Class has just started back up this week and I can already tell that it is going to be a heated semester. Two of my classes are designed in such a way to engage the students in conversation and debate, and by the looks of what we are going to be studying I can already feel the temperatures rising. It has got me both tense and excited.
Today was the second day to go to my World Literature class and the professor decided to take the liberty (of just about the entire period) to rail against the belief of objective reality, truth, and transcendental literature. Even though he did bring up the need to read a text in context (which is true) he went so much further then that. He is all about subjectivity and relativity. Thus he stated for the second time today that one of his main purposes in class is to educate us against the belief that literature can possibly contain some kind of objective authority. This being one of his main motivations, it was no surprise to me to see that the Bible is going to be our second reading for the class. Surely, the decision to read the Bible in a world literature class is no mistake. Especially, in a class where the professor has already been taking cheap shots at the idea of inspired literature.
I am confident that the class will probably be one of my favorites for the semester. It is in these kinds of classes that I grow the most in what I believe. Not because they cause me to retreat to blind isolationist faith but because they force me to search deeper into what I believe to already be true.
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