I just made a short post over at Church and Postmodern Culture about the future of theology (direct link). In some ways, this is where I find my future research leading.
I want to graduate and move on to a doctoral program, but I feel like I’ve just gotten a feel for my advisor’s work (which is right in my area…see the previous post over at Church and Postmodern Culture!). I would love to collaborate with him in the future.
I enjoy reading way too much. Nearly every book that I read leads me to three others that all look interesting. I’m on a first-name basis with the circulation desk at the school library.
When I first started my MA program, I felt like I knew very little of everything. Some of the links and connections in classes were so foreign (e.g. Deleuze!) that I had no idea how to understand them. It wasn’t until a class I took last year that these connections were understood in rudimentary ways. Now, I feel like every book I read is a new daybreak, a new revelation, a new idea. Some of the more recent books I’ve read have found ways of connecting my interest(s) in technology and programming with philosophy and theology.
I have five weeks left to write my papers. For my class on globalization, I want to explore the notion of identities as multiplicities. For my class on Augustine and Origen, I want to tease out Augustine’s and Origen’s feelings on language and compare them to modern semiotics: their “rule of faith” as a crutch for language.
