by Gareth Boyd | Feb 22, 2021 | Articles, Bible, Liturgy
(Custom Artwork from David Flores) This Symbolic World is of course heavily concerned with symbolism, and the apprehending of those symbolic patterns which we see played throughout history and within our very lives. As many in this space are either Orthodox or Roman...
by Jonathan Pageau | Feb 17, 2021 | Articles, Bible, Liturgy
This post is a transcript of a video from June 2018. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. This video is based on a Patreon comment. I ask the $10+ level patrons to suggest a subject for a video and then I pick the ones that I...
by Richard Rohlin | Dec 6, 2020 | Folk Stories & Traditions, Liturgy
The life of St. Dionysius the Areopagite represents several challenges to the modern mind. There are, of course, a whole bevvy of scholars who question the idea of whether such a man even existed, still more who hold that the important corpus of works traditionally...
by Jonathan Pageau | Oct 16, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Liturgy, Talks
One of the problems with symbolism is that when people hear symbolic interpretations for the first time, they can often feel like the person doing the interpreting is jumping all over the place. However, for those who have developed a sense for the underlying...
by Daniel Padrnos | Sep 28, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Liturgy, Theory
Wedged between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, high up in the Caucasus mountains sits the small country of Georgia. For 1700 years the Georgian people have managed to preserve their core identity, despite various foreign hegemonies, wars, and the travails of residing...
by Jonathan Pageau | Sep 25, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Liturgy, Theory
This post is a transcript of a video released in March 2020. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription, and to JP Marceau for the edition. One of the things I have been trying to communicate with you guys is that the world manifests itself through a basic pattern. I...