by cutsinger | Dec 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to know you’re translating Schuon’s books into German. It’s rather ironic that so few of his writings have appeared to date in his own mother tongue. He once observed that French is more suited to metaphysics and German to poetry,...
by cutsinger | Nov 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Do I think there’s an “unbridgeable chasm” between what St Thomas and the Catholic West have to say about God as pure Esse (“being”) and what St Dionysius and the Orthodox East teach with regard to the Divine as a Hyperousia Thearchia...
by cutsinger | Nov 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
What, you ask, is the difference between the “inclusivist” stance of the contemporary Roman Catholic Church and the position of the Christian perennialist? Are they basically saying the same thing? By no means. The Catholic inclusivist allows for the...
by cutsinger | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Thank you for your inquiry concerning my forthcoming Schuon anthology, Splendor of the True: A Frithjof Schuon Reader. It has been some months since I mentioned the book on this weblog, and it is probably time for a quick update. The book is gradually wending its way...
by cutsinger | Oct 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Why, you ask, if Heaven is a spiritual state and not a physical place, do we read in the Acts of the Apostles that, at His Ascension, Christ “was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as...
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