Past Masters
Bernard ClairvauxExploring the Catholic imagination.
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Sehnsucht Baptized: Novalis, Neoplatonism, and the Theology of Imagination in MacDonald’s Phantastes
George MacDonald’s Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858) opens with an extended epigraph from the German poet Novalis (1772-1801) that serves not just as an ornament but as a hermeneutical key to the novel, and provides deep...
The Poet as Demiurge
I. Plato’s cosmology, as described in the Timaeus, includes a rational quasi-divine entity, a cosmic craftsman (dēmiourgos) who orders creation according to intelligible paradigms called Forms. The Demiurge gazes upon these unchanging pre-e...
Descent and Ascent as Theological Grammar
I wish to argue here that the recurring pattern of descent and ascent, expressed mythically as katabasis and anabasis, and metaphysically in Neoplatonism as proodos and epistrophe, is not only a formal analogy to Christian theology. Rather,...
Truth Standing on Its Head
- Paradox: Problem or Principle?
Discussing G. K. Chesterton’s use of paradox immediately risks reducing his complex thought to mere stylistic flair, treating paradox as clever wordplay detached from any serious pursuit of truth. Chest...
Ecstasy, a Sacramental Cosmos, and the Theurgic Mind
If ecstasy names a technique of imaginative displacement brought about through language, a further question immediately arises: what kind of world must be presupposed for such displacement to be possible at all? Ecstatic literature not only...
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