Additional Intro for Bill Bekkenhuis

Just a quick (for me) introduction...

I'm not a dedicated internetist (if that's a word) but I have a web page at http://www.users.fast.net/~bekkenhuis/index.html . It hasn't been updated in about (no lie) about ten years as my web-publishing software is corrupt and I'm too lazy to just convert everything to bare-bones html. Someday I will.

I don't believe my theology has changed in any substantial way other than that I'm becoming persuaded by the idea (from both David Tracy and Schubert Ogden) that Christian metaphysics, even in this anti-metaphysical age, is a possibility... and maybe even an inevitability.

As I get older, my theology is becoming simpler (and more boring :-).

I'm about at the point of saying that loving something in its proper relation to God can both enhance your life and, when it dies or disappoints, break your heart - both of which make us more human.

On the other hand, to love something in place of God is to ultimately become consumed by it.

Think Gollum (and, to a lesser degree, Frodo) and the Ring.

More later - don't worry, I'm not normally this brief :-)

Bill (Bethlehem, PA)