Tag: theology
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Feast of the Ascension
It’s today. I love this picture so much. I’ve learned that the iconography of the disappearing feet is a pretty late medieval development – more on that at Ad Imaginem Dei – and that there is lots more of it. The earlier iconography of the ascension is equally awesome, though. Much more recently, Salvador Dali’s…
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Words for the Day
… while there may be many languages, there is but one speech. Franz Rosenzweig, *The Star of Redemption*, translated by William W. Hallo from the 2nd edition of 1930, University of Notre Dame Press, 2014/1985, 147. Image: “View of the Synagogue at Nuremberg,” James Garden Laing (1852-1915), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Matters of Interpretation 