as part of my research for my thesis, i have been looking through my old systematics notes. i have found things from four or five different classes that pertain to my paper.
but reading them, i am struck all over again by the beauty of the gospel. it is so elegant and complex, like euclid's proposition 1:47 (his proof of the pythagorean theorem). kendal did such a good job presenting the complexity and mystery of scripture that i was close to tears several times at the library today.
i don't like kendal. i think he is socially lousy; distant and cold and too wrapped up in ideas to care adequately about people. i think he likes rules and his own thoughts too much to be adequately gracious. but he is one hell of a teacher.
i need to read theology more when i don't have to.

i also need a t-shirt that says "spiritually disorderly."*










*a reference to kendal's expression of john wesley's views on original sin...that it does not make us so much depraved as spiritually disorderly.