By Julia Liu, Wren McMillan, Ann Rayburn In our group discussions, we started by understanding the commonalities between different visions and thinking about why they are in common. One aspect we found across multiple visions is the aspect of retelling. The vision is not just for the visionary to keep, but to spread it to other people so they can witness it too. The visionary is in a sense only…
By Julia Liu, Wren McMillan, Ann Rayburn This is a genuine question. For all we know, God most probably speaks a language. Or rather, language holds an incredibly role in the Bible as well as the Old Testament narratives. In Genesis, God created the world by commanding. He said, “let there be light”. And there was light. It was God’s words that made the world. In the Old Testament narrative,…
Boethius and the Notion of Duality By Ann Rayburn, Julia Liu, Wren McMillan In discussing the depiction of women in Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy, we found that the main women character, Lady Philosophy, seems to embody a sense of duality. On one hand, we can see that in the Consolation, Lady Philosophy assumes the role of consoling Boethius. We see her as “in a gesture of gentle efficiency, she…
