The Meaning Code | Deep Magic Reveals Reality: The Incarnation of the Word & Finding Christ in Stories of Harry Potter @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
The Deep Magic Reveals Reality, The Incarnation of the Word, Finding Christ in the Pages of Harry Potter
0:00 - 22:30
Jon’s life story
22:30
Quote from On the Incarnation by Athanasius
Magic Reveals Reality
28:45
Aslan and the Deep Magic
The incarnation unlocks reality to the world, a true incantation spoken into reality.’
The hinge on the door that was shut against humanity
32:00
Vervaeke’s 4 P’s, The Word, Love as initiation and response, The Way, The Truth and The Life, Goodness, Truth and Beauty - a paradigm
Worship is our telos. The wine and the bread is our participation in the body of Christ.
Christ gave us Himself to restore that which is permanent and fixed.
Beauty yields the fruit of goodness and that reveals the truth.
We begin in the shire and end in the shire.
44:00
The New Testament interprets the Old Testament
52:00
Michael Levin and cancer as a loss of community
1:00:30
Can you lose your salvation is the wrong question
Why do people walk away? Personalism doesn’t work
1:18:10
“I’m not an apologist for Harry Potter.”
The Exodus story is not just my story
The story of Harry Potter is one in which the victim becomes the heroic force for good.
Evil inspires fear which leads to either silence or propaganda (explanatory tyrannical structure)
Goodness finds its expression in family, friendship and community.
Voldemoort doesn’t experience community.
Middle Earth has a softer magic.
Evil is the using of magic to corrupt nature, to deny reality, to use it as a tool for one’s own purposes.
The Elves in Tolkien create beauty and reveal reality.
“This house believes…” is the narrowing of our language into propositions.
The deconstructed develop their own communities in which they can all share the same story, the same language, the same propositions. Innovation, creativity, diversity, the beauty of individuality are all extinguished when we fall into the trap of an ideology which is an incomplete version of truth.
Book recommendations:
What the Bible is All About by Henrietta Mears
Reading Backwards by Richard Hayes
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
That Hideous Strength by C S Lewis
The Great Divorce by C S Lewis
On the Incarnation by Athanasius w/ foreword by C S Lewis
Video Clip from Curt Jaimungal's interview with Michael Levin
youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TNfysTazc&t=1807s
The Deep Magic Reveals Reality, The Incarnation of the Word, Finding Christ in the Pages of Harry Potter
0:00 - 22:30
Jon’s life story
22:30
Quote from On the Incarnation by Athanasius
Magic Reveals Reality
28:45
Aslan and the Deep Magic
The incarnation unlocks reality to the world, a true incantation spoken into reality.’
The hinge on the door that was shut against humanity
32:00
Vervaeke’s 4 P’s, The Word, Love as initiation and response, The Way, The Truth and The Life, Goodness, Truth and Beauty - a paradigm
Worship is our telos. The wine and the bread is our participation in the body of Christ.
Christ gave us Himself to restore that which is permanent and fixed.
Beauty yields the fruit of goodness and that reveals the truth.
We begin in the shire and end in the shire.
44:00
The New Testament interprets the Old Testament
52:00
Michael Levin and cancer as a loss of community
1:00:30
Can you lose your salvation is the wrong question
Why do people walk away? Personalism doesn’t work
1:18:10
“I’m not an apologist for Harry Potter.”
The Exodus story is not just my story
The story of Harry Potter is one in which the victim becomes the heroic force for good.
Evil inspires fear which leads to either silence or propaganda (explanatory tyrannical structure)
Goodness finds its expression in family, friendship and community.
Voldemoort doesn’t experience community.
Middle Earth has a softer magic.
Evil is the using of magic to corrupt nature, to deny reality, to use it as a tool for one’s own purposes.
The Elves in Tolkien create beauty and reveal reality.
“This house believes…” is the narrowing of our language into propositions.
The deconstructed develop their own communities in which they can all share the same story, the same language, the same propositions. Innovation, creativity, diversity, the beauty of individuality are all extinguished when we fall into the trap of an ideology which is an incomplete version of truth.
Book recommendations:
What the Bible is All About by Henrietta Mears
Reading Backwards by Richard Hayes
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
That Hideous Strength by C S Lewis
The Great Divorce by C S Lewis
On the Incarnation by Athanasius w/ foreword by C S Lewis
Video Clip from Curt Jaimungal's interview with Michael Levin
youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TNfysTazc&t=1807s
