the iconoclast's descending

  Thanksgiving in the Ebb Time of Antichrist: Atonement, the Empty Throne, and the Reparative Leading by the Meek toward the New Advent   Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds, Ret. November 21, 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]   “The present world, a world without consecrated authority, seems caught between two impossibilities: the impossibility of the past, and the impossibility of the future.” —Chateaubriand   Abstract This prophetic sermon in its classical sense attempts not comfort but clarity; not reconciliation but rupture. It is not doctrinaire but Chris...

    The Ladder Tearing:  A Christopoietic Rejection of Ascent without Neighbor Bearing...and of DB Hart's Platonic-Inf(l)ected Teaching Douglas Blake Olds 17 November 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] T here is a certain kind of metaphysician—learned, serenely confident, mistaking the florid for the elegant—who peers at the world’s formal splendor and mistakes its shimmering surfaces for truth. He believes the universe climbs a ladder: physics to psyche, psyche to nous (or v.v. when what is “presupposed” slips its rung), nous to the One. He names this ascent “order,” and...