May 14, 2005
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Powers,
continued“Horton Marlais Davies, Putnam professor emeritus of religion at
Princeton and an author of many books about church history, died on
Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 89…. Dr. Davies specialized in the impact of Christianity on the arts.”
A book edited by Horton Davies,
apparently first published by Eerdmans
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1990The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908) on the communion of saints:
“One cannot read the parables of the kingdom (Matt., xiii) without
perceiving its corporate nature and the continuity which links together
the kingdom in our midst and the kingdom to come. The nature of that
communion, called by St. John a fellowship with one another (‘a
fellowship withus’ — I John, i, 3) because it is a fellowship with the
Father, and with his Son, and compared by him to the organic and vital
union of the vine and its branches (John, xv), stands out….”Related material:
Religious art in the entry Art History of 11 AM Wednesday, May 11, the date of Davies’s death. See also the following direct and indirect links from that entry:
To a cruciform artifact from the current film Kingdom of Heaven, to an entry quoting John xv, Nine is a Vine, and to Art Theory for Yom Kippur.
For less-religious material on the number nine, see the entries and links in the Log24 archive for June 17-30, 2004.
From Rosalind Krauss, “Grids”:“If we open any tract–
Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art
or The Non-Objective World,
for instance– we will find that
Mondrian and Malevich are not
discussing canvas or pigment or
graphite or any other form of
matter. They are talking about
Being or Mind or Spirit.”Amen.
