I join COTEL and others for a chat on his 20k stream that ends up focusing on aesthetics and how the true, the good and the beautiful are objective categories. Remember to boost that T naturally with 50% all products at Choq.com using promo code ‘JAY50‘ Subscribe to JaysAnalysis in the Purchase Membership section to access […]
It’s been a longtime coming: Iconographer, carver and YouTuber Jonathan Pageau joins me to discuss the importance of icon writing and their meaning. For Orthodoxy, icons are not merely religious art, but windows to heaven itself. The icon presents us with the archetypal reality, without diminishing the incarnational reality that Christ, our True Protoype, revealed […]
This new documentary video at Orthodox Shahada treats the subject of how the Church is in continuity with the Old Testament law and prophets, specifically in terms of worship. It is often claimed by muslims that Christianity today is out of accord with Moses and Jesus in terms of how they worshipped the one God. […]
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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 […]
Today we answer some questions relating to the basic questions surrounding the first 7 Ecumenical Councils, what they covered, why they were convened and how to interpret their main dogmatic pronouncements. From Nicaea I to Nicaea II, this brief introduction is dealt with in greater detail in talks listed below. If you like this […]
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MichaeI Witcoff rejoins me to discuss how new book covering Orthodox poetics. The book is called Theopoetica and features poems and commentary recalling St. Ephrem the Syrian. We will also touch on aesthetics and art in general. His book is here. Subscribe to JaysAnalysis in the Purchase Membership section to access the archives of videos […]
While the vigorous and often bitter debate around depictions of “White Jesus” continues to rage, a similar, but quieter discussion is taking place within Islamic communities on the subject of overly white illustrations of key figures in the Muslim tradition, particularly the twelve imams so revered in Shiaism, an subsect of Islam that comprises approximately ten percent of the world’s Muslim population.
FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY – A SPIRITUAL MEDITATION FROM THE HOLY FATHERS ON THE DIVINE LITURGY Produced by the Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese in collaboration with St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary. Author and Producer: Reader Alexander Koranda Editor: Reader Peter S. Lukianov Narrator: John D. Sutko.
Orthodox Documentary outlining the basics of iconography and the theological basis for their place in the liturgy as windows to heaven.
