This essay explores how Christians can cultivate a poetic sensibility to find meaning and purpose in life. By examining the effects of materialism and science on spirituality, it highlights insights from various philosophers and invites an artistic engagement with Creation, emphasizing relationality, creativity, and the transformative power of love in human experience.
The text discusses the creation narrative from a theological and philosophical perspective, linking St. Isaac’s teachings with C.S. Peirce’s concepts of chance and consciousness evolution. It emphasizes the universe’s transition from abstract potentiality to concrete reality, while highlighting the relationship between divine intention and human development, proposing a theory of Theological-Persuasive Tychism.
This essay examines Colin Wilson’s Superconsciousness as a framework for understanding the Christian concept of theosis, which involves human transformation through divine grace. It outlines seven consciousness levels, culminating in mystical consciousness, and discusses how prayer and virtuous living facilitate this spiritual ascent towards unity with God, rooted in Eastern Orthodox theology.
This essay explores Eastern Orthodox process theology, focusing on human hypostasis as an embodiment of divine likeness. It examines the interactions of active and passive hypostases across the cosmos, emphasizes human dignity through autonomy and self-governance, and integrates insights from thinkers like Hans Jonas and William James to frame human experience within divine creation.
The Beginning of Terror 