Theological Muse

This collection consists of poems, printed in Greek and English on facing pages, related to theological and religious transformations that shook the so-called Western World during the last two millennia. It moved from Greco-Roman polytheism to Christian Trinitarian Orthodoxy and Islamic Monotheism, in order to end up in Marxist Atheism, and perhaps in a future recovery of the tolerant polytheistic and Hellenistic worship of many gods. By its nature, the theme is serious and delicate,...
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This collection consists of poems, printed in Greek and English on facing pages, related to theological and religious transformations that shook the so-called Western World during the last two millennia. It moved from Greco-Roman polytheism to Christian Trinitarian Orthodoxy and Islamic Monotheism, in order to end up in Marxist Atheism, and perhaps in a future recovery of the tolerant polytheistic and Hellenistic worship of many gods. By its nature, the theme is serious and delicate, but here it is dealt with poetically using a light tone. It is as if the poet looks at the developing historical process as a kind of "divine drama," with its many heretical quarrels and religious wars. Religious Fanaticism, which had its days of glory during the dark Middle Ages, moved on to meet atheistic Communism, the common enemy of all religions. The poems will be of interest to all who love Greece and sympathize with its history and fate, which includes a central role even during this period of religious bigotry.