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  • What Does the One Ring Represent?

    Amerika.org - May 6th 2021 8:02am EDT

    Literature moved from warning about coming modernity, to bemoaning it, toward a fusion with science fiction where writers began visualizing a world outside of modernity. Leading this charge were the Inklings, including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. In Tolkien, much of the analysis of modernity concerns itself with a ring of power, which like technology, […]

  • Icon & Incarnation: The Reality of Symbolism – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - Apr 22nd 2021 8:55pm EDT

     Today we will do the icon stream on the philosophy and reality of symbols: type, prototype, archetype and the ultimate reference point for Orthodox philosophy.  The symbolic world of correspondences in our worldview is much more than mere analogy, similitude or metaphor: For us the symbolic is directly grounded in the logical (logoi), and […]