Buzzkill
The inestimable creativity of Douglas Adams notwithstanding, the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” might be something other than “42”
The astute among you will have noticed that my last post was well over two years ago. If you were waiting for the second installment of my thought project linking Trinitarian theology with String Theory, you have no doubt been scratching your head and wondering if I’ve been felled by some kind of personal tragedy. I have, but it is way less serious a matter than you imagine.
What happened is this: I went to work on the next post almost immediately. I did quite a bit of research, poring over the writings of early Church Fathers to glean an authoritative understanding of the Triune God, His component persons, and their inter-personal relationships. It was difficult work. Reading the early Church Fathers is not unlike reading U.S. tax code, slightly more momentous perhaps, but dry as a Baptist county. When I was finished, I went back over the text to make a few adjustments and ended up accidentally deleting the whole thing in a disastrously irretrievable way. Continue reading
