by cutsinger | Aug 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
As a Buddhist you’re puzzled, you say, by the Orthodox doctrine of theosis. How can something that was formerly created now become increatus et increabile? Either it was so from the beginning, or it was not. And how can a man become omniscient, omnipresent, and...
by cutsinger | Aug 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’m still hoping to add a new page to my weblog describing a few of the highlights of our trip to Mount Athos. God willing, that will happen in the next few weeks. In the meantime, one quick anecdote that may interest and amuse you. As coincidence or Providence...
by cutsinger | Aug 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
“When we realize our faults, we must never ask, ‘What should I do?’ because knowledge is itself the cure.” I agree that this citation from Schuon is pertinent to your predicament. What he has in mind, by the way, is a passage from the Bhagavad...
by cutsinger | Aug 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Regarding your challenge to the priest you’ve been talking to that he “show how the Incarnation and Trinity are as self-evident as suffering”, I wonder whether this is a fair demand or whether on the contrary it’s really an apples and oranges...
by cutsinger | Aug 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
You are—you say—more at home in “doing” than in “intelligent conversation”, and you ask whether you ought to be “aiming at improving [your] speech”. I don’t think this is something you should worry about at all....
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