Erin Risch Zoutendam
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Core Fellow @SetonHall . PhD from @DukeReligion . Researching the use of scripture in medieval & early modern mystical texts.
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Jane Austen is basically the Audubon for ‘types of guys.’ She does not get nearly enough credit for this; can you imagine the fieldwork it required
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Sir, you are the bride of Christ so jot that down
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Got hooded today! Will be wearing regalia to parties from here on out, so be forewarned.
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Not sure if anyone is left on this website, but I am nevertheless thrilled to report that I will be teaching at Seton Hall University this fall as a fellow in the core department. So many amazing texts on the syllabus (Plato, Aquinas, Romero); I’m really looking forward to it.
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I loved my PhD in the humanities, but I want to offer a word of advice about undertaking graduate studies wisely in this day and age.
Anyone starting a PhD in the humanities, please read this thread at least 10 times.
You will spend anywhere betwen 4-7 years surviving on very little income.
At the end of your PhD, there will be bright chances of you becoming jobless.
Academia doesn't have any jobs. For jobs
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I'm as disturbed about AI as everyone else, but I want to report one silver lining. Having read several clearly-AI-influenced papers this semester, I find in myself a new appreciation for original-but-flawed thinking in student papers.
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Remy, servant of the Living God and our beloved companion of many years, has reached the end of his life. Just wanted to share a few photos of him. ❤️❤️❤️
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There's an 800-page book on the Song of Songs in the Renaissance that I love but can't afford, so every 2 months I place a scan request for one more chapter, hoping that I reach the end before I graduate or the library notices. So yeah I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bad boy
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City I dislike: City of Man
City I think is overrated: City of Man
City I like: City of God
City I love: City of God
City I feel most myself in: City of God
City I dream of living in: City of God
Favorite city of all time: City of God
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I have mixed feelings about publicly sharing good news when there are so many wonderfully deserving people who have not been as fortunate, but I am pleased and humbled to announce that, God willing, I will finish the 14th and final book of the Wheel of Time series this month
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Sometimes you get the feeling that the very online left can imagine a world without poverty and racism and guns, but not a world where someone gradually changes another person’s mind over time
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This owl’s motto says “Though I am hated by all birds, nevertheless I enjoy that.” Relatable king.
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Went to get my copy of the Confessions to read from in class on Tuesday, and it is full of reminders of past readings
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One of my students said: “Do you watch TV? I feel like you might just read primary sources all day.” Nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
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If the Graduate School doesn't let me format the title page of my diss like this, I'm not turning it in
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A bit wild that the best-developed speculative angelology to come out of magisterial Protestantism is probably C. S. Lewis's space trilogy.
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I would say it all began before the foundation of the world, when I was predestinated according to the good pleasure of God’s will
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Very pleased to announce &c
Congrats to the 2024 Lautenschlaeger award winners!
@nathancjohnson8
@ElProfeBarba
@warrenccampbel
@ylandman1
@mdlett
@sarahparkh
@erin_zoutendam
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I gave a short talk today about why we should get comfortable thinking about contemplative practices, mindfulness, meditation, etc., from an ethical perspective. Brief summary below in case anyone is interested; recording should be available at some point.
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We've been talking about belief in the modern world in my classes, so on a whim I brought in this banger.
One interesting item from discussion: I asked my first class how old they thought the speaker was. Half said middle age, but half said they thought he was their age exactly
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Twitter keeps saying “✨we think you might like✨” and then showing me tweets that are lab-designed to make me lose my ever-loving mind
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So happy to get this in the mail today – such beautiful design of an article on Protestants and the Song of Songs that I wrote. The cover design is the four evangelists – just gorgeous.
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When I taught high school French, my students used to (lovingly) make fun of me for saying that each new grammatical concept was my "favorite" grammatical concept. My fall church history syllabus is shaping up to enter me into the same kind of ridicule but here we are.
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It’s spring, time to share this beautiful poem that I memorized when I was 20, believing it to be an innocuous poem about appreciating nature, and failing to grasp that in my 30s it would become a bone-chilling chorus of death
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Cancel me if you must, but chalkboards are better than whiteboards
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@zenahitz
You would think that administrators would know that 18 y/o's are attracted to the 'Hogwarts' aesthetic and renovate accordingly, and yet I have seen the 'Google HQ' aesthetic inflicted on many a library.
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Welcome, all wonders in one sight!
Eternity shut in a span.
Summer in winter. Day in night.
Heaven in earth, and God in man.
Great little one! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth.
-Richard Crashaw, “In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God”
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Decided to get really into the poetry of Richard Crashaw and it turns out every single one is an absolute banger
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I will go to my grave shouting into the void that this R. S. Pinecoffin (what a name! why are there no Pinecoffins today; where did they all go??) edition is a beautifully readable translation that should be more widely recommended for first-time readers of the Confessions
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Happy Friday! Please consider contributing a cat pic for the common good.
This is Molly, who came to live with us after Remy died this summer. ❤️
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The ultimate object of essay-writing isn't to produce an essay, counter-intuitive as that may seem. It's to become the kind of person who can think well and communicate clearly when confronted with a multitude of issues across a lifetime.
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Love to see Piers Plowman and the Theologica Germanica getting some air time
May you be as independent minded as Marilynne Robinson, who when asked by WSJ to recommend 5 books chose only ones published before 1564.
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Very sad I didn’t have the clarity of vision to begin any of the chapters in my diss this way.
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@benjamindcrosby
Sorry to double-comment, but if you go through and substitute "friendship" for "sex" in this thread, you can see how tragic and impoverished this view is. We simply do not have a right to demand from others those things which must be given.
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Oh right like I'm just supposed to teach the Acts of Paul and Thecla without saying it's 'my favorite'? Let's be realistic, please.
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Those of us who use books as coasters finally have a patron saint
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So proud to be out here single-handedly representing ‘The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in Their Augustinian Context’ on GoodReads. (5 stars)
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Re: technology in the classroom, many of my students are great about it, but I had a few students with an actual compulsion to check their phone every ten minutes. It's so painful to watch that I made a new extra credit assignment for next semester.
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Be rabidly protective of your quality of life.
30+ folks, what is your best piece of professional advice?
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Got a good laugh out of MacIntyre calling the NYT “that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory liberal enlightenment”
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The two that I cite most frequently are:
“Local Church Full Of Brainwashed Idiots Feeds Town’s Poor Every Week”
and
“William Howard Taft Historian Confident Solution To Nation’s Troubles Can Be Found In Storied Career Of William Howard Taft”
Onion headlines you still think of years later.
I’ll start:
“Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off on Technicality”
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Happy to see that my article on Mary as a model of mystical contemplation in Mechthild of Magdeburg's 'Flowing Light of the Godhead' -- based on a paper I wrote ages ago during my very first semester at Duke -- is now available!
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Was on the phone with my mom this morning when my dad, a career bridge engineer, found out about this. His first thought was to make sure we have glass-breakers in our cars, so now is a good time to get one and put it somewhere within reach, friends
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In January I declared this the "Year of the Book" and have read/listened to 35 books already. A bit upsetting to find out that all this time the secret to reading more is simply to read more, but there you have it.
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The modern idea that you shouldn’t have to memorize anything because you “can always just look it up” is so misleading. How can you search for something if you don’t remember that it exists? “Organized amnesia” is a good way of describing this way of thinking.
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A very funny sentence about philosophers buried in the middle of this MacIntyre chapter on Hume.
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I had not previously understood that professors are "bad at technology" because every institution has its own uniquely bad technological ecosystem that defies both reason and intuition
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My point here is that you MUST go in with 1) a good sense of your financial situation/goals, 2) options, & 3) the willingness to walk away. Financial aid/admissions is trying to attract as many students as possible; it's not their job to be concerned with your financial wellbeing
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You would think this would be true at least for scientific texts, but I read Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’ this semester (whose concepts I of course already understood, having been taught summaries of his theories in school) and I have been HAUNTED by that text ever since
It's time to say it again:
There is no need to read the classics because the textbook treatments of their ideas are perfectly sufficient.
Have you ever met a physicist who said that you should read Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica?
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Frankly I think it’s high time my dissertation learned to defend itself
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I'm sorry for complimenting someone's sermon and getting everyone all riled up. That's on me, and I apologize and will never do it again.
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"Done Scotus? The Decline of Decline Narratives"
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Wow, Joachim of Fiore's 3rd Age come to pass in our lifetime
The new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS 18) comes out this September. And I just heard:
PLACE OF PUBLICATION WILL NO LONGER BE REQUIRED IN CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRIES! 🎉🥳🙌
This was my number 1 wish for the new edition. I am thrilled!
#AcademicWriting
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I’m sure machine translation will render language acquisition a thing of the past any day now, but there’s something irreplaceably moving about reading the ipsissima verba of long-dead authors.
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I am always saying that a lot of evangelicals would have made really good medieval Christians, and now I finally have a source to cite.
Richard Kieckhefer, Mystical Presence of Christ
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I have found myself giving higher grades than usual to papers where something is broken in the argument but the student did their own thinking and took a risk. I should have been doing more of that all along.
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If this showed up in a David Lodge novel, I would find it unbelievable. Repulsive.
Universities are partnering with sports betting companies to introduce students and fans to online gambling — and reaping millions of dollars in fees.
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Really love this painting of Jerome trying to read while his cat* insists that it’s dinner time NOW
*lion
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Perhaps this is naive, but I was stunned (in a good way) by the last chapter of MacIntyre's 'Whose Justice? Which Rationality?' Seeing as how everyone loves long threads without any pictures, I thought I might, if only for my own benefit, give a brief accounting.
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I’ve said it a thousand times before, but Carlos Eire’s ‘Reformations’ is a treasure. Breathtakingly comprehensive—and yet also a romp.
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The influx of AI-influenced papers makes it SO MUCH CLEARER which students put their own self into their papers and which do not, and I find myself profoundly appreciative of that.
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Second, let's say that a robot could write these essays. Fine. I imagine robots can do push-ups too. But getting a robot to do your push-ups for you defeats the whole purpose. Same for writing essays.
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If Twitter implodes, you can find me in my CAVE in the DESERT
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@quasiaesthete
People want to be friends with you just as much as you want to be friends with them.
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Preparing for our first
@CatherineProj
meeting on the Four Quartets. I’ve had the same edition since undergrad, meaning I get to revisit over a decade’s worth of my own thoughts on the poem – some embarrassingly naive and some hearteningly thoughtful.
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Running around Assisi blessing as many critters as possible, just like St. Francis
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@theodramatist
People like to dog on metaphysics, but “God is not another piece of furniture in the room/another moral actor in the world” is actually a pretty crucial concept imo
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@KaraNSlade
“Please only answer if you know for sure, do not guess” is the evergreen disclaimer I didn’t know I needed until I saw it here
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You must have a plan for how you will fund your degrees *before* you begin. No one on staff at the university will do that for you, so you can't be passive about it.
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@Make_it_Raines
I'm sorry but I truly did not expect anyone to be defending the NRSV's style in your comments, and now I am shook.
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Have been visiting TEC churches up here in the Diocese of Newark while I wait for Philip to arrive. Two really lovely services so far, both in beautiful churches as well. Yesterday I even got to hear a non-manuscript sermon and it was excellent.
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Very excited to receive this from the publisher today! The Komlines are the best sort of people, and I’ve been toying with the idea of switching over to this book in my diocesan church history course.
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(Do you think the people who run universities have ever tried learning, studying, teaching, etc? Such things are indescribably rewarding, and perhaps if they tried it they might really enjoy it and see the value thereof.)
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Memory as the muscle of light 🔥
DEPT OF ORGANIZED AMNESIA
This is from a 1996 Desert Island Discs (BBC4) w George Steiner. His music choices weren't so interesting, but the exchanges are v enjoyable.
Here he was asked about being forced to memorize poetry as a child. I compressed it a bit.
h/t:
@FOMO_sacer
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Celebrating the diss defense with the real MVP/my therapist/my best girl
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I’ve been working toward this since seventh grade, so it’s especially meaningful
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I think this is out from behind the paywall for two weeks! Finally, a chance to answer all your burning questions about Theodore Beza and the Song of Songs...
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When the Trader Joe’s cashier asks me if I did anything fun this weekend (which I maintain is a form of bullying), once again I’m not going to have a better answer than “reading MacIntyre on a Friday night”
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I'm profoundly concerned that this totally fails to address other recent/ongoing issues of episcopal discipline, but I sincerely hope there is indeed a "groundswell" of support for reform. Keep the pressure on.
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"From next month, secondary school pupils in the Netherlands will no longer be able to use their phones in the classroom...The government.. cites distracted pupils and low educational performance as reasons for the ban."
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I don’t watch very many movies, but Glass Onion was a delight and the sweetest little homage to Agatha Christie and I’m so glad we saw it in theaters
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This is a really common misconception, and I'd like to explain why it's mistaken on two counts.
@erin_zoutendam
@rbnmckenna86
Disturbed? Why? Disturbed that the tests you've been giving students are so mechanically unchallenging a toaster can do them? Why not be excited! What a chance to improve your art. What test would be passed by only those who understand what you know?
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If I ever get a tattoo, it will be just be this meme on my forearm so that I can wave it at people who ask about language-acquisition, thereby saving myself the several hours each year that I spend repeating this sentiment
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The typical Glossa Ordinaria layout; we love to see it
Bible nerds!!! I’ve found the most excellent Bible!
The NET has a Bible that publishes ALL the translators’ notes about the passages! And my PhD advisor was one of the translators 😉
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Of possible interest to many: the chapter in Barbara Newman’s ‘The Permeable Self’ (2021) on the advantages and perils of “charismatic teachers”—the kind that inspire admiration down to their tone, gait, and manner—in the High Middle Ages
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Books can get expensive, but we’re really missing the forest for the trees if we think that’s the biggest financial issue in higher ed
Yesterday we were notified by our University president that starting fall 2024 that we will no longer be allowed to assign any resources (books etc) in any class in an effort to reduce cost burden on students.
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When it comes time to form the little communes in which we will weather the apocalypse and preserve knowledge of the past, please consider that I can read Latin and push cattle
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This is in the public domain so technically any one of you can copy and paste it into the introduction of your dissertation
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A list of minor sins that can be purged after death, or “a normal Tuesday” as I call it. Time to go live in the desert, I guess
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