| Study tour | 9.30 – 11.30 am, Saturday 13 August | Departing St Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne | Current & former students welcome (+1 friend/family) | Restricted numbers: RSVP essential for attendance | We have something special for our Read more…
The myth of the Virgin mother of God becoming the bride of her Son came up as an aside in Platonism and Christianity class this week. It is similar to other creation myths that also invoke the necessary reflexivity of monotheistic creationism. But this particular myth of the highest heavenly incest has such an exceptional beauty that it was often lovingly portrayed by medieval and Renaissance artists, and yet it is almost forgotten these days.
This Christian mother-wife myth is preserved in The Golden Legend as Ch 119, The Assumption of the Virgin. Find it in the Ryan translation from page 464 to 468.
(more…)The seminal influence of Byzantine Platonists on the Western Renaissance is often discounted these days. Join us Thursday evening (7 pm, 14 July) at this Greek Community seminar and find out just how important were these Greek mystics to the Read more…