by cutsinger | Nov 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
You ask for my opinion concerning the following passage from the Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan: “There is material presence, in which no knowing is involved, and such is the presence of the statue in the courtyard. There is intentional...
by cutsinger | Nov 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
You write regarding your use of the Jesus Prayer: “Sometimes I think I feel warmth, and sometimes my mind is attentive and my feelings fixed on one good thing. And in the next moment, everything vaporizes.” Very few of us can expect much more than a rare...
by cutsinger | Oct 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yes, my teaching “strategies” run the spectrum. If I were to plot my approaches in the different courses I teach, they would vary from my introduction to world religions, in which I lecture for as much as an hour (in a 75-minute class) and then respond to...
by cutsinger | Oct 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Regarding a recent post of mine, you find as a Christian that a “strange inward tension” results when you try to adopt a “specifically Hindu term” like Witness, and you worry that it’s “somehow wrong for a Christian to accept...
by cutsinger | Sep 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew 11:12). How, you ask, can one hope to attain to the Kingdom by means of violence? It seems to me the problem can be...
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