ICS Essays

These are all the essays I wrote for classes at ICS. The syllabus for most of the classes can be viewed here.
If you find any of them helpful, please leave a comment. And if you use them at all, please let me know!
They all received between a B+ and A grade, the thesis itself receiving an A.
Apologies for any formatting issues - if you would like a OpenOffice, Word or PDF version, please ask and I'll be happy to send them.

Fall 2005
John's Word - Biblical Foundations
Evil Sins - A Critique of Herman Dooyeweerd's Concept of Evil - Reformational Philosophy
Evil Relations - An Experience of the Trinity - The Divine (at) Risk
Evil Times - An Ecological Critique of the Doctrines of Individual Salvation, Dispensationalism, Creationism and Obliterationism - Christianity and the Ecological Crisis

Spring 2006
Reforming the Bible -Postmodern Canonicity - Inter-Disciplinary Seminar: Dialogue and Difference
Opening My Other Eye - Postmodernism and the Diversity of Religion - Postmodernity
CreatorCreation - Boundary and Distinction - GodSexWordFlesh & Postmodern Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis

Fall 2006
Why The Tortoise Can Fly - Knowledge as Mythology in Allen, Ansell, Moltmann and Swimme - Inter-Disciplinary Seminar: Art, Knowledge and Life
From Ground to Ocean - (Ful)filling the Abyss - The Ground of Be(com)ing / The Horizon of Hope: Creation, Time & Eschatology

Spring 2007
Jesus Divines/d (God) - Christological Godding - God Inc.: Christology/Humanity/Incarnation
The Big B's - Guided Reading

Fall 2008
From Ground to Ocean - Robinson and Keller at the Beginnings of Divinity - MA Thesis
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Just a thought...

Dissolving the Ego is great. It is the direction of love, of the Divine, of connection with the world and with others. But those with power in the world seem to have over-developed egos (enabling them to separate themselves from others, the earth, even their own bodies), and since they make the laws (and bombs) it may be necessary to have an ego and not dissolve it. Necessary for our own (cultural and artistic) survival. Sad, but (maybe) true.