This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Divine Patterns In Story and Image” Divine Patters in Story and Image part 2: The Iconographic Structure of St-Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses (This talk was given as the Climacus Conference, in Feb. 2017. Click here for audio and images) St-Gregory of Nyssa has given […]
This is post 4 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” (This is the fourth part of a series. Part 1: Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat. Part 2: Where is Heaven? Part 3: Heaven and Earth in The Icon) In my previous posts in this series I have discussed what Heaven […]
In many of my past articles I have explored the symbolism of death and how it is related in the Bible and by our Tradition to the arts and technology, to hybridity and the foreigner, the serpent, to the cave, to Cain, to animality and to periphery in general. Aranofsky’s recent Noah movie deals intently with many […]
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “The Theology of the Icon as a Hermeneutic Tool in the Dialog between Science and Religion” This is the second and final part of this essay. Part One III. Applying the notion of an icon to Biblical texts There was in Antiquity a community, the […]