Moses cannot look directly at God and Semele is destroyed when she tries to do so with Zeus. St. Paul imagines seeing God face to face, however, as does Rabindranath Tagore.
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Thrown and Raised at the Same Moment
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What No Eye Has Seen, Nor Ear Heard
St. Paul writes about how our earthly senses are not enough to put us in touch with God. So does Bottom in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer.”
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What Is Conversion?
For St. Paul, conversion was a blinding light. For Sir John Betjeman, it’s more a stumbling and blindly groping affair.
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Spiritual Lessons from a Happy Hypocrite
In Beerbohm’s story “The Happy Hypocrite,” we learn that to fake virtue can have unintended consequences.
St. Paul, St. Thecla, and the Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath threads between visions of marriage articulated by St. Paul. In the process, she articulates a far more spiritual vision than that propagated by misogynist monks of the period.
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The Something Inside the Nothing
Closely examining St. Paul’s “road to Damascus” conversion experience also reveals insight into the poetic process.
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Love, a Bulwark against Desolation
Toni Morrison expands St. Paul’s vision of love to include erotic love.
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