The big news around here is that our little blog-ommunity has been labeled Neo-Calvinist. I'm not sure what that means since I haven't had time to investigate Mr. Strauss' blog yet. Kent made a typically witty comment about the label, but the whole situation brings up some interesting questions for me.
The first is inevitable: how is a neo-Calvinist different from your regular, stock Calvinist? Is it simply the fact that I'm under the age of 25? Second, am I really a Calvinist? I grew up in a very Calvinist home (for which I'm grateful - thanks Mom and Dad), but as a 21 year old student I'm supposed to be searching a bit, right? Right now I'm particularly struggling with issues of determinism, predestination, foreknowledge, and free will (thank you Prof. Crump), and the Calvinist view is not necessarily cutting the mustard at the moment. I know my anfechtung is pretty insignificant in the big picture, but I felt like it would be a good idea to set the record straight. Third, does this mean people are actually reading this? The internet is such a tricky place because of the pseudo-anonymity. I was pretty confident the readers of this blog were limited to Kent, Bethany, Dean, my sister (maybe), and my mom (probably). Not that I mind - what I put up here is for public consumption. But the aforementioned are the audience I have in mind when I write. Now I'll have these muddled ideas about who I'm writing to (and delusions of grandeur, for that matter). Oh well, this is the way things go. I had been planning to make this blog a bit more public next fall anyway, so that when I'm in Hungary people can keep up with what's going on. (Have I mentioned I'm moving to Hungary next fall?) So, Mr. Strauss, I hope you enjoy your look into what is really more like a cabal than a coterie.
On a side note, the first Dodgers update of the year is that they're 1-1 after 2 Spring Training games. Of course, like the Dodgers, they won their first game on the pitching of a whole bunch of people nobody's ever heard of, and today Jeff Weaver, the guy who two years ago was going to be their next big ace, got shelled for the loss. His salary is probably 5 times what they pay the 4 guys who pitched well for them yesterday. Those dumb Dodgers...
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"Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot" - Thomas More
3 comments:
Well bro, you can count me as a regular reader instead of a 'maybe.' In thinking about your intended audience when you write these blogs, it might help to consider that I did not attend Calvin, have not studied theology, and apparently have a much smaller vocabulary relating to such subjects than you, Kent (I've started reading his occasionally, too), or others. Translation now and then might be helpful. It's something akin to how you would understand me if I started talking about glutathione and catalase defense mechanisms for bacterial protection against respiration-generated reactive oxygen species. Some familiar words, some unfamiliar, a vague sense of meaning, but not exactly sure of what you're saying in your nuanced manner. So the occasional explanation of a term or two would be nice, but don't let me cramp your style!
Hiya sis! I'm pleased that you keep up with me this way. Sorry about the jargon; I'll try to keep it to a minimum. As for your humbling biological diatribe, I actually got a fair bit of it since our bio labs for the past two weeks have involved potato catalase changing the rate of hydrogen peroxide reactions. But your point is still well-taken. Thanks - miss you!
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