z is for zounds!

which is short for "christ's wounds" and is a curse shakespeare invoked a lot in his plays. and maybe my invoking that so close to easter is a little insensitive.

but i finally told my supervisor. well, i let my position paper on providence/"god as cause" tell him. i agonized over that assignment, but once it came time to write it, and i decided to take the plunge, it wasn't very hard. in the end, it was more apologetic (in both senses) than i'd really intended. but i was relieved to have finally told him, even though this will definitely change everything. *everything.*

here's are two excerpts:

"Most of all, however, a historian advances human understanding of history. This seemingly intuitive statement demands some meditation: The historian does not conduct research for her own satisfaction, spurred only by her own curiosity. She does the work of history in order that she might communicate both findings and interpretations to a world desirous of meaning. The historian is not only a reader, but a writer."

"The Biblical scholar need not be a native speaker of Hebrew. An acquired fluency in the language of his source material is sufficient. So, too, a historian of Christianity must be conversant in the doctrine of providence. In many cases, she will have been completely immersed in that theology. Yet it need not be her own."