Language and Religion

20th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday (Year II)

โ€œThus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.โ€

Matthew 20:16

What is the foundation of the concepts โ€œfirstโ€ and โ€œlastโ€?

โ€œFirstโ€ is derived from one. One is derived from two.… Read the rest

The Kingdom Beyond Four Dimensions

Feast of St. James

Matthew 20:20-28

What does the kingdom of heaven look like? Jesus never described it in precise scientific or geographical terms suited to the spatiotemporal domain, but always with suggestive images. Like the attempts of the Sphere to describe the third dimension to a two-dimensional Square in Edwin Abbottโ€™s novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, unimaginable depths are lost in translation when communicating divine realities in 4-D linguistics.… Read the rest

In the Image of the Trinity

Andrei Rublev, Icon of the Trinity (15th century) 

A Trinitarian Universe

The revelation of the Trinity bathes the whole of reality in a new light, transforming every domain of human life. What does a tri-personal universe look like?

Let us listen to St.… Read the rest