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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,...

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Truth Standing on Its Head

  1. 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...

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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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Arthur Machen: Ecstasy and the Literary Imagination

Jean Delville, The Death of Orpheus, 1893. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts.

The Welsh fantasist Arthur Machen (1863-1947) argued that “ecstasy” is the constituent factor in all great literature. “If ecstasy be present, then I say the...

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A Holy Fool in the Interior Castle: Christian Folly and Spanish Mysticism in R. A. Lafferty’s Fourth Mansions

Remedios Varo, Spiral Transit, 1962 (Private Collection).

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R. A. Lafferty is not a familiar name to most readers of theology or literary studies. Best known within science-fiction circles for his eccentric plots, grotesque hum...

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