by cutsinger | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
I returned a few days ago from traveling with a group of students during USC’s “Maymester”. As described in a post early this year, the topic of this off-campus course was Christian monasticism. The students and I spent four days in each of three...
by cutsinger | May 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m not altogether sure what you in mind. Kaula marga could mean a number of things: Kashmiri Shaivism, the Shri Vidya tradition, or one of the forms of “left-handed” Tantra. Regarding the last of these possibilities, I can certainly say that...
by cutsinger | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
What do I think is the best solution to the problem of evil? As it happens, I’ve just finished directing an honors seminar on that very topic, with readings drawn from Aeschylus’s Oresteia, Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, Shakespeare’s...
by cutsinger | Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Needless to say, the issue you raise is a controversial (and potentially volatile) one, and the position Orthodox Christians take can easily be misperceived as anti-Semitic. The problem is brought into rather stark relief by the text you cite from Hebrews 8:...
by cutsinger | Mar 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I don’t know your friend, nor her theology, and I wouldn’t wish to guess what she means in saying that your misadventure was “all in God’s plan”. Perhaps she’s a Calvinist, in which case you may be right that she’s envisioning...
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