Monday, October 15, 2007

Senior Essay

DECADENCE, CHRISTIANITY, AND OSCAR WILDE'S CONVERSION TO CATHOLICISMIntroduction: The Long Road to RomeOscar Wilde died in 1900, as he had predicted he would. “Somehow I don’t think I shall survive to see the new century,” he told his friend Robert Ross. “If another century...

Friday, October 12, 2007

Ideas of Purity in Late Antique Zoroastrianism and Christianity: A Comparison

I wrote this paper partly as an expression of contempt for the professor and partly from a genuine fascination with Zoroastrianism.In the period during which the two faiths had the most direct contact neither Christianity nor Zoroastrianism could be said to have had a univocal...

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

An old disability studies paper

Looking back, I find the first three parts uninteresting, and part one difficult to read, but parts five and six include most of what I still find interesting about disability theory.“He Hath No Form Nor Comeliness”: The Disabled God and an Alternative Theology of Physical Disability...