Introduction

This blog is primarily intended to be an outlet for processing my ongoing thoughts and reflections on the things I'm reading or on other ideas I happen to be confronted with. It may, perhaps, have the secondary effects of provoking dialogue with the reader and/or causing the reader to reflect on something new themselves. I thus acknowledge that most of my musings will be provisional and incomplete. But such are a great deal of our thoughts, I suppose.

A word then, about myself and my interests. I am hoping to begin a PhD program in philosophy in the near future. I am interested in both analytic and continental schools of philosophy and their bearing on theology and religious studies. Therefore, my posts will largely be on philosophical and theological topics, though I may stray from time to time.

My posts will consist of about 3 things:

1.  Reflections on what I'm currently reading in philosophy and theology.
2. Amended versions of papers that I've written.
3. Topics in philosophy of religion that continually interest me.

As a preview of some of the things to come, I will say that I'm currently in various stages of reading Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor, On the Incarnation of the Word by Athanasius, and The Nature of Necessity by Alvin Plantinga.

I will also probably post parts of the paper on the problem of evil that I recently presented at the Society for Pentecostal Studies Conference.

Again, this blog may not be very interesting to the reader, but that's because it's more for me than for anyone else.