Reading Journal Home << Previous Entry Next entry >> As I prepare this post, it’s snowing outside—cold, white flakes that put me in mind of the flaky fires of the seventh circle of Hell. Today’s post is all about such unlikely juxtapositions of image and idea and our condition of interpretation. The Defiant Soul &…

Katharina Schütz Zell (d. 1562) was an important reformer in the city of Strasbourg. She became infamous for marrying a priest, Matthias Zell (1477–1548), and publishing a defense of him. She wrote several meditations on Scripture, letters of consolation, and polemical treatises on marriage. In this commentary on Philippians 2:5-11, Schütz contemplates the experience of poverty…