Dense and Demanding

As I mentioned last week in my post on Socratic Teaching, I’m leading an honors seminar this fall on the perennialist school. This is the first time, I might add, that I’ve offered such a course at the undergraduate level, and I’m doing so, at the...

Socratic Teaching

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Like you, I start my fall teaching the week after next. Two courses, as usual: Christian Theology, one of my regular offerings in the Religious Studies department, and a seminar in the University’s Honors College on the...

Further Thoughts on Thomism and Such

You expressed your surprise, vis-à-vis my post on “A Thomistic Preparatio”, that Schuon would “place Thomas Aquinas at the top of his recommendation list” for Christian esotericists. You’re surprised because you’ve “yet to...