Now I have a complete draft of my manuscript,
The Architecture of Wisdom. In the final chapter, I wrote:
In this mature stage of my career, I feel a profound sense of "existential debt." I owe the world for the diverse traditions that have fed my soul and the global community that has provided the ground for my second vocation in theological education. I have come to view my scholarly work not as a means of personal "gain"—which Qoheleth reminds us is but a "chasing after the wind"—but as a way to "pay back" the world. I wrote this book to share this communal and cultural wisdom with a global family that is currently exhausted by its pursuit of permanence and its greed for accumulation.
