<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Center for Sophiological Studies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Center for Sophiological Studies ]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/g</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:00:21 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: A New Course]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thanks to a nudge from my dear friend Shari Suter, I will be offering a Hedge School course on Pavel Florensky’s  The Pillar and Ground of the Truth  starting January 10, 2026. Florensky’s book is one of the most singular works of mystical theology/religious philosophy ever written its structure deeply influenced Valentin Tomberg’s  Meditations on the Tarot . Florensky, who is often called “the Russian Davinci,” was a Russian Orthodox priest and close friend of Sergei Bugakov. Florensky,...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-pillar-and-ground-of-the-truth-a-new-course</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6931a998d6a3f601d646a5cc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:38:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_3d7bb2521ef548a4a2bf04361f49bf84~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_550,h_299,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hedge School: A Course on William Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’]]></title><description><![CDATA[I give you the end of a golden string; Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate, Built in Jerusalem’s wall. I am...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-hedge-school-a-course-on-william-blake-s-jerusalem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6797ba2faf15f10c960057a5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:57:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_4b4469b4e502413892c746a10dcc896b~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_868,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakespeare, Magic, and Religion: An Upcoming Course]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m so happy to announce that I will be offering on online, in real-time course on Shakespeare, Magic, and Religion  starting this...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/shakespeare-magic-and-religion-an-upcoming-course</link><guid isPermaLink="false">672e33a6c5b10d5e5bc587f3</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:58:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_4dffd0571c1841e4bc39e636183b95f2~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_768,h_431,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fall Course on Sophiology]]></title><description><![CDATA[This will be pretty experiential and experimental as well as intellectually engaging. The course will incorporate readings from the great...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/a-fall-course-on-sophiology</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66c0cc2303bba7390128519a</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:14:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_f99fd83f8e104f26b3b74a3ca1060b27~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_600,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Course on Christian Romanticism]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce that I will be offering an online course on Christian Romanticism beginning Saturday, July 13, 2024 and running...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/a-course-on-christian-romanticism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66688140c62a2206e605fd8e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:55:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_cd0a67e9133e4211bb5a6c9531382fa6~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_755,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hedge School: The Rosicrucian Documents of the 17th Century (online course)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this course we will cover the source of “the Rosicrucian furor” that so gripped the intellectual and theological imagination of the...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-hedge-school-the-rosicrucian-documents-of-the-17th-century-online-course</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64d110d512d20e2212f2ac0c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:43:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_b43ddcff6dbc49e889e865686c275b77~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_623,h_481,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Druid Stares Back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello! If you are new to my work and my website (and even if you're not) please note that I have moved my blogging activities to Substack...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-druid-stares-back</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64bd70d2218030e1e22f7328</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 18:29:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_f4a0b5d9e3fb4dd984772f2afe4acaa8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_692,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chivalric Real: On Christian Masculinity]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been thinking, in the midst of this confused and confusing cultural moment, about the possibility of a Christian masculinity. I am...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-chivalric-real-on-christian-masculinity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6404f21346758598b2471f48</guid><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goethe]]></category><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><category><![CDATA[postmodernity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Divine Feminine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Gustav Jung]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 20:05:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_4ca6269ebcb4422e91bb6486cd295af1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_735,h_849,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hedge School: New Courses]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am now three weeks into my two courses on Shakespeare: one online for adults and another in-person—and in my yurt!—for homeschool kids....]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-hedge-school-new-courses</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63f50ca422ff2480bfafb679</guid><category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category><category><![CDATA[biodynamic agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sophiology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Divine Feminine]]></category><category><![CDATA[education]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:34:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_9a55b79109ad476fb743c29c1c8e49ea~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hedge School]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my book Transfiguration, a kind of manual of practical Sophiology, among other things I propose the idea that what the world needs now...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-hedge-school</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63d57f7665b9a52b566a9b21</guid><category><![CDATA[education]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:19:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_9659e5cb031b450ab7efd9b84dd3c360~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Epistle of Comfort]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 21st of February this year will mark 528 years since the martyrdom of St. Robert Southwell upon the scaffold at Tyburn upon charges...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/an-epistle-of-comfort</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63d091e52690daf3c6e2c430</guid><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christ]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 02:32:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_23aa272bca8f4e0db41bcac3e2f8b288~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_499,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ecclesial State of Exception]]></title><description><![CDATA[It started, as many things do, with an observation I dropped on social media: Hypothetical: imagine you belonged to a Church that not...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-ecclesial-state-of-exception</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63c9c37fe371e8368e485907</guid><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category><category><![CDATA[economics]]></category><category><![CDATA[alternative Christianity]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:45:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_66c5b2255b674eceb21d5e96fb19598a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_948,h_711,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seminar: Shakespeare, Religion, and Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce that I will be giving on online course—though in real time—entitled Shakespeare, Religion, and Magic. The seminar...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/seminar-shakespeare-religion-and-magic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63bf363040617aa072b2a9b7</guid><category><![CDATA[education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:33:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_ba82cc1072884b8fabe6cb3601953eb1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_733,h_417,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Barleycorn Must Die]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone familiar with this blog can probably figure out that I have a deep and abiding affection for the folk music of the British Isles....]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/john-barleycorn-must-die</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b0b820928e2b50458609bd</guid><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[pagan]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:53:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_61e1d608714a4c29856205aa4e3a76a2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_562,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirits, Poets, and Fools]]></title><description><![CDATA[In mid-November of this year I was in Washington, DC for a conference. It was really a great conference (on The Brothers Karamazov) and...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/spirits-poets-and-fools</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63ade9031c403072a6d782f3</guid><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[eschatology]]></category><category><![CDATA[social media]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:49:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_fe76469e197c478085f653aa66240170~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_600,h_339,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Bleak Midwinter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Advent is often a dark time. Of course, Michigan, where I live and where the days are brutally short and it is overcast for much of the...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/in-the-bleak-midwinter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">639f3e8a7ae9dfb152e62af5</guid><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[modernity]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:46:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_7cd312f743b84c5f88b70ac0fde287aa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the Purpose of Education?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is the purpose of education?, and, in particular, what is the purpose of a K-12 education? I know this might sound like a stupid...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/what-is-the-purpose-of-education</link><guid isPermaLink="false">638a3099a219bd32f5cd59df</guid><category><![CDATA[education]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:55:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_4e398280fee540ee81fa916389e89715~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Children of Men]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about fertility. Fertility, of course, is important to a farmer—fertility of the soil made possible through...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-children-of-men</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63792b848c20ebfe0e88a686</guid><category><![CDATA[economics]]></category><category><![CDATA[eschatology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sophiology]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 19:31:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_b27d3ed511af47f7987082968a18209c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_736,h_983,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Invisible Country]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about thinking I saw the Great Pan in the woods just beyond our garden here at the farm. But I didn’t explain. Now I...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/the-invisible-country</link><guid isPermaLink="false">635ab3b001f3246fa500e3dc</guid><category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category><category><![CDATA[pagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sophiology]]></category><category><![CDATA[alternative Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:54:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_98ad68fc4e87471a88dacbda16f1b2fa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_719,h_719,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrology and the Election]]></title><description><![CDATA[Things are about to get weird. I know what you’re thinking: things are already weird, Michael. But it’s about to get even weirder with...]]></description><link>https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com/post/astrology-and-the-election</link><guid isPermaLink="false">635170793b9376d87e1ba35f</guid><category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category><category><![CDATA[eschatology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valentin Tomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christian hermeticism]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:13:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb757b_2f8bfe1abf51488695bb0a6772bb9946~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_606,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Martin</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>