As an adult, burdened with constant childbirth, Anne Donne seems to have been the audience for some of the greatest poems we have that combine spiritual love and earthly passion – perhaps it's a sentimentality to think this mattered to her.
"The Two Acolytes" describes the diverging paths of two young monks: one leaves the sacred mountain for a life devoted to earthly passion while the other remains faithful to his vows.
She is the first woman Clement has ever been with, the first his anointed hands have ever touched intimately, and the unworldly innocence of his earthly passion is as troubling for her as it is gratifying.
He wants earthly love and prosperity.
The term gospel has connotations of the traditions of Jesus' earthly ministry and Passion that were remembered and then written in the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
They bought sixty thousand acres of ranch land and, acting with a speed and thoroughness indicative of both spiritual passion and earthly cunning, established a commune with the dimensions of a self-sufficient municipality.
Yet when hormones start "breaking like surf over the youth group," Cain finds that he, too, wants "to swap religious passion for the more earthly kind".
Green is also the author of "The Wild Table" (Studio; $40), and here, hunting with Chef Sean O'Toole of Hopper Creek Kitchen at the Hotel Yountville, her foraging prowess and passion uncover a world of earthly, edible delights.
I watched him support The Office and 30 Rock [while at NBC], when they gave him no earthly reason to support them other than passion.
They are written from the post-Resurrection perspective and they contain an extensive and common Passion narrative as they deal with the earthly ministry of Jesus from hindsight.
