Dissertation submitted

As a former C & MA guy myself, I'm impressed with your choice of Dr. King as a reader for your dissertation. I have a lot of respect for his work.

Tom

 

What was your dissertation topic?

 

(Sorry if, in my excitement, I've gone somewhat off-topic. Please consider, however, that I just got out of hospital after nine days when my manic-depression and diabetes became simultaneously out-of-whack. So, I have a lot of degreeinfo to catch up on. Also it's been suggested ... though I've not been diagnosed ... that I might have attention defecit disorder.)

Thanks for the answer.

 

Hi, Roscoe,

Sorry if I sent your thread off-track. As I was just explaining to emzee, I just spent none days in the hospital when my diabetes and my manic-depression got simultaneously out-of-whack. As it would just so happen, while on psych ward, I met a fellow patient who had her master's in counseling and had passed her state licensure exams and I believe that she was looking for her first job as a counselor. She had confided in me about certain childhood traumas and this helped me open up in the counseling groups. I had heard of the "wounded healer" many years ago while under the care of a Christian counselor named Charles Davis (DMin, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary) in Seattle. If I understood the wounded healer philosophy correctly, the notion seems to be that those with mental illnesses can make very good, empathetic mental health professionals (proivided they keep their conditions under control). I told her that her selling point in interviews should be that, as a wounded healer, she would make a wonderful counselor. When she told me that she was a Christian, I told her about Isaiah 9:6: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. And the government shall be upon His shoulders. And He shall be called Wonderful Counsellor." And I hope that's not heretical, for John 1: 12 says, "For as many as have called upon His name, to them gave He power to become sons (and daughters) of God." (In other words, as a Christian, she is an adoptive daughter of God, just as all Christians are God's adoptive children.)

At any rate, I hope you can forgive my confusion regarding the wounded healer and Christ the Healer. After all, "He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities" (and I think this is Isaiah 53).

 

This looks like a tempting morsel for my Christmas and birthday gifts wish list.

Does God allow us to pray for dissertations?

 

Hi Ted,

Your mailbox is full. Could you send me an email at [email protected]?

Thanks.

Roscoe

 

Thanks for telling me. I usually use my PM box, email(s) as an historical file, saving everything. I'm especially reluctant to delete anything from fellow historians. But I'll delete a few old PMs and shoot you an email.

 

Email sent.

 

I just received word from the University of Pretoria today that my doctoral thesis is not available for viewing online as part of the university library's E-dissertation and E-thesis collection. It can be viewed at the link provided below if anyone is interested:

http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10172009-105350/

 

Hi, Roscoe! I finally found your email answering my questions on the theology of prayer and whether an ex-atheist can be saved. Thank you! When do you defend your dissertation/find out the results? Hope it goes/went well. I look forward to reading your new book on F. F. Bosworth.

 

Neu lp.d

Hey,

So you're in the LP.D program at NEU? I just applied. Would you be willing to talk with me?

Jeff