by cutsinger | Mar 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
I agree, of course, that there is simply no way to make Christianity, or any other Semitic tradition, as “direct” as Vedānta: the doctrine of the Self must remain largely hidden in such a context. As Schuon notes, “The Vedantic perspective finds its...
by cutsinger | Feb 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
You ask what Schuon may have meant (in Logic and Transcendence) when he distinguished between “the traditional theory of emanation” and “the emanationist heresy, which has nothing metaphysical about it and which reduces the Principle to the level of...
by cutsinger | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m glad you’ve been reading Owen Barfield’s Worlds Apart; it’s a wonderful book. You’re rather worried, however, about Barfield’s “anthroposophical leanings”—and rightly so, I might add!—and you therefore...
by cutsinger | Jan 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
This coming Maymester I’m once again planning to offer a short (three-week) course, 13-31 May 2013. “Monastic Spirit: A Journey to the Heart of Ancient Christianity” expands on my previous USC Maymester explorations of the “Mysteries of the...
by cutsinger | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
You ask whether there is anything in the Christian tradition that justifies going beyond the idea that the Jews would be forgiven for crucifying Jesus (“for they know not what they do”) and saying that they would actually be rewarded by God for their...
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