Ten Images for Reading Chinese Literature

Episode 1 February 28, 2024 00:29:48
Ten Images for Reading Chinese Literature
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Ten Images for Reading Chinese Literature

Feb 28 2024 | 00:29:48

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Show Notes

In this episode, Fr. Symeon employs ten images to explain how to approach ancient Chinese literature, and other kinds of literature, from an Eastern Orthodox Christian perspective. This approach is not primarily aimed at collecting ideas or developing insights in the rational mind, but rather aimed at the purification of the heart and the healing of the soul. 
 
 
 
Sources mentioned:
 
St. Justin the Philosopher, “The Second Apology of Justin,” chapter X, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, ed. by Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004), 191-193.
 
[St.] Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses, trans. by Abraham J. Malherbe Everett Ferguson (New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1978), 62-64. Originally published by Paulist Press.
 
St. Basil the Great, “Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature,” Frederick Morgan Padelford, Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and Basil the Great. Yale Studies in English 15 (1902) pp. 99-120.
 
St. Gregory Palamas, The Triads, trans. by Nicholas Gendle, Classics of Western Spirituality (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983), 28-30. 
 
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