Promised Bodies by Patricia;

Author:Patricia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT011000, Literary Criticism/Medieval, REL015000, Religion/Christianity/History
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

WEDDING PREPARATIONS

Just as the art of poetry through fictitious fables and allegorical similitudes composes a moral or physical doctrine to exercise the human minds—for this is the proper quality of heroic poets who praise the deeds and manners of brave men—, so theology, as if it were some kind of poetry, by means of fictive imaginations, adapts Holy Scripture to the inquiry of our mind and the impressions of the exterior corporeal senses, as though from some imperfect childhood, to a perfect knowledge of intelligible things, as though into a certain adulthood of the interior man.

—ERIUGENA, COMMENTARY ON THE CELESTIAL HIERARCHY45

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.