An Inconvenient Horizon: Apocalypse Versus the Cult of an Endless Tomorrow

In an age of techno-nationalist optimism, apocalypse is heresy. But only our eschatological horizon can reveal what is ultimately illusory.

Dusty Spectacles; or, These Things Too

Ash Wednesday, 2025 “All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!”—Psalm 118:10. It is not that the old school contrarian commentators require remarkable foresight to call the experiment in exceptionalism on its cruel game ahead of time—it is after hours, and

Parish the Thought

Upon arrival, I joined the parishioners in the confession line. I partook of the custom of bowing to my co-penitents just prior to approaching the confessor, which I am told is particular to Russian tradition. This soborny gesture attuned me to the sacrifice to come qua reparation of a shattered

Mircea Eliade and Primordial Eucharist

Catholic and Orthodox Christians participate in Mircea Eliade's "eternal return" on the occasion of every eucharistic celebration.

An Introduction to Indo-Tibetan Alchemy

In Indo-Tibetan alchemy, we have a single fundamental creative process and its associated energies which can be realised or accessed in a variety of ways by humans who acquire the requisite skills.

Doubting Disciples and "Proof of Death"

Thomas' stipulations are as much proof that Jesus had, in fact, died as they were proof of his resurrection.

A Heartfelt Rejoinder to Eugenia Constantinou: Discovering the Orthodox Phronema in Universalism (Part Three)

Universalism is rooted in the Scriptures and the Fathers, and no authoritative statements in Tradition condemn the belief.

A Heartfelt Rejoinder to Eugenia Constantinou: Discovering the Orthodox Phronema in Universalism (Part Two)

Universal salvation emerges from deep theological and historical roots, challenging the long-held consensus with a vision of hope grounded in the earliest teachings of Christ and the Church Fathers.

A Gilded Manger is No Longer Christ's

Persecution and poverty of spirit do not run counter to the spirit of Christmas. In fact, such conditions are at the heart of incarnation itself.

A Heartfelt Rejoinder to Eugenia Constantinou: Discovering the Orthodox Phronema in Universalism

Tradition differs from an apostolic deposit, as the Nicene Trinity isn't explicitly taught in the New Testament and reflects varied early Christologies.

On the Uses and Abuses of "Realized Eschatology"

Insofar as we persist in using the word eschatology, it cannot by definition, for us here and now, ever be fully "realized."

John Betz on Eternity's Marian Bearer

In a Christian theology of time, according to John Betz, time has more than just analogical value vis-à-vis eternity. It is, rather, eternity's "Marian bearer."

Sketching a Christo-Centric Perennialism: A Speculative Reading of Some Scriptures

The Perennial Philosophy, Sophia Perennis, is a school of thought within the field of Comparative Religion which aims to understand the plurality of religions as stemming from a singular Source. In the West we call this Beginning Point, God. Perennial Philosophy is also described as: "[an] underlying basic shared

Nahmanides

Fathers, Sages and the Book of Creation: Reading Genesis with Nahmanides

Nahmanides had success salvaging certain pre-Maimonidean currents of Jewish exegesis while seeking to set them on a new comparatively more systematic basis.

alchemy

Alchemy, Archaic, and Industrial: A Spirituality of Metallurgy

Alchemy is an industrial spirituality. It embraces Nature as the materia of spiritual transformation and the metals as ripe for transformation.

David Bentley Hart

All Longing Leads Us Back to God

The essential structure of all conscious mental agency is a relation to God as mind's only proper end, says David Bentley Hart.

Saint Porphyrios

Book Review: Spiritual Eldership, Confession and Charisms in Wounded by Love

It is as though the flame of divine eros burning brightly within Dimas made Porphyrios's own heart and soul ignite.

Philokalia

The Heart's Reasons: Philokalic Revival from Athos to the Anglosphere

From a fall into neglect even among the monks of Mt. Athos, the texts of the Philokalia have enjoyed a remarkable success in the modern era.

Henry Corbin

Personhood and Individuation in the Philosophical Anthropology of Henry Corbin

For Corbin, the Person is the first and final reality. This is not idealism, nor realism, nor materialism, and certainly not historicism, but rather 'personalism.'

children

Children of the Eschaton

If the disciples are to expect some kind of biological or spiritual progeny, then whence apocalypse?

Rumi

A note on Rumi's cosmology

Rumi's approach to metaphysics is fundamentally essential. He prescinds from dry and technical phrases, and penetrates into the heart of his subject in the simplest manner.

time

Profane Duration and Sacred Time

Religious man lives in two kinds of time, of which the more important, sacred time, appears under the paradoxical aspect of a circular time – a sort of eternal mythical present periodically reintegrated by means of rites.

Mary

Toward a Hegelian Mariology: The Marian Concept

Mary's status as the Mother of All is neither a metaphor nor a figure of speech nor merely granting an obvious occurrence of Biblical typology.

Jesus

Deity and Dismemberment: Dionysus' Death and Christ's Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

Christ's act of the feeding of the multitude is the sole miracle referenced in all four canonical gospels. The Apostle John calls the phenomenon a sēmeion—a "sign"— indicating to his reader the parabolic, symbolic nature of this particular scripture. Relying primarily on Olympiodorus’ allegorization of