by cutsinger | Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
In his book on the Shaykh Al-Alawi, A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century, Martin Lings comments on one of the Shaykh’s aphorisms: “To demand increase showeth ignorance in a disciple.” According to Lings, this saying refers among other things to the...
by cutsinger | Jan 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
You asked about current and upcoming courses. Classes just started this week for me, and I’m offering two. First is an old standby I call “Faith, Doubt, and God”. Close to seventy brave souls have shown up to test my in-your-face promise to prove the...
by cutsinger | Dec 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
You’re “astonished”, you say, that Saint Thomas Aquinas should be so highly praised in Professor Oldmeadow’s book concerning the perennialist school: Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of Perennial Philosophy (soon to be republished by World...
by cutsinger | Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
You asked about the role—or perhaps better the “position”—of Christ in Christian prayer. It is common among the Fathers of the Christian East, and thus among many Orthodox authorities, to say that one should pray “in” the Holy...
by cutsinger | Nov 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
No, I’d not in fact heard of the formulation you quote from Father John Romanides: “If the Church were a factory, its product would be relics.” And no, I wasn’t thinking of things in quite so osteopathic a way when I spoke in my last post about...
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