Thought provoking statement 5: I have never met an animal like you

Thought provoking statement 5

Photo: SS House, Besonias-Almeida-Arquitectos, Argentina 

The University of Manchester 1999-2000: 

Advisor and Professor P 

'I have never met an animal like you.' 

This statement was in the context of this tutor with an encyclopedic knowledge of philosophy and philosophy of religion, strongly wanting me to abandon my views in regards to Reformed theology, in order for me stay within that academy. The scholar that had agreed to work with me was away on the Continent for a year. I was soon inspired to succeed at Wales (MPhil/PhD). My topics were problems of evil, theodicy, free will and determinism.

Admittedly, I had much to learn in regards to philosophy of religion, but my eventually completed Wales, MPhil/PhD thesis only degrees were approximately, content-wise, as much philosophy of religion as philosophical theology. I suppose I had the God-given ability and drive.

Perhaps, by God's grace, I have encyclopedic knowledge now, with still much to learn. Everything I have (or do not have, in a sense) is from God, as the primary cause. This without denying secondary human causation, as in me obtaining my degrees with my own research, reading, writing, revising and editing. I also required essential assistance from academic advisors within the British academic system to pass, and as well, the use of key academic sources from the academic world.

I am also not hairy enough to be an animal...