Risus paschalis is for Easter & Christmas. Abraham laughed before God; Sarah concealed laughter. They begot Isaac, figure of Jesus, who lived comic love. … Read the post risus paschalis for Christmas: laughing with Sarah, begetter of Isaac
Dante put troubadour / bishop Folquet de Marseille (Folco) in paradise’s third sphere of Venus & lovers. Rahab the prostitute was the brightest star there. … Read the post Dante’s Folquet de Marseille praised Rahab in paradise
Jephthah’s daughter sought to be more honored than Isaac, son of Abraham. She thus urged her father to kill her, telling him to be a man and help women. … Read the post Jephthah’s daughter sought bigger name than Abraham’s son Isaac
In the Satyricon, Proselenos & Oenothea sought to cure Encolpius’s impotence. They mocked Jesus without his selfless love and healing success. … Read the post curing Encolpius’s impotence: Proselenos & Oenothea unlike Jesus
The prophet Isaiah’s story of Ahaz and Luke’s story of the persistent widow are great biblical literature for celebrating every Christmas. … Read the post listening to God & persistent asking: don’t under-interpret the Bible
Dante, Purgatorio c. 25, cites Summae Deus clementiae, but in its struggle to forgive men’s lust, it’s more closely related to Jacob wrestling at Peniel. … Read the post Dante in ring of lust saw men being purified of their sexual sins
Christian Latin hymns beautifully mix epic and ordinary, heaven and earth, in singing of Jesus’s conception, birth, and childhood with Mary and Joseph. … Read the post epic to ordinary: heaven and earth in Christian Latin hymns
Obscured through lofty, pious abstractions of modern translations, ancient Latin Christian hymns had earthy appreciation for men’s sexuality. … Read the post ancient Latin Christian hymns appreciate men’s sexuality
In 11th-century Byzantium, Symeon the New Theologian brought his masculine being, including penis, to experiencing divine eros & union with God (theosis). … Read the post Symeon the New Theologian overcame Christian gender disadvantage
Leo Steinberg’s Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion describes ostentatio genitalium, now vital for overcoming gender oppression. … Read the post ostentatio genitalium saves world from pathological gynocentrism