Dear All,
Just want to express my appreciation for the erudite and honestly
controversial discussions that "happen" on-line. I especially enjoyed the
ones on the 4 senses of scripture and on heresy. What would be the
procedure if I wanted to quote someone?
My second question concerns the allegorical configuration of Christ leading
the chariot of the Church followed by the 4 evangelists or Church Fathers
in the 11oos up through 1210. I have been told about one such image in
Dante with Christ as a griffin, pulling the church as chariot followed by
the 4 Fathers, but it is too late for my purposes. Lubac cites a passage
from Hugh Metel (1140) along these lines: "Read, reread, and consider, with
a recollected memory , the writings of the four evangelists, that is to
say, Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory. Mount this four-horse chariot,
which bears you on high and which will show you the highest pinnacles of
knowledge." (v.1; p.16). Does anyone know about earlier cases, especially
with Christ in front and the 4 evangelists/Fathers mounted on horses behind
the chariot?
Thanks in advance.
Pat McGurk
Patricia McGurk Tel. (Home) 1-612-784-8710
Dept. of German, Scandinavian and Dutch
University of Minnesota
205 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St. S.E.
Minneapollis, MN 55455
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