Elizabeth
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Follow-up: Intellectual Disability and My Own Two Cents
Grateful for the comments and engagement I received on my recent post about intellectual disability and Hans Reinders, I’ve decided to enact a follow-up post for the sake of clarification and further conversation. I will loosely base this post on… Continue reading
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Intellectual Disability and Theological Anthropology
Having finally finished comps, I’ve been meaning to write a little about what turned out to be my favorite exam question, namely, my question on disability studies and Christian theological anthropology (though I didn’t get asked about it…le sigh). My… Continue reading
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Augustine, sexuality, and rape
Augustine’s largely condemnatory attitude toward sexuality is no secret. Though he does not assign the status of primal sin to sexuality that’s run amuck (that status is reserved for pride), he does aver that in light of Adam and Eve’s… Continue reading
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To Augustine: I love you, I love you not
Lately I’ve been doing an exam question on the topic of love of self (amor sui) in the thought of Augustine of Hippo. Over the past few years, I have begun thinking about the legitimacy and importance of love of… Continue reading
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Homelessness in the United States–a few facts
I have something simple yet stark to point out. Today I received the newsletter from SOME (“So Others Might Eat”), a non-profit in DC that aids the poor and homeless. In the beginning of the newsletter, there was a report… Continue reading
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Mary! (2)
More: I would like to clarify that when I echo Johnson in claiming that we need to allow Mary to step down from the deity pedestal we’ve so intricately constructed for her, I’m not saying she’s not preeminently important. In… Continue reading
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Mary?
I am going to sound extremely Roman Catholic right now. So even though, when I think about myself as a theologian-in-training, I probably conceive of myself more as negotiating the Christianity-world axis theologically, I suppose there are some questions that… Continue reading