by cutsinger | Sep 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Teaching is learning, not simply in the sense that the teacher always learns the most about the subject—which, of course, is certainly true—but in the sense that we teachers are all the time learning from experience what to do and what not to do. There are...
by cutsinger | Sep 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
“Getting ourselves happy with God”—or, to make the same point in mantrayanic terms, “taking delight in the Name”—is certainly an important key; as Schuon says in an unpublished Text to which I called your attention some time ago,...
by cutsinger | Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
by cutsinger | Aug 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
by cutsinger | Aug 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
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