Day of the Mother Ship:
A Close Encounter of the Third Level
- Level 1: Religions in General —
adherents.com- Level 2: Religions in Literature —
adherents.com/lit/- Level 3: Zenna and Her People —
adherents.com/lit/bk_Zenna.html
Scroll down about 3/4 of this page to find… Moi!
- Level 3: Zenna and Her People —
- Level 2: Religions in Literature —
Today is also the feast day of Saint Zenna Henderson, who was born on All Saints’ Day, 1917. The Adherents.com website says she was a Mormon, but the printed reference work Contemporary Authors (written when she was still alive and could defend herself against any accusation of Mormonism) says she was a Methodist. Maybe she was just one of The People — i.e., a Person.
“The concept of a person, which we find so familiar in its application to human beings, cannot be clearly and sharply expressed by any word in the vocabulary of Plato and Aristotle; it was wrought with the hammer and anvil* of theological disputes about the Trinity and the Person of Christ.”
— Peter Geach, The Virtues, Cambridge U. Press, 1977, p. 75
See also Terpsichore and the Trinity.
* For a use of this phrase suited to Mental Health Month, see The Prisoner, Episode Ten. See, too, Inaugural Address.