Article: Dragons, Snakes and Demons: A Medieval and Biblical Bestiary for Modern Minds
In this well-cited “journal entry”, archaeological aficionado, Ted Wright, sets his sight on the idea of dragons in ages past, as compared to today. He pulls from the earliest civilizations to modern philosophy, from Tiamat to Kant and everything in between!
Having divorced the imagination from a numinous
Ted Wright
understanding of the cosmos,
thinkers since the Enlightenment
have exchanged a theologically charged universe
for a more profane, sterile one which is no longer
“charged with the grandeur of God,”
as Gerard Manley Hopkins would say.
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