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Is This the Flood? Is Babel Next?

Jean-Philippe Marceau

September 23, 2025

Is This the Flood? Is Babel Next?

Becoming in the Ruins: Myth, Theosis, and Symbolic Collapse in ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’

‘Resident Evil 4’: Parasitic Body, Pharaoh, Plagues

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Bridging the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Pagan and Christian Symbolism in the Little Metropolis Church (Panagia Gorgoepikoos) in Athens, Greece

Bridging the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Pagan and Christian Symbolism in the Little Metropolis Church (Panagia Gorgoepikoos) in Athens, Greece

The Byzantine period of Greece’s history lasted from 330 AD—when St Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman empire to Byzantium in Thrace and renamed the city after himself, i.e. Constantinople—to the 29th of May, 1453 when the city fell to the Ottoman Turks.

November 7, 2023

The Meaning of Plants

The Meaning of Plants

Plants, and trees in particular, easily fall into the category of the most common symbolic images in the history of human expression. Why is this so?

Kenneth Michael Florence

November 7, 2023

The Human Person as the Pattern of “Is” and “Could Be”

The Human Person as the Pattern of “Is” and “Could Be”

Plants, and trees in particular, easily fall into the category of the most common symbolic images in the history of human expression. Why is this so?

November 7, 2023

Zombies and the Eucharist (Transcript)

Zombies and the Eucharist (Transcript)

The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in April 2022 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau.

Jean-Philippe Marceau

November 7, 2023

Religious Symbolism and the Modern City, Part One: From the Reformation to Today

Religious Symbolism and the Modern City, Part One: From the Reformation to Today

Plants, and trees in particular, easily fall into the category of the most common symbolic images in the history of human expression. Why is this so?

November 7, 2023

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