· Green Books V
Possessing the Garden: on enclosure and the desire for Eden
A reading of Terry Comito’s The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance (1978), with Augustine and Robert Pogue Harrison.
Writing
Essays on memory, care and the Christian imagination.
· Green Books IV
The Angel Does Not Take the Cup: on help, desire and the will in Gethsemane
A reading of Maximus the Confessor’s “Opusculum 6: On the Two Wills of Christ in the Agony of Gethsemane” (c. 640–41) and Joseph Ratzinger’s “Kneeling (prostratio)” in The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000).
· Green Books III
What the Hymns Remember: on listening and forms of care
A reading of Francis X. Clooney’s Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary (2005).
· Green Books II
The Helpful Ones: on herbs, blessings, and the possession of grace
A reading of Cassandra L. Quave and Andrea Pieroni’s “Ritual Healing in Lucania, Southern Italy” (2005) and Ernesto de Martino’s Magic: A Theory from the South (1959; English translation 2015).
· Green Books I
Neighbours of the Uncanny: on the search for perfect awareness
A reading of Devoted (2008), edited by Alkistis Dimech.