... Literally and figuratively. My paper was on Schleiermacher and Emerson and their differing approaches to the theology of communication. I've never written a paper that related to my life as much as this one did! God spoke to me so much through it, about how He has put certain people in my life and given me the gift of friendships so that I always have someone to talk with about my struggles and discoveries. And, also so that I can return the favor by listening to theirs and learning from them. He also showed me, as I was writing about absolute dependence, that my dependence wasn't completely lying with God like I thought it was. There are definitely certain things in my life that I have failed to surrender to Him. Although this paper drained me (ok, technically that's the fault of tons of coffee and no sleep as a result of paper writing) I actually enjoyed my discoveries. I plenty of AHA! moments that inspired squeals and happy dances!
Here's a few Augustine quotes that I included in my paper and wanted to share with you guys:
1. "By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
2. "Pray as though everything depended on God, work as though everything depended on you."
3. " Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
Side-note to everyone: Can I just say that I feel beyond blessed to go to a college where I can openly writes about my faith and grow spiritually from a research paper!!
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Side-note to Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Olsen: 1. Thank you so much Dr. Mitchell for the Emerson: Mind on Fire book! You will see quite a bit from it in my paper! 2. The connection of Schleiermacher to the Sufists was all me. Just wanted to make that clear because I was pretty proud of it. Lol
Just wanted to let you know... love this :)
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post, and one I can definitely relate to!
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