To humour a friend

I just read Christopher's blog (see link on right). He "tagged" me to do the following:
-grab the book closest to you
-turn to page 123
-find the fourth sentence down
-post the three following sentences
-post the author and name of the book
(I hope I'm remembering that correctly.)

So here goes.

"The keeping of the covenant (emunah) on the part of man, who knows he is secure in this relation to God, then finds its expression in the way of life according to the guidelines of the Torah. Buber's determination of the early period of Israel as situated in the life of this emunah-religiosity is of course itself influenced by the ieas of Protestant Biblical criticism in the nineteenth century. Taubes in his turn takes distance from Buber's simple opposition of emunah as an expression of natural belonging to a people and pistis as a "foreign" Greek notion of faith."

From: the afterword of The Political Theology of Paul by Jacob Taubes (translated by Dana Hollander). I have a stack of nine books beside my computer that I have to return to the library after reading from them for my last paper on Romans 13.

Ok, so this was a rather interesting exercise and I didn't do it just to humour Chris. I'm tagging three people to do the same: Matt K, Ann, and Nathan S (Nathan, you can just post yours as a comment--I know you're not blogging right now...)

Today I had a long talk with my mentor at ICS. I'm glad I took the initiative to discuss some questions with him. He's a great mentor. I'm still feeling rather lost, but now am more sure that I don't need to make a drastic move away from ICS in order to be able to honestly express myself. If that's vague, it's ok. I'll be fine.