first year done.

today i finished my first year of Ph.d. course work. one down, one to go. it has been a good year but i must admit that i am extremely ready for the summer. i wrote another eighty or so pages in the last two weeks. in my fourth year of graduate studies that totals some where around eight hundred pages written. Thats absurd. This semester i wrote three papers. one a critique on H. Richard Niebuhrs, Responsible Self. the second was a critique of Durkheim's concept of sacred and profane, and the third was my favorite of the semester. It is an analysis and critique of the current metaphors of atonement and their usefulness in the age of globalization. I was able to retrieve what i believe to be the most profound metaphor of atonement from the christian tradition and that is the incarnation/perichoresis, or the divine dance. I'll probably post parts of it here in the weeks to come. as for the summer i going to work and read things that are fictional and re-awaken my imagination. ill be talking to you soon.