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Telosbound Essential Reading 2026 (opens the original)
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Since I definitely do NOT have another post with a massive list of great books with PDF’s attached to (almost) each one, I wanted to provide a concise list of books (excluding Scripture) that I consider essential reading for all telosbound adjacent folks in the big 26. You can find most of the patristic books on readtheoria.com.telosbound is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="s
When you don’t want to go home (opens the original)
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I’ve now seen Nolan’s Odyssey three times, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it just as many times.Nolan’s Odyssey is a deeply personalist film with a core of central messages presented through numerous characters and a complicated series of perspectives across time, as the mundane present and the “mythic” past meet in the return of Odysseus.In truth, Nolan’s “mythology” is fundamentally modern, as reflected in the third part of the film in particular. The “personalist” dimension consists of Odysseus’
Solvitur ambulando (opens the original)
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Read in light of Christ, the Psalms become a beautiful composition of prophecy and prayer, a liturgical book in the deepest sense of the word. They point directly to the life (and death) of Jesus Christ, and to the mysteries and treasures of the Church, who is the assembly and people of God (“those who do the work of God”—liturgy). Psalm 34 is all about the faithfulness of God to His people, to those who call upon His name. It is only after the servant of God calls upon the name of the Lord with
Zizek's modernism (opens the original)
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i. Between revolution and reactionThe “reactionary” critique of modernity is that it fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the human person. The “modern subject” is defined by a certain list of characteristics, as outlined in Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor. The modern subject/person is detached from its heritage, secularized, emptied of metaphysical depth and fundamentally at odds with its pre-given (human) nature—an isolated “individual” stripped of its essential content. Furthermor
In defence of theologoumenon (opens the original)
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I am concerned with the present state of Orthodox apologetics, and I am often disturbed by the way fellow Orthodox Christians engage with each other online. I’m not here to judge, and I’m certainly not innocent. I’ll begin my meditation today with a simple observation that we tend not to think about: online Orthodox apologetics is an extremely new phenomenon, and almost all of its major figures didn’t gain an audience until after 2020. As Hegel said, it is basically impossible to understand the
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