Comments on: Being a Treatise on The Accusation of the Wicked That the Fallenness of the Creation Militates Against the Real Being of God http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563 See what large letters I use as I write to you in my own hand. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: pentamom http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-526 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-526 My brain tends to fry quickly reading academic papers, but I'll just say bravo! to your first paragraph. It was something of a "duh" moment -- one of those things you realize you should have known all along but needed to see in print. To wit: when someone raises this issue, particularly in a personal way, the proper response does not contain the phrase "Yebbut" (or any elegant variations thereupon. ) "Yebbut" tends to be heard by the listener as, "You need to stop caring that your mother died a slow painful death of cancer and listen to my abstractions now." The sensitive apologist will handle this minefield with "humble reliance upon the Holy Spirit," as the PCA Book of Order says in another context. My brain tends to fry quickly reading academic papers, but I’ll just say bravo! to your first paragraph. It was something of a “duh” moment — one of those things you realize you should have known all along but needed to see in print. To wit: when someone raises this issue, particularly in a personal way, the proper response does not contain the phrase “Yebbut” (or any elegant variations thereupon. ) “Yebbut” tends to be heard by the listener as, “You need to stop caring that your mother died a slow painful death of cancer and listen to my abstractions now.”

The sensitive apologist will handle this minefield with “humble reliance upon the Holy Spirit,” as the PCA Book of Order says in another context.

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-527 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-527 It has amazed even me how very brain-frying my academic writing is. I got generally good grades in this class (this assignment, with its awe&#62;&#60;ome title, is not graded yet), but the prose that comes off of the fingers when the work product is destined for academic consumption is, like, an order of magnitude more turgid than normal. Which I didn't even know how it was possible, frankly. Glad that first paragraph did something for you. I think it's an important point: love people who hurt. And it occurs to me that the first two sentences in the second paragraph rhyme and are overly similar in structure. Dang it. Problem of evil, indeed. It has amazed even me how very brain-frying my academic writing is. I got generally good grades in this class (this assignment, with its awe><ome title, is not graded yet), but the prose that comes off of the fingers when the work product is destined for academic consumption is, like, an order of magnitude more turgid than normal. Which I didn’t even know how it was possible, frankly.

Glad that first paragraph did something for you. I think it’s an important point: love people who hurt.

And it occurs to me that the first two sentences in the second paragraph rhyme and are overly similar in structure. Dang it. Problem of evil, indeed.

]]> by: pentamom http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-528 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-528 Seussian apologetics indeed. ;-) (What's the word for the study of apologetic method? Apologeticetics?) Seussian apologetics indeed. ;-)

(What’s the word for the study of apologetic method? Apologeticetics?)

]]> by: Professor Curmugdeon http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-529 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-529 Strange where one's lecture notes turn up... DG Strange where one’s lecture notes turn up…

DG

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-530 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/563#comment-530 Yes, even on the Most Mediocre Blog In The Universe. Just one step from <i>Philosophia Christi</i>, I tell you. Posting papers is cheap blogging for me. I mean, I have to write them anyway, and as you see, I don't have a lot of time for discretionary blogging these days. I'm going to try to squeeze some quality blogging out of TH-501, which starts tomorrow. We'll see how that high-minded idea pans out... Yes, even on the Most Mediocre Blog In The Universe. Just one step from Philosophia Christi, I tell you.

Posting papers is cheap blogging for me. I mean, I have to write them anyway, and as you see, I don’t have a lot of time for discretionary blogging these days. I’m going to try to squeeze some quality blogging out of TH-501, which starts tomorrow. We’ll see how that high-minded idea pans out…

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