A Newer Jerusalem

Nathan Betz’s DFG-funded research blog.
John’s Revelation. The New Jerusalem. Patristic exegesis. Deification.

To Oxford with Jonathan Pageau

To Oxford with Jonathan Pageau

Symbolic World Summit at Pusey House, September 2026. Left to right: Dcn. Seraphim Richard Rohlin, Jonathan Pageau, Nathan Betz, Aiden Hart, Annie Crawford, Jordan Hall A very important part of my academic work is bringing my research to popular, non-academic audiences. Sometimes this is easier said than done, as it can be hard to get a megaphone big enough to reach the right people. Fact of the matter is that there are a lot of people who would be interested in my research if they only knew about it, and there are a lot of people I want to reach with it. Fortunately, I’ve had a couple very interesting opportunities recently. A couple months ago, I heard that Jonathan Pageau, the well-known icon-carver, public speaker, YouTuber, and founder of Symbolic World Press, announced he would be hosting a Symbolic World Summit in Oxford, where I lived and studied in 2016 and 2017. The announcement of this came on his Symbolic World podcast (listen here), and he mentioned that the topic of the...
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