BiblioFiles #80: Anagogical Reading
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According to an ancient tradition, there are four modes of reading when interpreting the Scriptures: literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogical. While the first three modes lend themselves pretty clearly to secular reading as well, the idea of the fourth is somewhat challenging. In this episode we set out to understand what it means to read analogically and discuss whether it is appropriate when reading texts that aren’t sacred.
Referenced Works:
– “The Banquet” and Letter to Con Grande Della Scala by Dante
– The tenth article of Aquinas’s Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine
– Catholic Catechism 115 and 117.3
– Paradise Lost by John Milton
– “Redemption” by George Herbert
– “Spring and Fall: to a Young Child” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
– Babette’s Feast by Izak Dineson
– “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry” by Carl Jung
– The Abolition of Man and “Myth Became Fact” by C.S. Lewis
– The Odyssey by Homer
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