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Divine Patterns in the Life of Moses

By Jonathan Pageau on May 17, 2017
Divine Patterns in the Life of Moses

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 […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged bible, Climacus Conference, exodus, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, moses, patterns, St-Gregory of Nyssa, stories, Symbolism June 5, 2017

Heaven Is Round. Earth Is Square.

By Jonathan Pageau on November 13, 2014
Heaven Is Round.  Earth Is Square.

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 […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography, Liturgy, Theory, Vestments | Tagged Andrew Gould, Architecture, bible, building, cosmology, cosmos, dome, earth, flat earth, heaven, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, pantocrator, pendentive, sphere, square, square earth, Symbolism April 7, 2017

What is missing from Aronofsky’s Noah

By Jonathan Pageau on April 7, 2014
What is missing from Aronofsky's Noah

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 […]

Posted in Reviews, Theory | Tagged angels, aronofsky, bible, giants, Jonathan Pageau, nephilim, Noah, russel crow, science, Symbolism August 21, 2015

The Theology of the Icon as a Hermeneutic Tool in the Dialog between Science and Religion: Part Two

By Fr. Steven Bigham on October 25, 2013
The Theology of the Icon as a Hermeneutic Tool in the Dialog between Science and Religion: Part Two

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 […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged analysis, bible, biblical, criticism, fundementalism, Icon, iconography, literalism, Orthodox, science, scripture April 1, 2017
 

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