Three Men on a Bench (To Say Nothing of the Thief)
On how Paradise was painted in Crete — and why it still matters.
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Field notes and essays on the churches of Crete: their frescoes, painters, inscriptions and the people around them.
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Eastern Orthodoxy, though shaped in the Greek world, thinks about God far more like Israel than like late Latin Europe.
If there is anywhere a nameless yet still pulsating core of Judaism preserved within Eastern Christianity, it is in the liturgy.
The prohibition against depicting God is one of those moments when we see how deeply the Christian East grows out of Judaism – and how sharply it diverges from the West.
There is something in the Eastern tradition that immediately evokes the prayer and spiritual experience of the Old Testament: a way of relating to God not poured into personal emotion, but immersed in rhythm, repetition, community, and mystery.
The Three Kings, or the guinea pig
An iconographic tale about kings who never existed.
How Jesus Was Bathed
Cretan Frescoes, Apocrypha, and Other Inconvenient Facts About the Nativity