RT @nick_routledge: @BremenBod I recall the Redcrosse Project, an effort by contemporary English poets to reclaim St. George from his co-opting by the UK's far right. Fitting, too, that St. George represents a central, interspiritual, Eliatic prototype—most notably in his tie to Islam's Green Prophet, Khezr.
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He said: "What are we to make of the intense religiosity of so much great English literature, in our own more diverse and secular society? What scope is left for social and spiritual solidarity in an England that has, in many ways, outgrown the Church of England? And could a questing and imaginative, poetic engagement with the ultimate questions of religion create new and viable forms of religious practice for today?" He added: "Englishness is an embarrassed thing in all sorts of ways. But a bold, imaginative reclamation is necessary, particularly in the face of the far right appropriation of symbols of Englishness." Titled Redcrosse, the project is inspired by the Redcrosse knight in Edmund Spenser's updating of the myth of St George in The Faerie Queene, a neglected poem yet one of the great epics of English literature.
@PageauJonathan 8/ The messianic prototype fuses prophet and trickster—not as opposites, but as overlapping currents of eschatological capacity: truth-teller and frame-breaker, seer and subverter, revealing God’s truth and destabilizing the world’s counterfeit order in a cruciform pattern.
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