by cutsinger | Mar 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
You ask whether the following, admittedly mysterious, passage “implies a doctrine of reincarnation”: “And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John…. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger...
by cutsinger | Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
You’re right of course that there’s no Byzantine Empire. But as to whether it should, or shouldn’t, serve as a model for “a truly Christian society”—a pointer to the pattern “laid up in the heavens” (Republic,...
by cutsinger | Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Thanks for your interest in my upcoming USC Maymester course: “Mysteries of the Christian East”. Yes, the majority of the seats are already filled, but there’s still room for a few additional registrants. As you will have noted on the Master...
by cutsinger | Feb 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Here are some answers (or attempted answers) to the four questions you pose. God knows best. 1. You ask how to “fit” your daily prayers into an already tightly packed schedule. One of the Catholic saints—Francis de Sales, perhaps—said that...
by cutsinger | Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
So you’re going to be leading a discussion of the great Lossky’s Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church for an adult Sunday school group at your church, and you write to ask whether I have any suggestions? NO! What else could the answer be to a question...
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