Logomorphism

The Encyclopedia Barfieldiana helpfully defines logomorphism as:
Simply put, logomorphism is the fallacious habit “at present extraordinarily widespread, being indeed taken for granted in all the most reputable circles” of “projecting post-logical thoughts back into a pre-logical age” (PD 90), of surreptitiously substituting our own phenomena for those which [our predecessors] were in fact dealing with” [...]

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Tweaking Barfield and Evolution

In Romanticism Comes of Age, Barfield explains his twist on the theory of evolution:

If you want to represent the process of evolution diagrammatically, you must think, not as the evolutionary humanists do, of a straight line sloping on and on and on and up and up and up, but rather of a curve like a [...]

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Barfieldian Eschatology

Sadly I have to confess that I have only recently heard of Owen Barfield. Rich Bledsoe gave two lectures at last year’s Biblical Horizons Conference, and Barfield was his primary inspiration. I starting learning all sorts of new words and interesting, sometimes fantastic, concepts that, in a curious sort of way, demanded immediate [...]

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