Paradise Imagined
Join us from September 24–26, 2026 for a summit, hosted by Symbolic World in St Giles’, Oxford, United Kingdom at Pusey House.
Tickets now available!
Only 150 tickets will be sold for this exclusive event
What do we mean when we speak of Paradise?
Is it a garden at the beginning of the world, a kingdom at the end of history, a hidden country glimpsed in story and vision, or a place we are learning to remember? Across Scripture, folklore, liturgy, and the symbolic imagination, Paradise appears again and again as the lost center: the place of communion, beauty, order, and encounter with God. Yet it is never merely behind us. It calls from ahead as well.
Speakers
This summit will invite participants to think beyond modern categories of “myth” and “history,” “imagination” and “reality.”
Join Us in Imagining Paradise
The Symbolic World Summit at Oxford: Paradise Imagined will gather speakers from across theology, storytelling, biblical interpretation, and symbolic thought to explore the many ways Paradise has been seen, lost, guarded, distorted, and sought. Together we will consider Eden and the Otherworld, the expulsion of the evil one and the return to the Garden, the city as a garment of skin, and the strange overlap between biblical cosmology and the deep mythic patterns of folk tradition.
Limited Tickets Available!
General Admission
Only 150 general admission tickets will be issued for this exclusive event.
Admission includes:
- Access to all lectures, tellings and panels
- Evening programming
- Morning programming
- Summit t-shirt
- Summit pin
- Event lanyard and badge
- Coffee and tea during event
$500 USD
Supra
Only 40 tickets will be issued for this exclusive add-on.
This will be a a guided feast of food, wine, and storytelling that connects attendees.
This Supra will be hosted at St Cross Hall on the Oxford Campus.
John Heers will be our Tamada and lead us through an evening with the speakers.
$250 USD
Pusey House, Oxford
Hosted in Oxford, a city layered with scholarship, pilgrimage, memory, and Christian imagination, Paradise Imagined will be a gathering for those who want to recover the symbolic vision of the world and ask what it means to seek Paradise now.
Located 90 minutes from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) via the Oxford Tube bus service.
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