Friday, October 09, 2009

Back to the books!

As the regular readers of Raspberry Rabbit might have noticed (that's all four of you), I've not been around for quite a while.

I will have been ordained a priest 25 years this coming June and in that time I've never had a sabbatical or undertaken any serious continuing education.

I suspect that I was beginning to turn into a one trick pony.

That is now changing. Both for myself and for whatever series of congregations will need to endure me over the next twenty years I decided that it was time to hit the books again.

I've enrolled in a part-time MTh at New College, Edinburgh, which is part of the University of Edinburgh and I am finding it a bit of a challenge in the first few weeks. I've slogged through a bit of Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas and Hans Urs Von Balthasar so far and a series of articles about Theology and Media. This week is devoted to coming up with essay topics.

More later!

3 comments:

Fr Kenny said...

Good luck with the books, pal, but please don't turn into one of they "academic theologians"! Please? I like you as you are, one trick pony or not!

Steve said...

So YOU are raspberry rabbit! All the best with the Balthasar and see you at New College later this week. I think pin-striped suits are great with clerical.....
Stephen (St Mike's)

Anonymous said...

I agree with Fr. Kenny!!