Dear Friends, In less than a week, Jesus in Scripture and Tradition (TH120.1x) will begin. We look forward to having more than 6,000 of you from over 130 countries join us from around the world as we explore the mystery of Jesus Christ. In this course, we will examine how the Person of Jesus is presented and proclaimed in the Bible as a mystery of God's revelation. By "mystery" we mean an identity that can never be fully fathomed by finite human beings because it expresses God's unfathomably loving purpose in creating and redeeming humankind. It requires constant study, reflection, and meditation in order to appreciate, that is, it requires a theological study. Throughout our eight week course, we will investigate what that process looks like rather than providing a full and final definition of who Jesus was and is. Professors Gary Anderson and John Cavadini and their two teaching assistants, Troy and Michael, will provide support for your learning throughout the eight weeks. Each member of our course team wants to make sure that by the end of this course you have a better understanding of the material and concepts presented, so please remember to use the discussion forum and ourFacebookpage to ask them any questions you might have throughout the course. We also have a Twitter account, @TH120x, where our team will post news and updates. We look forward to beginning our exploration of the mystery of Christ with you all, Your "Jesus in Scripture and Tradition" Course Team
Professor Robert Allison, History, Suffolk University shook my hand tonight at the Old North Church in Boston.
He read a poem by Emerson that was assigned in on online class on poetry from Harvard University. This is him reading The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Henry Wadswoth Longfellow)
While I was typing , and elderly gentleman that I happen to occasionally socialize with who appeared in this 1966 film by Andy Warhol happenned to walk passed. I quickly pulled up the film and screened it for him. He described and identified the other actors in the film while it was running, telling me which woman he went to bed with, which he liked most, which actor was addicted to amphetamines, which shared Warhol's sexual proclivity.
Before I had met him, I had happenned to complete an online course on art and Andy Warhol offered by the University of Edinburgh, the university offering an online course entitled Introduction to Philosophy, in which I presently have a mentor position. I am in the class as an observer after having passed for an extended period, about twice as long as the course takes to finish. Actually, I wasn't working on being a philosophy mentor tonight, I'm waiting for a grade in a lingustics course from the Netherlands that finished last week and I'm mostly studying Viking Saga, the Poetic and Prose Eddas from the University of Zurich. The linguistic course featured a graded 12 minutes lecture from guest Naom Chomsky.
That was the movie part of tonight's dinner and a movie. Donna and I had lunch, baked chicken and squash, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the MIT Johnson Athletic Center on Vassar Street.
