Tag: Sinful Woman

Holy Arousal

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Public Orthodoxy

February 26, 2019

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Sacramental and Liturgical Life

Eros, Hymns, Romanos the Melodist, Sinful Woman, Thomas Arentzen

by Thomas Arentzen St Augustine once observed: “It is longing that makes the heart deep” (Tractates on the Gospel of John 40.10). As a scholar of the early Church, I am often struck by how much early Christians longed. They ached and urged and craved intensely, wanted and thirsted immensely, desired and hungered and yearned […]
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