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Introduction,Christians; the grounding significance of plants, trees, and . (“tree-matter”) in ancient, Byzantine, and contemporary philosophy; and the powerful allure of trees as a mirror for the human in ancient, Byzantine, and contemporary art and literature. While the place of plants and trees in Byzantine C

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Writing on Trees,is not only a site for philosophical discourse but also a figure for the transformative power of writing as .. Centuries later, the Christian writer Methodius pens his ., a Platonizing dialogue that borrows its setting from the ., while shifting its focus from Plato’s plane tree to the chaste tree b

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In the Beginning, Trees,r stage in his theological vision of the created realm. Basil does not think in their shade; he thinks about trees and helps his audience focus on them. Following primeval growth out of the untouched maternal Earth, he discerns arboreal points of contact with the Logos and the incarnation. Immense v

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Writing on Trees,ong philosophically inclined Christian men. Gregory’s evocation of Basil sitting under the plane tree echoes another solitary figure under a tree—namely, the biblical Jonah, as he appears so frequently in ancient Christian art, languishing under a gourd tree. Augustine’s defense of the gourd in his

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In the Beginning, Trees,monstrates the complex intimacy of these plants, an intimacy into which he grafts human engagement. Such encounters bring what is human and what is arboreal into close contact, without therefore undermining difference.