Giving Voice to Female Souls: Women and Congregational Song from Plato to Maximus Confessor
Conatus June 30, 2026 Eva Anagnostou-Lautides
The article expands on my recent research on the Platonic milieu of Origen’s perception of the soul as feminine in his Comments on the Song of Songs by tracing the influence of this concept on Maximus Confessor and his Mystagogia. Origen reads the Song as an allegory about the experiences of the soul as it embraces a new state of consciousness through its union with Christ. Drawing on Plato’s...