Bre's last confusing blog post for the semester, read all about it.
Bre's last confusing blog post for the semester, read all about it
by Breanna Poole
Watch as I, once again, make not one lick of sense for the final time this semester! *insert Hurrah! sound here* Because I never really make sense with these blog posts, do I?
Alright, okay, time to be serious.
One thing in John Donne's Devotions that I enjoyed was the opening to Meditation. "It is too little to call a man a little world; except God, man is a diminutive to nothing," pretty much set the tone for the section very well. I think this idea is a really interesting one because the idea of man's place in nature has always been an interesting concept, especially in relation to when that man is a believer. I think it's great that Donne included the part about God still being above man, because He most certainly is and that is something we should include always, but he still didn't shy away from what man is and what man can do. The physicality of man and the physical relation it has with nature.
I enjoyed the respectful and irreverent way he talked of the human body. I think it's important to talk that way of the human body, as it was after all made in the image of God and even if our bodies weren't, it was still made by Him, meaning that it was designed with obvious and perfect intent. John Donne's description of the human body gave respect to the way it was created. This goes hand-in-hand with the metaphor of sin as sickness -- if our bodies and the world was made by God, then sickness is sin and the symptoms are what we do with that sin. It was a great extending metaphor and I loved it.
My blog post about it probably made no sense though.
P.S. I commented on Cade and Hannah's posts.
by Breanna Poole
Watch as I, once again, make not one lick of sense for the final time this semester! *insert Hurrah! sound here* Because I never really make sense with these blog posts, do I?
Alright, okay, time to be serious.
One thing in John Donne's Devotions that I enjoyed was the opening to Meditation. "It is too little to call a man a little world; except God, man is a diminutive to nothing," pretty much set the tone for the section very well. I think this idea is a really interesting one because the idea of man's place in nature has always been an interesting concept, especially in relation to when that man is a believer. I think it's great that Donne included the part about God still being above man, because He most certainly is and that is something we should include always, but he still didn't shy away from what man is and what man can do. The physicality of man and the physical relation it has with nature.
I enjoyed the respectful and irreverent way he talked of the human body. I think it's important to talk that way of the human body, as it was after all made in the image of God and even if our bodies weren't, it was still made by Him, meaning that it was designed with obvious and perfect intent. John Donne's description of the human body gave respect to the way it was created. This goes hand-in-hand with the metaphor of sin as sickness -- if our bodies and the world was made by God, then sickness is sin and the symptoms are what we do with that sin. It was a great extending metaphor and I loved it.
My blog post about it probably made no sense though.
P.S. I commented on Cade and Hannah's posts.
I love this! Our bodies do deserve respect and love from us, because we are all special and created by The Creator. How much better can it get? I can definitely find appreciative aspects in the metaphor about sin being sickness because sin always catches up with anyone and weighs on them just as an illness/sickness does! Great Blog, B!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post! I loved reading your opinions on sin as a sickness, I think it is a really cool way to look at sin. And our bodies do deserve respect because we were made by God and our bodies deserve love. Awesome post!
ReplyDelete-Madison Flowers
This wasn't confusing at all, at least not to me. I also think it is great and important how Donne describes the human body. I especially like how he described the body as basically some sort of building/temple that we build up brick by brick. We build it up and God builds it up. That should be reason enough to take care of ourselves.
ReplyDeleteRated 10/10: made sense.
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