4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Canadian Orthodox Christian iconographer and symbolic analyst who became one of Jordan Peterson's most significant intellectual interlocutors — extending and deepening Peterson's mythological framework into a rigorous Orthodox Christian theological context.
Matthieu Pageau's 2018 work arguing that the Bible uses a consistent symbolic language rooted in patterns of center and periphery, hierarchy, and sacrifice that structure all meaning-making. Proposes that Genesis, properly read symbolically, reveals a universal grammar of reality.
Canadian iconographer and symbolist (born 1978), brother of Jonathan Pageau. Author of The Language of Creation, which develops a systematic theory of biblical symbolic language. Works in the Orthodox Christian iconographic tradition and applies its principles to biblical hermeneutics.
Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, mathematician, and polymath. Called the 'Russian Leonardo,' he unified theology, mathematics, art theory, and philosophy in a vision of concrete metaphysics. Executed by Stalin's regime in 1937.