Genesis – Between The Purple Passages

Understandings of The World, Matter, & Relations Between the Human and Non-Human in Medieval and Post-Modern Literature

The Fall Medieval Christian society understood the Fall as an upheaval of God’s intended design for creation as it brought about a reconfiguration of humans’ relationship to their surroundings, creating a world in which humans now needed to kill animals for food and clothing. The Fall was also understood as… Continue reading

Faith and Culture, Past Essays

De Proprietatibus Rerum, Genesis, Geoffrey Chaucer, Isidore of Seville, John of Trevisa, On The Properties of Things, The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville
Augustine, Genesis 1 and 2, & Female Subordination

In ‘The Literal Meaning of Genesis’ Augustine of Hippo (354 AD – 430 AD) comments on the creation accounts of Genesis 1 and 2 to form judgements on the nature of biblical manhood and womanhood and to develop ideas about the body and human sexuality, focusing particularly on the distinction… Continue reading

Faith and Culture, Past Essays

Augustine, Genesis

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If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Understandings of The World, Matter, & Relations Between the Human and Non-Human in Medieval and Post-Modern Literature

Augustine, Genesis 1 and 2, & Female Subordination