by cutsinger | Aug 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
There are of course many things an Orthodox Christian might read concerning Prayer of the Heart. What I often suggest that people read first is a little book by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), called The Power of the Name. It is a superb introduction to the subject:...
by cutsinger | Aug 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s not enough to read the results of other people’s thinking nor even books about how one might learn to think for oneself. You have to engage in the process itself, and this is not something for which there are formulas or rules. It’s a living...
by cutsinger | Jul 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
My sense is that agape and caritas have come to possess very similar, indeed all but identical, connotations. Etymologically, however, there remains a small, but perhaps significant, difference: the Latin caritas (n.) is cognate with carus (adj.), meaning “dear,...
by cutsinger | Jul 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
You’re right to suppose that Schuon’s views on the subject of abortion were consistent with the teaching of traditional Islam as to the moment of quickening—a teaching shared by Saint Thomas, unless I’m mistaken—though of course they were framed in...
by cutsinger | Jul 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Needless to say, the claims of your son’s professor—that Nicaea was merely the scene of a political power-play and that the Christianity “invented” by Constantine and his henchmen was not, and is not, the only option—are far from surprising;...
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