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The Seven Ecumenical Councils and the Triumph of Orthodoxy, part 2
Yes, they form an octave, but there’s also a strictly chiastic way of looking at it
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The Seven Ecumenical Councils and the Triumph of Orthodoxy, part 1
Yes, they form an octave...
Mar 23
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The Gospel of Mark takes the sabbath super literally
An approach to the octave shape used also in Bright Week
Mar 12
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February 2024
Chiasmus as camera lens for the infinite
Thoughts on a life spent in difficulty communicating, as illustrated by some adolescent art photography
Feb 23
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Welcome to the Octateuch
To the five Books of Moses are added Joshua, Judges, and Ruth
Feb 17
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In the intermediate state of the soul after death, we’ll have no eyelids to close
A chiastic meditation on triadic transformation
Feb 10
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January 2024
The Beatitudes as octave and as Octoechos
A multivalent method for seeing the overly familiar with fresh eyes
Jan 30
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Reuniting time and eternity via the Christian week as revealed in the Octoechos
Fitting the symbolism of a five-day work week and a triadic weekend into a seven-day cycle
Jan 24
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What’s the earliest octave in the text of the Bible?
Do musical scales have anything to do with it? What about decads? And is the Apocalypse of Weeks in 1 Enoch of any relevance?
Jan 17
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The Christmas octave
A five-day forefeast preceding a three-day feast... = a Christmas octave
Jan 2
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The Christmas octave
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December 2023
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
The ancient Advent hymn’s sabbath shape
Dec 23, 2023
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The sequence of party systems in U.S. political history, part 3
Concluding the octave
Dec 21, 2023
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