Semester Transition
My first semester at Notre Dame is over, and I’m heading home. Well, not quite over—I’m taking a few extra days to finish up a paper about Aquinas on property and poverty (“Justifying Property, Justifying Poverty: Aquinas and His Interlocutors”). But I’ve turned in my others: “Lindbeck, Relativism, Democracy” for Fundamentals of Systematics, “Derrida’s Christianity” for Political Theology, and “Unity and Distance: Meister Eckhart” for Intro. to Medieval Theology. All fantastic courses and fun papers, and I’m ready to move on.
Now that the main source of stress has ended, so (hopefully) has my recent silence. You’ll recognize the source of all my recent posts in the papers I just mentioned.
Next semester’s classes are more than promising, if somewhat overwhelming:
- Mystery of God, with Cyril O’Regan
- Patristic Exegesis, with John Cavadini
- Readings in Reformation Theology, with Randall Zachman
- Jean-Luc Marion and Phenomenology, with Kevin Hart
Alongside the course on Marion, Hart has agreed to meet once extra per week to read through Husserl’s Ideas I and, if there’s time to get into it, some Heidegger. Two authors I could never get through without help! Not to mention, Marion himself will be joining us from Chicago for at least one seminar.
Is it wrong to be so excited about next semester before the dust has settled from this one?
15 December 2006 |
tags: Personal
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Wow, Brian! 1. yes, it is wrong to be so excitd about next semester already. jk ;). 2. You are reading amazing books and taking really cool classes. I’m still stuck in a lot of these basic-ish courses here (except for my Hebrew classes and next semester I will be taking a course on the Rwanda Genocide and the Challenge to the Church). I would love to study Meister Eckhart and Derrida, though. Keep writing your entries and have a great Christmas break.