Many of you may have seen this before - I discovered it for myself just this morning. This is "Christ II" - a photomosaic done by a company called Runaway Technology for the anniversary of Christ's 2000th birthday - they say. It's made up of little pictures of the Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts - a really fascinating way to think about it I believe. I stumbled across it in the Ilford library this morning.
I have decided that, as much as I hate to admit it..... I really miss University. I miss study. I miss the class discussion. I miss the interesting new insight. I miss challenging myself and working to further establish my personal belief system through intellectual means. Let me make this clear though - - I do not miss the exams. I do not miss early morning classes. I do not miss UT itself - at all. Well, just the football. I'm actually really frustrated that I'm missing this amazing season.
So, in efforts to have a some study on my own - I headed to the largest library in the area from which I have access to borrow books and made a bee-line to the religion section. As I suspected, there was a lot more on Catholic and Anglican church history than anything I was particularly interested in, and I didn't know who half of these authors were. Apart from my former textbooks, recommended reading from profs, secularly popular authors and those that my dad has introduced me to - I know nothing. I know, that's what theology school will be for. But, I just had to jump start some myself.
Limiting myself to 3 books - for fear of being overwhelmed and frustrated with more and being limited in selection itself - I checked out Systematic Theology (Paul Tillich), a collection of Mother Theresa's writings, and The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology. On the cover of the latter is the above picture. I hope to not bore you with too many discussions on what I'm reading - I know that most of you who are interested in reading my blog are much more interested in seeing pictures and reading of life in London than you are about theological studies. So, I will try to keep in fun and balanced. But I am very excited about my books and my new-found appreciation for school. Wow, didn't think I would say that.
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