You quoted one of my favorite Gerard Manley Hopkins verses. He was such a genius with poetry. ... places,/Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/To the...
Angelika: I spent a year in Munich about 25 years ago, and found a Protestant church (Evangelical: that is, Lutheran) that was, as you say, gloomy. Then I...
... I'd recommend starting with the poetry of John Donne ;) Part of the reason for using this imagery is that erotic imagery is one of humankind's most...
... I think, it is rather complicated. On the one hand, there is very much selfishness in erotic love, and sometimes the results are disastrous (adultery and...
Thank you, staghorn, for pointing out a really nice calender Cai ... Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! [Non-text portions of this...
Oophs... since there's also a thread on THS, I probobly should have used a different word than nice. How about inspiring? Cai ... Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus...
I forget, now: was this thread actually started by reports about Bendict XVI's first encyclical, "Deus Caritas Est"? I treats of just these questions at...
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I didn't mark anything as I went, and now, typically, I'm struggling to find what I'm looking for. So, I'll continue looking, but don't hold your breath....
Thanks to all of you for the present discussion, even if I'm just lurking. And special thanks, Ann, for the quote from Thomas a Kempis, which I will hang over...
How fitting is this discussion for the celebration of love on February 14! ... Absolutely. We tend to look on romantic love, eros, as being different than ...
AJA
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Feb 6, 2006 10:27 pm
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This has been a great discussion. There are many great metaphors for God, many means for devotion and understanding. Last night in a freezing partking lot-- I...
Great post, Cai! ... That is changing! We do hear the feminine pronoun referring to God in my Methodist church here. ... Oh, yes it is! And it's being...
AJA
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Feb 11, 2006 5:06 pm
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I did like your post, Ann, and found it so interesting. Thank you. Thilde....
Thilde Fox
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Feb 11, 2006 5:56 pm
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Personally, I feel uncomfortable with "God is ...". Of course God can be equally well represented by feminine as by masculine imagery, which the churches are...
... From: "Angelika Schneider" <anka.sch@...> To: <coinherence-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:18 AM Subject: Re: [coinherence-l]...
John Reilly
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Thank you Ann, for a wonderful post. Cai ... Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars. [Non-text portions of...
A blessed St Valentines Day. May love of God, and hence of each other, grow and prosper into proper fufilllment. Cai ... Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share...
Hello, everyone! I am new to the group, so this is my first post. For a college lit. class, I'm researching and writing a paper analyzing Williams' book, The...
... Some of these might help: Arnold, Clinton E. 1992. Powers of darkness. Leicester: Inter-Varsity. Dewey: 235.409 015 ARNO ISBN: 0-85110-966-7 Examines the...
Thank you very much for the suggestions! I will certainly look into them. Tiffany ... post. ... wondering ... turn to ... Charles ... Williams (by ... ...
H'mm! Wonder what Charles Williams would make of this? "SwarmSketch: Collective sketching of the collective consciousness. http://www.swarmsketch.com/ "This is...
Try also the introduction to Williams's "The Figure of Beatrice", where he sets out the Ways of Affirmation and Rejection of Images (exemplified in the novel...
R. Sturch
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Hello! After a break of several months, last Sunday, I resumed reading posts from coinherence-I. I seem to have been just in time to catch a discussion on ...
... That certainly says it better than I did. Blessings, Ann...
AJA
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... I like the bits in the OT where God says he "sired" (fathered) and "gave birth to" (mothered) the nation of Israel. :) I believe I am thinking here of...
The difficulty with "maternal" imagery is that since Christians know (or jolly well ought to know) that God is the creator of female and male alike, and is...
