens different ways for different people, temperament is a factor and so is prior experience.<BR/><BR/>On the prior experience one, I will own the fact that I have had a negative experience of a radically liberal church - that drives me towards orthodoxy that is smart enough to resist rampant liberalism. That environment was also intensely inward looking and irrelevant - that drives me towards creating an inclusive and relevant space for people to hear the Gospel. So, I tend towards learning things that engage that journey. I try to be more open than that of course!BJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836871676533938956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609412.post-11411082665770746342008-08-15T10:43:00.000+12:002008-08-15T10:43:00.000+12:00Slightly off topic, but hey:Do you ever find that ...Slightly off topic, but hey:<BR/>Do you ever find that the more you study, the more you question? As in question the very validity of your faith? I'm really struggling with that. Not because I do question the validity of my faith, but because this annoying voice in the back of my mind keeps trying to undermine anything I'm learning. As a rational / analytical person, how do I entertain that to the point of disproving it, without entertaining it so as to make it continue? If that makes any sense?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com