"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us..." A comment made by Hanson and Heath has given me added insight into this passge of Scripture. In their book they say, "the dramatist Eurpides, who saw that the word must become flesh, wrote, 'I don't envy wisdom, indeed I rejoice seeking it out, but there are other things, great and manifest ones everlasting.' " This is all in the context of the Greeks believing in a cohesion of word and deed. All the words of God prior to Christ merely foreshadowed their manifestation. Word and deed are inseparable, hence word must become flesh, and indeed it did!

Furthermore, the pursuit of wisdom in-and-of-itself is worthless; it is exactly because wisdom was made manifest that validates the chase. It is when we pursue the manifestation--Christ himself--that we gain wisdom, or more accurately since He has pursued us, we can pursue Him. Even more than this, Christ was more than wisdom made flesh, but the very Son of God being made in human likeness, for all the fullness of Deity dwelt is Christ in bodily form, great and manifest everlasting.

When I read the articles and blogs and books of men like George Grant, Peter Leithart, and C.S. Lewis, I'm just awe-struck of their consumption of literature, philosophy, history, theology, language, and on and on, and their recapitulation of that diet. I am humbled by how much I do not know, but yet spurned on by their example--not learning for learnings sake, but learning for the sake of the Gospel. I don't know anything! I would need about 15 years (at least) to read and study all that I needed to just to have enough background information to begin comprehension. Well, it's off to study Greek vocabulary!

I am reading Who Killed Homer? by Hanson and Heath. In the book they contend that the current view ofeducation has shifted towards pragmatism and away from the classics. By "classics" I think they mean learning to actually think. I tend to agree with this assessment mainly because a pragmatic view of education would simply be equivalent to learning inputs and outputs without learning HOW the inputs become the outputs. Education becomes mechanical only, not thought provoking.

Well, I decided to change the name of the blog to thelomanthanein, which means "I want to learn" in greek.

My name is Kelly Kerr. I'm a math teacher at Levelland Christian School. I am currently teaching myself Greek, in order to both study the New Testament in the original, and to read the greek classics.

The reason I chose mathete (the transliteration of the greek word for disciple, pupil, follower, or learner without the 's' since "mathetes" is already being used) is because I have a great desire to learn. So, I'll post primarily the things that I am currently learning or would like to learn.
I must say, though, that learning for learning's sake is vanity. Education, whether self- or institution-, is a means of repentance (George Grant). Everyday I must stand before God and say that I don't know what I ought to know--teach me. Education is an endeavor into humility.