Otherworldly Academia

Only now, with my academic term ended and grades submitted, have I gotten around to reading your review of A. N. Williams’s The Divine Sense: The Intellect in Patristic Theology (Yale, 2007); thank you for sending it. This does indeed seem a title I should have...

Error Carried into Action

As a follow-up to my last post “On the Position of Sin” (17 May 2008), I recommend you give careful thought to the follow passage from Schuon: “Gnosis objectifies sin—error carried into action—by referring it back to its impersonal...

The Position of Sin

With regard to my post from February 10th of this year concerning a “Restoration to Our Natural State”, you ask how I would reply to Saint Augustine when he writes about his Manichaean period: “I still thought that it is not we who sin but some other...

The Essence of Christianity

How would I sum up the “essence of Christianity”? And how would I “position” my answer in relation to the two well-known books by that title by Ludwig Feuerbach and Adolph von Harnack? I don’t believe I’ve given ten seconds thought...

Subintroductae

Though you didn’t actually use the word, I believe you’re talking about the subintroductae or agapetae, that is, the consecrated Christian virgins who lived, and sometimes slept, with their male spiritual companions, though without sexual intercourse....