by cutsinger | Apr 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
During the course of your daily sessions of prayer, you say, the Name of Allāh has occasionally “interposed” itself while you were repeating the Jesus Prayer, and you want to know what I think. It goes without saying, of course, that there’s nothing...
by cutsinger | Apr 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
A comment appeared a few days ago here on Anamn?sis. Written by someone operating under the alias “Thurbolt Smagg”—my first thought, I confess, was that one of the diabolical legion in C. S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters had begun reading this...
by cutsinger | Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m not surprised you had “some reservations” regarding my comments at the Common Word conference last week. You will understand, of course, that in the concluding section of the paper I was deliberately pushing past the dogmatic limits of the...
by cutsinger | Mar 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Several correspondents have inquired about the upcoming Common Word conference at the University of South Carolina, which I mentioned in my last post, “Esoteric Ecumenism”, so I thought I should provide some additional information. This is one in a series...
by cutsinger | Feb 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
I agree that esoteric ecumenism is “necessarily elitist”, though I would be quick to add that “learned” is the wrong word to describe the elite in question. After all, an esoterist need not be a Ph.D.’d scholar who has read many books....
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