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 1 of 2 in the series “The Dog Headed Icon of St-Christopher” This post is the first of a series. Part two The icon of St-Christopher is one of the most astounding images found in the Orthodox Tradition. Showing a dog-headed warrior saint, it conjures fantastical stories of werewolves or of […]
One of the most surprising images one is faced with considering Orthodox liturgical symbolism is the bishop’s staff sporting two snakes flanking a small cross atop it. Especially in a Protestant North American context, this image seems to hark back to ancient chthonian cults, more a wizard’s magic staff than anything Christian. As I have […]