by cutsinger | May 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
You speak of the “bane of assessment”, the foolishness of supposing that knowledge is a matter of facts and skills that can be measured statistically and recorded on charts and graphs. Guénon would presumably have considered this one more...
by cutsinger | May 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
I too was newly struck by the passage you mention (Mark 8:22-26) the last time I studied it in the daily readings from the Gospel. What you call “magical” miracles—that is, miracles in which Christ, rather than simply healing someone by a word or by...
by cutsinger | May 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
We definitely have a God-given ability, and responsibility, to fight against evil; one thinks of Christ cleansing the Temple. Indeed all the traditions allow for the exercise of “holy indignation”, though at the same time they all equally caution that such...