We are near the end of term at last. We have all had some virus which has slowed things right down.
I was about to give up on Wednesday’s paper for Heythrop, but in the last twenty-four hours managed to write something on Williams and O’Donovan on secularism which seemed to go all right. A reasonably-sized group, most in their fifties, their questions expressing the apparently unchanged English Catholic assumption that the ‘Church’ is a vast oppressive institution. I forget how surprised people are when you talk about the Church as the act of God and act of love, or indeed about society as created by love. I have not managed to write anything on Benedict on secularity, secularism and reason, which was what I first intended that paper to be.
I got the ‘Theology of John Zizioulas’ proofs back to Ashgate with index and Liviu’s bibliography; its cover uses the one reasonable photo of the man I got last year and all in all it looks OK.
So, this weekend, intercessions, evensong and sermon. My cough is going to make us all wish we had changed the rota. Then a short paper on Zizioulas on bishop and ecumenism for the STT, then the Spaemann review and we have another go at setting this Deep Church seminar on its feet. Then the Eschatology paper. Then Easter and new baby. Then the Dogmatics lectures. Those are the edited highlights from me. I am catching up on email now, I promise.
So you Londoners, I hope you will come to the next Deep Church session, and that you will book your place at the big theology-in-London event of the year, the Colin Gunton day conference in September
