In his book The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart explains very elegantly the relationship between Being and Intelligibility. Hart relies on philosophical argumentation as well as a multiplicity of traditions that...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
