Tag: Beauty

The Icon We Love Most

An early post on icons – hopefully part of a short series… Years ago when I was studying in an Anglican seminary (mid-70’s), I had the beginnings of my interest in icons. I owned a couple, and read what little was available on the topic in English at that time (believe it or not there…

August 12, 2009
Transfiguration and the Bridal Chamber

There is a propensity in our modern world to break things down – to analyze. We have gained a certain mastery over many things by analyzing various components of their structure and manipulating what we find. It has become the default position of modern thought. This power of analysis, however, is weakened by its very…

August 6, 2009
Usefulness and Beauty

The recent questions about knowing God – which I have described as something that often comes to me in the “peripheral vision” of my life – seems somehow related to the perception of beauty as well. Beauty often seems to be “greater than the sum of its parts.” We see beauty not simply by looking at…

July 30, 2009
Favorite Thoughts

Any reader of this blog will very quickly notice certain ideas and words that come up repeatedly in my writings. Some of my parishioners say that I only have one sermon – so perhaps it’s also true that I only have one blog article… But I have been meditating on some of my favorite words…

January 9, 2009

Thank you so much Dee, Fr. Stephen and Michael.

Matthew, in western art the painter is always present, the person in the picture is a creature of the painter.…

Matthew, There is a style “icons” found in any number of Orthodox Church, particularly from the 19th-early 20th centuries that…

Last, I should add that when I refer to Orthodox theology, I’m not referring to ideas we entertain in our…

Matthew, I’m not sure what Father Stephen is going to say about your question of veneration of icons v.s. Renaissance…

The Icon We Love Most