Articles
Jonathan & St Maximus vs JP & St Thomas: Is Symbolism Dangerous?
Jonathan and JP have a cordial debate about how to approach symbolism and whether symbolism is dangerous.
The Inverted World and Saint Christopher in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
(For my narrative analysis of Majora’s Mask, read here.) The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask was released in April 2000, to both commercial and critical success. It is one of the only direct sequels in the series, and is the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of...
On the Symbolism of ESG
One of the more curious phenomena of the West’s meaning crisis has been the turn of CEOs and business school professors towards the use of explicitly theological language. The Financial Times and World Economic Forum are full of talk of highest principles, generative...
Heaven and Earth
The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in March 2021 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau. Thanks to Norm Grondin for the translation, transcription and edition. JP: Welcome to this new episode of The Symbolic Life...
Religious Symbolism and the Modern City, Part Two: Capitalism and Corporations
Preamble The previous part of this article accounted for the evolution of the city in the West since the sixteenth century, a period loosely described as ‘modernity’ since it succeeds the medieval period, the Protestant Reformation, and the Renaissance. It traced the...
A Statute Forever: Reading Leviticus 16 Symbolically.
Introduction In my last article I suggested Saint Ambrose's approach to the Old Testament as a way of deepening engagement with the Scriptures. The task that remains is to apply this style of reading to specific texts. This practice will both illustrate the richness...
On the Symbolic Meaning of Domes, part five
This is the fifth and final part of a five-part article. The Plan of the Article:((I call this kind of structure a “ksiasmus.” It is related to the chiasmus, but whereas chiasmus is named after the Greek letter chi (Χ) because of its inverse parallel structure, a...
Through Adam: Creation and Return
I make use of two articles by D.C. Schindler to explain the metaphysics underlying Adam’s naming of the animals.
On the Symbolic Meaning of Domes, part four
This is the fourth part of a five-part article. The last remaining part will be published next Friday. The Plan of the Article:((I call this kind of structure a “ksiasmus.” It is related to the chiasmus, but whereas chiasmus is named after the Greek letter chi (Χ)...
The Symbolic World of Göbekli Tepe and the First Cities: An Eliadean Approach
Preamble First noted in geographical surveys in 1964, Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site situated about 15km north-east of the Turkish city of Sanlıurfa, was made famous in the 1990s by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt. From 1995 until his death in 2014, Schmidt...