This is a talk I gave for Ralston College on the Icon of the Last Judgement, exploring Orthodox Christian imagery to understand ontology, theology, and how identity, symbolism, and fractals work in the medieval worldview.

Ralston College website: https://www.ralston.ac/ Ralston College: Rethinking the Last Judgment: Cosmic Symbolism & the Metaphor for Self-Discovery | @JonathanPageau: https://youtu.be/30nx25GjCYI?si=D0nB-5iLQkycrJlQ

Timestamps: 00:00 - Coming up 00:28 - Intro music 00:55 - Introduction 05:01 - Start of talk 06:08 - The Last Judgement 10:19 - Church architecture 13:28 - Example: Crucifixion 16:10 - Another example: Adam and Eve in Hades 17:14 - What is the Last Judgement? Sheep & Goats 23:34 - Heavenly man 24:43 - Body/church 26:47 - The ascension: face and body 28:27 - Peter and Paul 33:56 - Ideal man judges all 36:40 - The prepared throne 38:59 - Heaven above, hell below 42:38 - Gathering into the Cross 46:47 - Self-giving 49:57 - Hell and disintegration 54:30 - Q&A starts: How do we find our way from division to unity? 57:28 - Plato 59:00 - Unity and uniformity 01:00:08 - Questions about the icons 01:03:36 - Man as judge 01:04:15 - The aspects of the Left 01:04:55 - All the Saints 01:07:58 - Can the symbolic and Thomistic views be integrated? 01:09:03 - How we can translate masculinity and femininity symbolism 01:14:12 - How do you read and interpret images

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