Class notes 12/10/09
Final term paper presentation
--Jean—The faith of Job, she was taught the Book of Job as a book of patience, but she now recognizes his faith as his strength to endure his suffering. Her own battle with cancer and a brain tumor; -Oswald Chamber’s Summary: Job teaches us how to suffer; Psalms teach us how to pray; Proverbs, how to act; Ecclesiastes, how to enjoy; Song of Solomon, how to love. – Themes and Lessons, sovereignty, confrontation, faithful, and more. Great presentation.
--Eirc—a caravan of interesting things; National Geographic Channel special on Cain and Abel. Many religions derive different concepts, versions, attachments to the story, the ravens. The Borne Identity movie series as a displacement of Cain and Abel; Prudential Wisdom; Skeptical wisdom, movie Crash; The Book Of Job, suffering, movie, Me and You and Everything We Know.
--Natalie—Suffering and The Book Of Job, Quote from Dr. Sexson, “…suffer, suffer into the truth.” The experience of suffering, isolated and lonely, uncomfortable, questioning. Job and Jacob questioning suffering. Job’s question lead to nowhere, his realization his suffering can’t be answered. Suffering allows us to be connected to a greater whole, everyone suffers, or eventually will. Ending on a personal note, the story of the final hike with her dad. What had started a normal day turned into an extraordinary story; Awesome final quote from father’s mirror. Thanks for sharing Natalie.
-- Abby-- Pictures of reciting bible and given present for doing so. She’s grown up with the bible but never asked whether it’s true, and now know that it doesn’t matter. Combining her traditional and critical view towards the bible. Quotes from Frye, pg. 49, 50. The Slave, 296, suspicion and mockery, doubting the bible but still believing. Apply experience to beliefs, rather than belief to experiences .
--Nick—The book of Ecclesiastes. Life as one big joke. Life is pointless, enjoy it, but that’s hard, because of the like of you people. Should we kill ourselves or not? Movie, the hoax, words by Allen Watts, animation by the south park guys; the music and the journey as the most important. We take life too seriously sometimes.
Final Exam Notes and Review
-Plotz’s final remark, ‘Yes the Bible is definitely worth reading.’
-Shakespeare, read him, The Tempest, “We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” As You Like It,
-The Perfect Day, today, Dec. 10, 2009. Perfection is wherever you happen to be at that moment in time.
-The sacred mountain is wherever you happen to be, Montana, Colorado, Reid Hall
Final Exam -50 points, 25 question
Books- The Book of Jonah
-Song of Solomon
-Ruth
-Esther
Blogs on other two group projects
-Acts and 1st and 2nd Samuel.
-Final chapter of Frye
Pg. 49 and 50.
Pg. 206, 209, 210, 212, 214, 217, 218, 230, 231-232, 233
-206-
description of the bible, a mosaic,
-209-
Parallelism, the balancing of one thing and another. “The unit of Biblical verse is parallelism. A wonderful dialogic rhythm.
-210-
Asses and colts, in the quote from Zechariah, there weren’t two different animals, it’s poetic, there is only one animal
-212-
Lions, monkeys and the notion of authority, law, quantifying
-214-
The bible is a book! The authority of a book. John 8, Jesus writing on the ground with his finger. Metaphysics,
-217-
Frye on education, the purpose of the educator is to take his sheep and move them from where they are to another place, two musician, craftsman, but there’s music greater than that, Bach or Mozart, but then the sense of listening to ‘the voice of music itself.’ Humor Dr. Sexson, go out and listen to Bach.
-218-
Elijah’s epiphany of hearing the still small voice
-230-
The last passage in the Book of Jonah; Jamie’s blog, the question of faith and doubt and our relationship with the bible; the little of ladies, they’re always there. Her overwhelming urge to interrupt the preacher.
Frye, faith has its dialectical opposite; doubt is the complement of faith.
-The final anagogic level of meaning, the highest level of interpretation of a text. Mystical response. The question of death, how do we deal with it.
Nabokov and death, on his own deathbed. The experience as a new language, something is happening.
-231-
The big quote, begins “Wherever we have love, …” “It is only through the study of works of human imagination that we can make any real contact with the level of vision beyond faith.”
