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Transforming desires 2: Overcoming Addiction

5 May 2016 By Andrew

What does venerating the cross teach us about how to deal with our addictions and habitual sins?

From the beginning of this series, I’ve been talking about how seeing iconographically — seeing with the eye of the heart, the nous — changes everything. Last time, I talked about the way in which repentance is the context in which the eye of the heart can be opened enabling us to see truly — to begin to perceive… [ read more ]

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Transforming desires: Seeing iconographically

28 April 2016 By Andrew

Lust is the decaying body of love without its soul. How does seeing iconographically help to move us past lust and into love?

Last time I talked about the theological significance of marriage and finding the fulfilment of our deepest desires in union with God, emphasizing that our desires are not there to be killed but to be transformed — changed from desires that miss the mark and can never be sated into desires that… [ read more ]

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Pornography, Unfaithfulness and Ultimate Marriage

21 April 2016 By Andrew

What is the wedding garment that we need to wear at Christ’s great wedding feast, and what does it have to do with the image in iconography and the image in pornography?

We’ve been talking about pornography, and setting it into the context of what I’ve called an “iconographic” way of seeing all of God’s Creation. Last time I suggested we all ask ourselves whether we see God in his creation, or whether we objectify… [ read more ]

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