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Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.

Christological and Pneumatological Images of the Church In early Christian art, there developed a series of complementary visual relationships which I have discussed on numerous occasions and have come to often characterize as the right hand and the left  hand of Christ.  These elements, like the ass and the ox, St-Peter and St-Paul, the good […]

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Heaven and Earth in The Icon

This is post 3 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today”   This is the third part of my reflections on cosmology.  Part 1: Most of the Time the Earth is Flat.   Part 2: Where is Heaven? ————————————————- One of the main purposes of the icon, in its imitation of our Lord himself, […]