The Life of St Godric Finchale is not well known. A small passage that text was included in Portable Medieval Reader (1979), edited by James Ross and Mary McLaughlin, because it describes how this twelfth-century hermit had once made his living “by learning to gain bargains things insignificant price,” becoming the process a successful merchant (p. 51). He travelled just across England, but Sco...

abstract  in the wake of renaissance, not only then art and literature pieces but the resulting diverse expressions well reflected the turning revolts in science, philosophy, and politics, and their association which is tremendously clear even among a single artist’s works, e.g. donatello’s sculptures, transparently echoing challenges between old traditions and then new reformations vastly infl...

This essay argues that Ælfric’s discussion of priestly marriage demonstrates an Anglo-Saxon articulation of the difference between Jews and Christians as sexual difference. Ælfric represents temporally distant Biblical Jews as embodying a kinship-based heterosexuality that has been superseded by and is now opposed by Christian chastity and asexual reproduction. This supersession operates throug...

Re-thinking Origen serves as the final instalment of a distinctive theological project. It follows two previous issues Modern Theology, Gregory Nyssa and Dionysius Areopagite, to complete trilogy.11 = Volume 18, Issue 4 (Oct 2002); Areopagite 24, 2008). The unity trilogy lies in its intellectual affinity twentieth-century project patristic ressourcement which involves thinking not only about ea...

Michael Reed's 2012 book Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo sets out an excellent account uncomfortable relationship between Church Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints and core symbol Christianity: cross. Reed persuasively demonstrates that taboo was late development in Saint history locates much taboo's roots anti-Catholicism early to mid-twentieth century.This article presents mo...

Although the number of homosexual alcoholic men and women has been estimatedto be proportionatelythree times greater than the number of alcoholics in the general population, their participation in Alcoholics Anonymous is not consistent with this proportional representation. It is proposed that their are a number of characteristics of A.A., as it is represented in meetings, which discourage part...

This essay investigates the German ex-Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine Francis to writers poets in modernity. intense engagement was rooted Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re-conversion’, an austere form of Catholicism childhood 1920, just a few years after breaking with Dada movement he had helped found Zurich 1916. In letters, bo...