Category: Icons
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Saving the World Through Beauty
This essay of mine was originally posted on Pontifications. It is reprinted here with some slight changes. Thus the most persuasive philosophic proof of God’s existence is the one the textbooks never mention, conclusion to which can perhaps best express the whole meaning: There exists the icon of the Holy Trinity by St. Andrei Rublev;…
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Icons And Coming Home Again
A recent news story reported the return of icons to Cypress from the United States, where they had apparently surfaced after being missing for a fair number of years. The museum in whose possession they had come worked with the Church in Cypress to see them restored to their rightful place. This is not the…
Going off Mark’s musings about Judas, I suspect there are always more layers and nuances than can be transmitted through…