St. Justin Martyr

Symbols and Symbolism

I was recently asked to reflect on the notion of symbol against the broader horizon of semiotics. This brought me to contrast the image (left) with the world of symbols

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On Learning Languages

As a nine-year-old boy growing up in Kansas, I was once summoned – together with all the neighborhood urchins – to hasten to my best friend’s house to be witness

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The Two Antipodes of Transcendence

Many attempts have been offered to defend the theory that only physical reality is real (so-called ‘naturalism’ or ‘materialism’). Although embarrassingly feeble in argument and often unabashedly ideological in inspiration,

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The Long Bony Finger

The prophet and the philosopher are both pointers. Prophets point at, philosophers point out. But both point. By doing so, they endeavor to carry to consummation that spontaneous act of

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Two Tears

              Our emotional lives seem simple – we cry, we laugh. Children can do it. Thus, we presume that matters of sophistication, high discernment

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Protology and Eschatology in Miniature

(Portuguese original here: Protologia e escatologia em miniatura) Many today, even those otherwise sympathetic to Christianity, find the Bible simply unbelievable. Foremost among the reasons are that its beginning seems so

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Apocalypse Recordings in New Home

  My 1990 recorded meditations on the Apocalypse are no longer in separate posts, but rather brought together under a new menu (above, at the right): “Eschatology.”  A duplication of

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