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The Language of Creation

Summary

Book by Matthieu Pageau (2018) exploring the symbolic and hierarchical language embedded in Scripture, arguing that the Bible's structure encodes a coherent cosmological grammar rooted in patterns of center, periphery, and mediation.

Core Contribution

Systematic articulation of scriptural symbolic language as a coherent grammar; bridge between Orthodox theology and symbolic pattern-thinking accessible to a broad audience.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Scripture
  • symbolism
  • Orthodox theology
  • biblical hermeneutics
  • cosmological grammar

Historical Influences

Orthodox Church Fathers Jonathan Pageau Rene Guenon Henri de Lubac

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

The Symbolic World podcast Jonathan Pageau's essaysThe Orthodox Study Bible

Contemporaries & Peers

The Symbolic World podcast Jonathan Pageau's essaysAndrew Damick's work

Minds Influenced

symbolic theology community Jonathan Pageau's audienceOrthodox catechists

Intellectual Posterity

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