Like a Fountain Flooding the Soul

~ You will be Like a garden ~ And he will fill you With peace ~ Like a fountain Flooding the soul ~ Without darkness Without disturbance ~ Without knowing How. ~ The Ghent Altarpiece, Van Eyck Brothers

A month of inspirers (4) – Adam

We seem to be quite unsure about what it means to be human in the 21st century. One of the themes I return to every month is the figure of Adam, including how he has been portrayed in art - every month it seems to throw helpful light on the question of what it means …

Inspiring Art – Van Eyck’s Adam

A man Naked . Of all But soul . And image Of God . Which was enough To be . For that father All. . from The Ghent Altarpiece

Spiritual Reflection: What does it mean to be human?

What is man that you are mindful of him?The son of man, that you care for him?Psalm 8 At the start of each month, I come to reflect on fundamentals: what does it mean to be human? Three aspects emerged at the start of this October, in 2019: To be human is to be createdTo …

Inspiring Art: “Adam”

Michaelangelo’s Adam is one of the best-known image of humanity’s divine aspect.  We see God bringing man to life, with a heavenly touch, departing from the Biblical description in a flash of artistic inspiration.  This is man in all his divine potential: potentially strong, potentially beautiful, potentially immortal... Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” explores another …

Inspirers: The Inspiration of Adam

Chapters 1-3 of Genesis describe the totally captivating stories of the creation of the universe, the earth, all of life, and human life in particular. “Adam”, for me, represents all of humanity: we are created, related, spiritual, embodied, sexual, articulate, inquisitive, logical, mortal, fallible... "Vitruvian Man", Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" (above) …