Myth as Pedagogy: Herder, the Shema, and the Poietics of Covenantal Perception inside Theophanic Struggle Douglas Blake Olds 12-16 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] This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. Abstract This essay reclaims myth as historically embodied preparation for Christophany—rooted in the Shema’s call to relational accountability, propriocept...
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Yesterday’s Reformation's Day Eschaton and Today’s for All-Saints: Awakens Our Apocatastatic Jubilee Douglas Blake Olds, Rev. Dr., Ret. November 1 (All Saints Day), 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] This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. Covenantal Repair as First Imperative In the tremors of our late-modern unraveling of hand and mind, repair becomes the first role of...
τάξεις of the Sublime that Reopen Meaning After t 𝑠 Anthropological Collapse Douglas Blake Olds October 23, 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] This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. When metaphysics is stripped away , meaning collapses. Despair sets in. Nihilism opens its existential wound : The secularized human ego mistakes pleasure for meaning and co...