consubstantiality

  • Decoding Dedalus: God Becomes Featherbed Mountain

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line.The line below comes from “Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 50 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the line that begins “God…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Full Fathom Five

    “I haven’t let this young man off very lightly, have I? Many writers have written about themselves. I wonder if any one of them has been as candid as I have?” – James Joyce to Frank Budgen This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and …

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  • Ep. 31 – Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality

    Let’s have fun with consubstantiality! Kelly and Dermot untangle Stephen Dedalus’ thoughts on the dual nature of God the Father and God the Son, the Nicene Creed, the difference between being made and being begotten, the death of Arius, seahorses, a shocking fact about the Star Wars cantina and an even more shocking fact about…

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  • Houses of Decay

    The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and…

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