Tag: Maggie Nelson
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‘…whenever the lover utters the phrase “I love you,” its meaning must be renewed by each use’: The Glory of the Lord, Seeing the Form, ‘The Light of Faith,’ 3.
It was magic. After finishing Bluets the second time through, I messaged a friend — in fact, another former student, another writer, who has given me permission to write about her work another day. Had she read Bluets? I asked. No, the reply came. ‘We were assigned The Argonauts.‘ The Argonauts, I told her, is…
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‘Suppose I were to begin by saying I had fallen in love with a color’: The Glory of the Lord, Seeing the Form, ‘The Light of Faith,’ 1-2.
I don’t feel like I read Balthasar very well today and may have to return to dwell on his words. For me, the term pistis and gnosis are familiar ones from my childhood, words I knew to denote faith and knowledge in the New Testament. I let these words wash over me, sometimes wondering whether…
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