Hidden Symbolism in Christian Architecture

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This video is an in-depth discussion of the biblical and symbolic inspiration for Christian architecture.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro music
00:26 - Introduction and Scripture
02:50 - The keystone
04:48 - The capstone and the dome
07:26 - Circle and square
10:24 - Church architecture in Rome
13:14 - Fractals
16:27 - Western structures
17:39 - Finding the dome: Pendentives
23:17 - Ezekiel's vision
28:02 - Two cherubs
29:11 - The church
30:58 - Two aspects of Christ
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@JonathanPageau 11 дней назад

Support us at www.thesymbolicworld.com for more videos like this and please like and share if you find it of value.

@MinosYes 7 дней назад

God's peace be with, you have introduced me to symbolism which almost miraculously changed my world view, I read books and understand furthermore enjoy them I'm deeply grateful to you. Even so I say there's a lot you haven't covered upon, like greek mythology which is a fountain of symbolism, I really hope you do so and help many understand 🙏🙏🙏 thank you for all your work

@cognoscola 11 дней назад

More of this please! I've been doing architecture for a decade now and I'm definitely going to start designing buildings with this in mind.

@unoriginal_username1 11 дней назад

Hi Jonathan, huge fan of yours despite only relatively recently discovering your content. As an Anglican of the “high church” variety you’ve sparked an incredible interest in and respect for the Orthodox Church. God bless you and keep up the amazing content.

@gofish7388 10 дней назад

How did you discover him? This stuff is kind of niche. I'm just curious.

@unoriginal_username1 10 дней назад

@@gofish7388 I suppose I’ve always been interested in other denominations (even when I was an atheist) the differences and the unique beauty of them in some part fascinates me. I think it was ether a RU-vid short with him in or someone taking about “orthodox influencers” and once I realised he wasn’t a “the catholics are wrong on everything and here’s why” kinda guy I was interested more. At this point I think the west needs to more past a lot of minor issues when it comes to denominations and focus more on insuring that Christianity still has a solid foothold in Europe. I always said , better an orthodox Jerusalem then a Jewish one, better a catholic Spain then a Muslim one. What about yourself?

@eco7221 10 дней назад

For me it's JBP @@gofish7388

@KarlAlbertNg 11 дней назад

I had the privilege to see a version of this talk at St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, California. It was great!

@educationalporpoises9592 8 дней назад

same!

@kadams4458 4 дня назад

@@educationalporpoises9592 your username and profile photo were the first things I chuckled at today. It's all going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Thanks for that, and have a great day! 😊

@carltwelve2170 5 дней назад

In arch school, we studied the evolution of the church building and the use of the arch. At school it was described as the tool by which they could open up the expanse of the building. The stone ceiling seemed to float. It was shock and awe. With the gothic floor plan, one entered on the East with the sun. As one walked towards the alter in west, the stone columns marked time, until you reach the apse, where Christ welcomes you. But to get to Him, there above you in heaven, you must pass the alter symbolizing death.

@simonahrendt9069 10 дней назад

You keep surprising me with more and more examples of beautiful symbolism. I will look at arches differently now.

@trose88 6 дней назад

Jonathan is a gift to us all! The things you say ring true to a deep part of me.

@siegfried.7649 11 дней назад

This is fascinating. Please, Johnathan, keep making more videos like this one! It's perhaps among your vest kind of work. God bless

@animula6908 9 дней назад

I love the acknowledgement of the need to maintain and accept tension. A lot of religious conflict in history results when people try to oversimplify worship and arrive at a conclusion by condemning things once and for all just to give us peace of mind from false dichotomies that we shouldn’t really be wanting to embrace.

@joemad 11 дней назад

great vid...next please do one about the modern era's preferred soviet brutalist architecture

@animula6908 9 дней назад

I bet we will be able to infer everything about it independently by the time he ends this video.

@cidklutch 11 дней назад

Woo! JP talking about architecture! Can't wait.

@ognjenkabogdan8787 8 дней назад

thank you for your wonderful insights ... 💙 many greetings from Belgrade ... and the church is the temple of Saint Sava!

@eastudio-K 11 дней назад

Ah nice will listen to this, as an architect Ive been wondering on why architecture is important if it is at all.

@SusanWebster-pz2vg 10 дней назад

Thank you, for all you have stepped forward to do in these times. I so value and appreciate your thoughtful presentation of such sacred, beautiful work 🙏

@stevennewberg9993 4 дня назад

Brilliant! A supreme “symbolism happens“ moment for me was recognizing that my own home church, like many large, traditional Western churches, symbolized a prone human body: rounded apse with a high altar tabernacle (the mind) and a lower center altar for HC (the heart) which we, the body, circumambulated each Sunday in coming together with Christ our Head. Since that “heart” was flanked not only by transept arms, but also two nodes- lectern and pulpit - from which the milk of God‘s word (Luke 11:27-28) was given, and since the baptismal font was prominently placed “toward the feet” it was obviously a female body- the bride- represented in the vertical plane as coming together with Christ in the Divine Service. Come to think of it, the high arch which set off the chancel and apse from the nave had a decorative capstone/keystone marked with the chi-rho. I imbibed all that as a kid and it’s still with me today. So cool!

@matthewgillam149 9 дней назад

Along with the cornerstone, the equal wedge shaped tiles that build the rest of the archway are called "voussoirs". I learnt how to do this when doing my tiling trade. I dont get to use this skill much, which is a shame.

@CrossTimbersSon 10 дней назад

It’s unfortunate that much of the church has forgotten this rich architectural wisdom, while government buildings along with Islam took it up.

@askellabsalon7737 2 дня назад

Love to see you on this topic, MORE PLEASE

@joekershner117 11 дней назад

Thank you for this video Jonathan. And for the skateboarding one. There's been multiple eye opening moments in your videos for me and I actually feel like I'm learning something interesting that I can pay attention to for a longer time

@josephcanning9866 11 дней назад

I can't wait 🎉

@AmyMaris 10 дней назад

This sparks a firestorm of thoughts. Thank you Jonathon!

@Tullerman 10 дней назад

Man, this is beautiful! ✝️

@MalarkusD 11 дней назад

Enriching content packed full of insight. This is very helpful to me and I'm sure to others.

@gabrielaalcaide7290 10 дней назад

This is so wonderful. Thank you ❤

@nathanfilbert2649 11 дней назад

Wonderful. Thank you!

@jamesryan1258 11 дней назад

This really and truly spoke to me. Thank you 🙏🏼

@robertrichard2908 4 дня назад

Great stuff!

@BobbyFischerman-ve6ct 8 дней назад

Sam Hyde brought me here…. Great content Jonathan - Hail Christ our Lord and Saviour.

@QuixEnd 11 дней назад

Just bought a book about all this! Definitely worth getting a good book with photos of all this stuff

@alandiaz5184 11 дней назад

May I ask the title?

@jrgames29 10 дней назад

@@alandiaz5184 i find it's really hard to find books which explain this sort of stuff the way JP does. They tend to get stuck on the technical or are too basic. Id love to know some suggestions.

@sonofphilip8229 11 дней назад

Sam Hyde watches Jonathan Pageau

@nathankurtz5960 11 дней назад

Yo what. Is there a clip of him mentioning Pageau?

@adutchman1403 10 дней назад

Tell us where to find the clip

@maximosmagyar9653 10 дней назад

Why do you say?

@sonofphilip8229 10 дней назад

@@maximosmagyar9653 Just thought fans would find it an interesting intersection.

@maximosmagyar9653 10 дней назад

@@sonofphilip8229 What I mean is why do you think or know that's true?

@benmanny9142 11 дней назад

Most interesting , im a fan coming from the LOS pipeline...

@churchseeds 3 дня назад

Just an interesting thought in my imagination. Nazareth, where Jesus was a carpenter, had a stone quarry. Jesus likely worked at the quarry building scaffolding or even cutting stones. So he would have experienced stones being cut for arches and capstone. So his imagery of a stone that was "rejected" only for the builders to come back for it as the capstone might have been something he saw first hand.

@notloki3377 11 дней назад

very interesting stuff. a lot of parallels to kaballah and khemetic thought, as expressed partially through theosophy as well as surviving bronze and iron age manuscripts. nice to see a christian who has an appreciation for sacred form and even fractals. a rare gift.

@animula6908 9 дней назад

Probably because they are all referencing the same historical worldview.

@notloki3377 9 дней назад

@@animula6908 more or less, the wisdom's in the details.

@stephenbrannen 10 дней назад

@JonathanPageau I'd love for you to do some analysis of Gothic architecture in the terms of its own builders and defenders as one of the most distinctly and uniquely of Christian styles of architecture: namely, in the pointing upward to heaven, the Latin cruciform structure (reflecting the human shape), the considerations of light and moving of iconography to windows, etc. The Christian adopting and elevating of pagan Roman forms of the square and circle is obviously a beautiful and worthy subject of contemplation, but the development of architectural theology in the thoroughly and exclusively Christian imagination to the Gothic forms surely must deserve some reflection as well?

@gaillee5747 11 дней назад

The fractal pattern is time as well. It's Ezekiel wheel. A wheel within a wheel

@thomasadongo3017 11 дней назад

can you talk abut memory eucharist

@NANINIsART 9 дней назад

The fractal nature of The Temple: Christ's Body = The Temple Christ's Body = Christ (Head) + The Church (His Body) The Church = The Temple (The Body of Christ) Which brings us back to square one... Christ's Body = The Temple Christ's Body = Christ (Head) + The Church (His Body) The Church = The Temple (The Body of Christ)

@HNagel 11 дней назад

What is that painting called at 33:25?

@OrthodoxInquirer 11 дней назад

The Transfiguration

@artlopes9463 5 дней назад

You are a very intelligent man. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us simpletons. 😂

@lhetzel101 6 дней назад

*also old battery stations for free energy*

@gramofancapisce2208 11 дней назад

What writings or books have you stumbled across that talk about the history of architecture and Christianity? Are there any?

@paulbracken6216 11 дней назад

I knew a priest ( Catholic) who majored in architecture in seminary. He taught me about the theology behind and within architecture. It is a big subject. I am a stonemason and my work has been greatly influenced by him. It also goes into all architecture( not only churches)

@paulbracken6216 11 дней назад

You have the inner world (soul ) and the outer world. They are intertwined. We are affected on all levels of our soul by the environments we create, and live in. Good architecture is a vital part of of healthy living for the body soul and spiritual dimensions within us.

@christianebers 9 дней назад

❤

@gaillee5747 11 дней назад

It's the four tribe of Israel symbols on flags Judah, Reuban, Ephraim, and Dan The tribes order in desert Numbers 2. They moved in that order. East. South. West North. Time in clockwise order.

@AmyMaris 10 дней назад

Wow.

@AmyMaris 10 дней назад

Has anyone seen this? Seems related: 19:08 agh!! Can’t link a photo.

@Shotzeethegamer 11 дней назад

The Stone from Heaven, placed from the top.

@brendansmith8167 11 дней назад

What church is in the thumbnail?

@jiqian 10 дней назад

It's the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

@Labarum1121 11 дней назад

Greetings from Georgia ( Caucasian Region ) !

@goldfishi5776 11 дней назад

We are indeed the earthen temple. Dust to man to dust

@MediaevalGuitar 6 дней назад

We have Christ and the Holy Spirit's intercession. We have the intercession of fellow Christians on earth. Fractally speaking, we need also the intercession of the saints in heaven; otherwise there is a big gap between heaven and earth. Accordingly, Orthodox church architecture exhibits the saints in an elevated position between the floor and the dome.