An extended reflection upon the relationship between religion and literature.
Posted in Dostoevsky (Fyodor), Herbert (George), Milton (John), Moliere, Oliver (Mary), Shakespeare (William) | Also tagged "Collar", "Egrets", "Flower", Brothers Karamazov, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Herbert, Good Man Is Hard to Find, John Milton, King Lear, literature and religion, Mary Oliver, Paradise Lost, William Shakespeare | My reflections on the meaning of Homer’s gods “The Odyssey.”
Posted in Homer | Also tagged Athena, Ethics, Homer, Odyssey, Zeus | Literary “close reading” can be traced back, in part, to Talmudic study of the Torah. That helps explain the significance I attach to literary interpretation.
James Richardson’s poem “Evening Prayer” urges us not to narrowly constrain God within rules but to see God as something greater.
A Florida bill allows prayers to be read at assemblies but can’t designate a particular religion, offering openings to various sects. Scott Bates provides the school children with some possibilities.
R. S. Thomas’s powerful poem “Sea-Watching” compares waiting for the Holy Spirit with bird watching.
The opening of the Book of John is poetry of the first order.
Richard Crashaw celebrates the Feast of the Assumption with a feminized Christianity.
Scott Bates describes the sacramental dimensions of devouring pizza.
