Re: New member

From: charles_almond_pearson (charles_almond_pearson@MSN.COM)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 22:21:00 EDT


Welcome aboard Karey! I'm interested that you cite a faculty
member of Emory University. I admired a book by another Emory
faculty member, Luke Timothy Johnson. The book is "Living
Jesus". Do you have any familiarity with Johnson?

Yours,

Al Pearson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karey Perkins" <karey@CHARTER.NET>
To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:28 PM
Subject: New member

> Hello all,
>
> I am new to the Percy listserv, and when I joined they
suggested that I
> announce myself, so here goes:
>
> My name is Karey Perkins and I am a graduate student in English
and
> Philosophy at Georgia State University. I attended Wake Forest
University
> and graduated with an English/Religion major, attended
Southeastern Seminary
> for a year, and received a Master of Arts in Teaching (English)
from
> UNC-Chapel Hill. I have been teaching at DeVry Institute of
Technology for
> the past ten years. I teach both English and philosophy there.
>
> I entered WFU in 1977 and the requirement of all freshmen
before they
> entered was that they read Percy's "Love in the Ruins," which I
loved. So I
> began my academic career with Percy, and I am ending it with
Percy as my
> dissertation, which I am beginning to write now, will be on
him. Its
> emphasis will be the theology/philosophy in his writing, as
that is my
> background. I'm looking at James Fowler's "Stages of Faith"
(though I'm
> playing with the stages a little) to examine Percy's main
characters and
> where they are in their faith development. Fowler is a
> theologian/development psychologist who takes developmental
psychology and
> applies it to faith in this particular text. He is currently
at Emory
> University in Atlanta.
>
> I want to say that Percy's characters are at the edge of the
> "scientific/independent thinking" stage, dabbling in the next
stage, or the
> "mystical" stage. But they're not quite there, and this
contributes to some
> of the psychological dilemmas they experience, but do not
become resolved in
> the novels.
>
> I am looking forward to listening to the conversations here,
and have
> enjoyed what I've heard so far.
>
> Cheers,
> Karey
>
> Karey Perkins
> Faculty Forum Manager
> Professor of General Education
> DeVry/Alpharetta
> kperkins@faculty.atl.devry.edu
<mailto:kperkins@faculty.atl.devry.edu>
> 770-521-4900 Ext. 3252
> karey@charter.net <mailto:karey@charter.net>
> 770-649-1460
>



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