by Christian Roy | Aug 6, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory, Visual Arts
We tend to forget that the advent of the Atomic Age, with the destruction of Hiroshima in a single bomb blast 75 years ago on August 6, 1945, was not greeted with dread so much as with wonder at mankind’s near-divine power over matter. For it was thought that man was...
by Christian Roy | Aug 3, 2020 | Articles, Language, Theory, Visual Arts
Canadian literary critic Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) became at once a media personality and a media guru in the 1960s, with his ground-breaking reflection on different communication technologies’ effects on consciousness, from the alphabet to the Internet —which he...
by Jean-Philippe Marceau | Jun 29, 2020 | Bible, Liturgy, Theory
In a previous post, 1 I introduced St Paul’s head-body symbolism. In this post, I want to examine one of his richest and most meaningful uses of this symbolism. In Col 1:24, the apostle writes: “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh...
by Derek J Fiedler | Jun 2, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Theory
Telling a story daunts writers these days. On one hand, Big Data has collected an unimaginable storehouse of facts and events. People have never been more informed. Writers have more facts at their fingertips than ever before. In addition, due to the global...
by Eugene Schreder | May 20, 2020 | — Bestiary, Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Short Stories, Theory
This is part I in a two-part article, and the first article in a series of posts that discuss the symbolism of a particular and peculiar literary tradition within Western Europe. Collectively, this body of works is called “the Bestiary.” To reduce this mysterious...
by Max Teernstra | May 8, 2020 | Articles, Theory
One of the central subjects addressed within the Symbolic World community is the symbolism of garments of skin, layers of death, protective veils, and trampling down death by death. The gist is this: the outside world is full of things that harm or kill us, but by...
