Status update
Sunday, 10 April, 2005
- I now have a very rough essay plan and an argument (my argument is that the heart of Jesus identity is that he is the Son of God which seems like an awfully simple thing and yet gets more brilliant the rich the more you unpack it ... well, hopefully, anyway ...) Tomorrow will hopefully be spent writing but I also have to do some grocery shopping in the morning and we have a dinner date with Duncan and his brother in the evening.
- I was on Bible reading tonight and had to read through almost four whole chapters of Genesis. I got lots of nice feedback afterwards—people told me they didn't get bored!—and Malcolm told me that I didn't mumble which is great because I always mumble!!
- Using this hack, I have been able to convert our DVD player (an LG LX D2230) to multi-region. (Steps are: turn on player with no disc inside; press stop; press pause; press 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9 and then change the region to 0; press pause again; turn the DVD player off; wait; then turn it on again.) This means I can now watch Mansfield Park on it which is in Region 1 as they've never released it as Region 4 (well, not to my knowledge anyway).
- I volunteered myself for a reading slot at Continuum 3 which is quite scary but will hopefully be good for me as it really is my kind of thing. Now I have to decide what to read but it will probably be the last section of my Honours thesis.
- Am now trying to think of an interesting and worthwhile but short question to ask Mr Gaiman should I happen to meet him (though I'm definitely going to a signing—would love it if he signed Coraline for me!) I welcome any suggestions of lovely places to visit while we are in Melbourne in July.
- The holidays are so close I can taste it! Yummy!!!
Once this essay is out of the way, there will be nothing but reading (lying about in the sun), watching fun movies, going for walks and knitting!
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Hi Karen,
Just thinking about your essay (and this is my first visit to your blog so forgive me if you’ve already talked about this) and I’m wondering if you’ve engaged with any of N.T. Wright’s works on this question. Two of his books, “The Challenge of Jesus” (for the smaller version) and “Jesus and the Victory of God” (for the heavy-weight approach) both deal with the question of Jesus’ self-understanding, in a way which revolutionised my thinking about Jesus. You can find some other Wright writings, some of which may be on topic, at http://www.ntwrightpage.com/.
No, I don’t get commission for his book sales, but I’m a huge, biased fan of his work as I found it refreshing and intelligent. Most of my lecturers aren’t such good fans though, and I’ve yet to discover whether I’ll lose brownie points for including him in my bibliography!
Anyway, hope that helps if you’ve not encountered him before (and have time to check out new books before your due date etc etc.)
Hi the_blacke! Thanks for dropping by! I have read some NT Wright (see previous discussion) but probably not enough. Unfortunately I don’t really have time to do it for this essay but thanks for pointing me in a helpful direction anyway.
Looking forward to hearing your reading!
I wish I was there to see you read!
Also, thanks for that DVD hack - ours is a different model LG, but I discovered that it works nonetheless.