"We talked about the Bible and we talked about God. [Gore] could quote the Bible," Kapetan said.
On the wall of his room, Gore had a picture representing Daniel in the Lion's Den--an Old Testament allegory of the benevolence of God amid personal crisis.
Gore was always interested in the life of the mind, his friends say, and this extended to his choice of classes.
His favorite course was Social Science 139, "The Human Life Cycle," taught by Erik H. Erickson. For two hours a week, Gore sat enraptured by Erickson's lectures.
Kapetan remembers evenings where Gore would wax eloquent about Erickson's theories.
Gore "had a whole idea of maturation through the theories of life. That's why he explained it well. It was his spiritual life," Kapetan says.
Gore's environmentalism, nurtured by his summers on his family farm, acquired intellectual weight when he took courses in ecology, psychology and politics as part of his concentration in government.
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