A fascinating book by a brilliant scholar

Unexpected reference to the mysteries and initiation in Deadwood, re: the telegraph

The man in the sky. Cataphatic depictions of God at the Barberini gallery, Potsdam.

Four treatises, ten epistles

Four treatises, ten epistles.

I found this at the wonderful Pegasus Books in Wellington, Aotearoa. An unexpected surprise.

It reads more like Parker’s translation than Luibheid and Rorem’s. Here is the first page next to Parker’s text for comparison.

It reads more like Parker’s translation than Luibheid and Rorem’s.

Here is the first page next to Parker’s text for comparison.

A 1980 reprint (originally published 1957).

No mention in the book’s introduction of the Areopagite being “pseudo”, despite being published half a century after Koch and Stiglmayr’s findings.

No mention of a specific translator, just the “editors of the Shrine of Wisdom”.

Frye’s book Words with Power

Stained glass windows- St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland

St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland

Christmas gift from my parents-in-law ❤️

The Scotus hashtag always gets me excited for some Eriugena (or at least Duns) discussion

We don't make enough of the fact that the first Christian denomination with which extraterrestrials made contact of the Third Kind (in Papua New Guinea in 1959) was Anglicanism (they even stayed for the duration of Evensong)

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

New books to keep me busy.

Attic Greek grammar

To glance at as I study Attic

Wat liefde vermag - What love can do. 🙏