Category Archives: Renaissance
Theological Rivalry
The other day, Jerry said to me over brunch, “Why don’t Jews move to claim Jesus as their own?” I thought about that a minute, then answered, “The evangelicals are the most significant American voting bloc that still supports Israel. … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Jewish miracle workers, anti Judaism and the erotic factor, anti-Judaism and Christianity, archaeology and Roman Judea, archeology and ancient synagogues, archeology and Jesus, Bible movies, Christ of faith, Christian Jewish friendship, Christian missionaries in the ancient world, crucifixion expiating Original Sin, David Flusser’s Jesus, early Christians, evangelicals and Israel, fate of Judas, God incarnate, historical Jesus, Israeli and Christian scholarship, Israelis and Israelites, Jesus and contemporary followers, Jesus and his Jewish contemporaries, Jesus and loving your enemies, Jesus and miracles, Jesus movement in classical times, Jesus the Israelite, Jesus the miracle worker, Jews and Jesus, Jews and loving your enemies, Jews outside Judea, Judaisim in Roman occupied Judea, Judaism and miracles, Judaism and Paul, Luke’s Gospel, mind power, miracle workers as God’s intimates, miracles and laws of nature, miracles and physicalism, non Jewish friends of God, original sin, Paula Fredriksen’s When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation, Pauline doctrines, politics of persecution, Pontius Pilate, Rabbi Irving Greenberg and Jesus, religious competition, Resurrection of Jesus, righteous Gentiles, Roman occupied Judea, Sadducean doctrines, Sadducees, synagogues in the Roman Empire, The Passion of Christ, theological rivalry, theology of contempt
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Time and Me
Time and Me When I was a little girl, I didn’t worry about Time at all. I pretended I was a deer and roved the forests. I pretended I was a boy raised by wolves and roamed the jungle. Back … Continue reading
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Tagged actualization and time, adolescence, adolescent boys, believing the unbelievable, book illustration, childhood’s end, coming of age, coquetry, coquetry in Europe, filling time, Flirting, flirting in America, future, getting your work done, growing pains, growing up in America, here today gone tomorrow, hypothetical and actual, imaginary worlds, intentionality, John Tenniel, knowing what’s real, knowing who one is, learning one’s purpose, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, life lessons, life regrets, life vocation, life’s work, Michelangelo, nostalgia, one’s calling, past, present, realization and time, running out of time, sufficient unto the day, teenage angst, temporality, the coming of reason, the lens of time, the real and the imaginary, Time, time and purpose, time flies, time of childhood, time’s wingéd chariot, to last and get your work done, wallflower, women friends, young girls in bloom
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Is Beauty for the Birds?
Is Beauty for the Birds? We set up our deck fountain fairly late this summer and — as a result, it seemed – no birds came. For weeks, they just stayed away. This was very disappointing, since we watch them … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetic distance, aesthetics, architectural genius, Art, beauty, beauty as objective, beauty as sacred, beauty as subjective, birdbath, birds congregating, cynicism, deck fountain, disputing over taste, environmental harmony, gossip, groupthink, hopelessness, inwardness, outward form, painting seascapes, pornography, propaganda, propaganda in art, quality and quantity, relativistic sophisticates, Roger Scruton’s “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, rudeness, sparrows, suspending disbelief, taste, the eye of the beholder, the qualitative, the quantifiable, the sacred, The Sistine Chapel, The Taj Mahal, ugliness, ugliness in art, water coolers, wrens
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Time Travel
Time Travel When I was a girl in New York City, my favorite thing to do was to go by myself to the Metropolitan Museum. In those days, the vast rooms were usually empty. Often I seemed to be the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson, alone with art, ancient Jerusalem, ancient stones, artistic beauty, “the well of time”, “thee’s and thou’s”, beauty in art, beheading of Mary Queen of Scots, buried layers, bygone feelings, bygone lives, City girl, death of friends, decoding the past, earlier worlds, Egyptian sarcophagi, Enlightenment, Formalism in art, Herodian temple, human incompleteness, irrecoverable past, longing for the past, loss of friends, lost worlds, martial glory, Mary Queen of Scots, meditation vision, Metropolitan Museum, mourning friends, museum visit, New York City, nostalgia, other worlds, otherness, poet laureate, pride and shame, rams’ horns, retrieving the past, Second Temple, self-knowledge, soldier’s duty, Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade”, The Archaeological Method, the past, The Pyramids, The Sphinx, Tudor England, Voltaire, Voltaire on the ancients
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Tintoretto
Tintoretto We spent Monday through Wednesday of the past week in the nation’s capital. Jerry had been invited to the annual Board meeting of the higher ed organization he founded, of which he’s emeritus chairman. When we were first married, … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th century, absurdist philosophers, art and politics, art history, art museums, beauty is truth, dressing to look right, dynamic perception, emeritus chairman, extroverts, favorable impression, handicapped coping strategies, High Renaissance, higher ed organization, idealized figures, introverts, Jacopo Tintoretto, Mannerism, museum visit, neuropathy, painting and politics, paintings of holy figures, paintings of saints, perceiving art, perceiving paintings, picturing belief systems, religious paintings, Renaissance, Renaissance art, Renaissance painter, Renassaince art patrons, Renassaince portraiture, role of spouse, socializing couple, The National Gallery, the ugly truth, Tintoretto, Titian, Venetian painter, Venetian Renaissance, virtual body, visual disappointment, visual experience, visual perception, visually absurd, walking stick, Washington DC
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