This is part 2 of a series: Part 1 Because they are the works of God, who is Himself good, the senses and sensible objects are good; but they cannot in any way be compared with the intellect [nous] and with intelligible realities. -St. Thalassios, On Love, Self-control and Life in Accordance with the […]
Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old. ‒Matt. 13:52 It is the irrational impulses that yearn for innovation. […]
The distinctively fresh and masterful work of Maxim Sheshukov, a contemporary iconographer working in Sviyazhsk (Kazan region of Russia), is another example of the best synthesis of creative interpretation and conformity to Tradition which we can find nowadays. His work was mentioned in passing in a previous article on Contemporary Iconographers of Russia, but I thought it […]
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “The Pictorial Metaphysics of the Icon” The Pictorial Metaphysics of the Icon Part II By Fr. Silouan Justiniano …a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul’s visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of […]
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “The Pictorial Metaphysics of the Icon” The Pictorial Metaphysics of the Icon Abstraction vs. Naturalism Reconsidered Part I By Fr. Silouan Justiniano The Icon is not simply a representation, a portrait. In later times only has the bodily been represented, but an Icon is still supposed […]
Lets now look at the nous as an organ of perception. In speaking of the soul, according to its different faculties, we tend to create a fragmented notion of it as consisting of mutually exclusive layers, rather than as an interrelated whole. Therefore, we tend to forget that the nous permeates all of man. Even […]