[Blog Post] An Allegory of Salvation (Koen Gheuens & Cary Rapaport)

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Ecclesia, just like Church, is a wonderfully polysemous word. It can be the building (sp. iglesia, fr. église) but also all the faithful as a group.

This reminds me of a passage from Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias:

"Of living souls the heavenly edifice is built of living stones. Like a vast city it embraces the great multitude of nations, and like a wide net an immense multitude of fish." (Sc II,3)

"Scivias" Codex: Panel 12