(at last)
Hmmm, what has happened that was interesting?
I’ve got a job, it is one day a week, crap money and completely boring…but it’s a job.
oooh, I know something interesting (well…relitively interesting)
I went to Durham for an RS trip yesterday, spent the lunch hour showing Anna (a girl in my RS class) around the Cathedral, said hello to St. Cuthbert, and forgot to go to the Lady Chapel, which has to be the most calming place in the cathedral.
It rained, it hailed, it was gloriously sunny…all in the space of one hour!
The lectures I went to were even fairly interesting, I went to 5 over the course of the day…
1. was on the Ontological argument, and was fairly dry and academic, I didn’t learn anything new…
2. was a David Wilkinson one, about the beginning of the Universe, which was really really interesting, multimedia which seems to suit my learning style and using a power point presentation.
3. was “only a suffering God can help” and involved two of the favourite theologians, Bonhoffer, who I find easy to read and challenging, and Moultmann, who I find almost impossible to read but really really challenging. I learnt new facts (like Moultmann was a German soldier in WW2) and gained a new understanding of the Patripassic Heresy, which is saying that God died on the cross, only it was all of God, cos God was father until he became incarnet, then he was son until he ascended and then he was spirit. Which is modalism. I now understand why it is bad – before then I thought it was just saying that the part of God which was Jesus died on the cross, but now I know better. I’m not a heretic!
4. was another David wilkinson lecture, this one about the end of the universe – which was very good. And I talked to him afterwards cos my ex-minister had told me about him and lent me a book by him…
Oh…..The person doing the “only a suffering God can help” lecture is a shipmate – which was fairly scary…I sat there thinking “i’ve met him before, i know his name…is he a shipmate….” so I asked him and he was!