• Love is a Dark Cloud on Fire

  • Sep 24 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Love is a Dark Cloud on Fire

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  • Your hosts dig into Gregory of Nyssa like babes in a garden —only to find they’ve stumbled upon a mountain. Or have they plummeted into an ocean? Do metaphors mean anything at all anymore?

    Gregory’s essay on biblical interpretation distills the patristic allegorical approach while his vision of divine ascent is a bit darkened on nuptial wine: the soul’s journey to God, turns out, is less an enlightening and more an erotic union.

    With Origen hovering like a familiar ghost and Song of Songs as the textual vineyard, your hosts light some candles in Nyssa. From whence the fire?

    What are we, prophets like Moses?

    Have a question for Jordan or Charles? Email charleshugheshuff@gmail.com.


    We discussed the text in this edition with a new translation and notes: Richard A. Norris, Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Song of Songs (SBL)



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