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Dr Timothy Scott

Position: Research Officer
Room: 3.08 Arts Building
Campus: Bendigo
Tel: +61 3 5444 7243
Fax: +61 3 5444 7970
Email: t.scott@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Hons (LaT), QTS (Glos), PhD (LaT)

Responsibilities

  • Executive editor of Eye of the Heart: A Journal of Traditional Wisdom
  • Greek Myth (tutor)
  • Research

Research Interests

The universal language of traditional symbolism with a particular focus on biblical symbolism; traditional metaphysics (Plato, Shankara, Ibn ‘Arabi et al); the mystical traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (the Zohar, Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-‘Arabi); sacred art; comparative religion; the traditionalist school of perennialism (Guénon, Coomaraswamy, Schuon et al).

Dissertations

  • Honours: ‘The Enigmatic Melchizedek: A dissertation on the Old Testament figure Melchizedek as portrayed in Genesis Ch.14.’
  • Doctorate: ‘Symbolism of the Ark: The universal symbolism of the receptacle of Divine Immanence.’

Publications

Books

  • Symbolism of the Ark (Louisville: Fons Vitae, forthcoming 2008)

Contributions in books

  • ‘Withdrawal, Extinction and Creation: Christ’s kenosis in light of the Judaic doctrine of tsimtsum and the Islamic doctrine of fana’ in The Essential Sophia, (ed.) S.H. Nasr & K. O’Brien (Bloomington: World Wisdom Books, 2006, 58-77)
  • ‘The Logic of Mystery & the Necessity of Faith’ in The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity (Bloomington: World Wisdom Books, 2004, 123-145)
  • ‘The Elect and the Predestination of Knowledge’ in Esotericism and the Control of Knowledge (ed.) Dr. E. Crangle (Sydney: Sydney Studies in Religion 5, 2004, 89-100)

Articles

  • ‘The Annunciation: symbolic functions of space in Renaissance depictions of the Annunciation’ Sophia Vol.13 No.1 (Oakton: The Foundation for Traditional Studies, 2007, 55-73)
  • ‘Mercy and Charity’, Sacred Web 19 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2007)
  • ‘The Kiss of Judas: reflections on Giotto di Bondone’s Kiss of Judas (Arena Chapel, 1304-06) and Duccio di Buoninsegna’s The Betrayal of Christ (Maesta Altarpiece, 1308-11) (http://religioperennis.org/documents/Scott/kissjudas.pdf).
  • ‘The Elect and the Predestination of Knowledge’ [republished], Vincit Omnia Veritas 3.2 (2007, 50-72)
  • ‘Remarks on the cosmogonic symbolism of Edom and Eden’, Vincit Omnia Veritas 3.1 (2007, 107-120)
  • ‘One Word, many tongues’, Vincit Omnia Veritas 3.1 (2007, 15-40) [a version of this paper was originally published as ‘Concerning religious forms’, Sacred Web 8, 2001, 73-98)
  • ‘In response to Mr Larking’s, ‘Sacrifice and the Preservation of the Environment in Native American Belief’ (Sacred Web 17), Sacred Web 18 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2006)
  • ‘Remarks on the cosmogonic symbolism of the Ark of Noah and the Ark of the Covenant’, Sophia Vol.12 No.2 (Oakton: The Foundation for Traditional Studies, 2006, 99-126)
  • ‘The Container and the Contained’, Vincit Omnia Veritas 2.2 (2006, 176-187)
  • ‘Concerning number symbolism’, Sacred Web 16 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2006, 141-165)
  • ‘Weaving the symbolism of light’, Vincit Omnia Veritas 2.1 (2006, 64-74)
  • ‘A brief introduction to the “Traditional Doctrine of Art”’, Vincit Omnia Veritas 1.2 (2005, 9-14)
  • ‘Remarques sur Saint Christophe’ (tr.) Charles Amir Perret,Vincit Omnia Veritas 1.2 (2005, 75-86)
  • ‘Remarks on St. Christopher’, Vincit Omnia Veritas 1.2 (2005, 63-74)
  • ‘Coincidentia oppositorum (amended introduction) and a note on Dr. Stoddart’s use of the  “mountain-climbing” metaphor in Sacred Web 9’, Sacred Web 10 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2002, 209-214)
  • ‘On what it is to be a fool’, Sacred Web 10 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2002, 177-183)
  • ‘Notes on the mystery of the coincidentia oppositorum’, Sacred Web 9 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2002, 11-35)
  • ‘The Pierced Heart of the Virgin’, Sophia Vol.8 No.1 (Oakton: The Foundation for Traditional Studies, 2002, 123-129)
  • ‘Concerning religious forms’, Sacred Web 8 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2001, 73-98)
  • ‘Withdrawal, Extinction and Creation: Christ’s kenosis in light of the Judaic doctrine of tsimtsum and the Islamic doctrine of fana’, Sophia Vol.7 No.2 (Oakton: The Foundation for Traditional Studies, 2001, 45-64)
  • ‘Borges and the Reality of the Word’, Variaciones Borges, Journal of Philosophy, Semiotics and Literature (Denmark: The J. L. Borges Center for Studies and Documentation, University of Aarhus, 2001, 243-253)
  • ‘Preliminary Remarks on Reclaiming the Meaning of “Religion”’, Sacred Web 7 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2001, 59-66)
  • ‘Understanding “Symbol”’, Sacred Web 6 (Vancouver: Ali Lakhani, 2000, 91-106)

Biography

Timothy Scott was born in Kerang in 1969. He began university study in the Sciences before transferring to a study of the Arts. During 1990 to 1995 he pursued a career in music before returning to formal study midway through 1995. He completed a BA (Humanities) at La Trobe University, Bendigo in 1997 with majors in Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Studies in Western Traditions. In 1998 he completed his BA (Hon) thesis: ‘The Enigmatic Melchizedek: A dissertation on the Old Testament figure Melchizedek, as portrayed in Genesis Ch.14,’ which was awarded First Class Honours. Timothy married in 1999 and moved to Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2000, where he continued doctoral study through La Trobe, Bendigo. He was awarded his doctorate in 2004 for his thesis, Symbolism of the Ark: The universal symbolism of the receptacle of Divine Immanence, which is to be published by the refereed publishing house, Fons Vitae. He moved to the UK in 2003, where he gained Qualified Teacher Status from the University of Gloucestershire. He taught Religious Studies at Oxford High School. In 2006 the top ten GCSE Religious Studies students in the UK comprised no less than seven of his students. In 2007 Timothy returned to Australia for family reasons and was invited to establish and edit a new journal for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Program in Bendigo. This journal is called Eye of the Heart. Timothy has published extensively in such journals as Sacred Web (Vancouver), Sophia: Journal of Traditional Studies (Washington DC), and Vincit Omnia Veritas. His work has been translated into French and Persian. Timothy relishes different cultures and has traveled extensively: Australia, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, India, Israel, Japan, Nepal, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand and the United Kingdom. He practises the spiritual suffering of supporting the Collingwood Football Club. Timothy shares his life with his wife and two daughters.
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