by cutsinger | Jun 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
You’re right to have realized that a serious engagement with the spiritual life entails a radical shift in one’s thinking about everything else. A commitment to Tradition, together with the initiatic affiliation it presupposes, is not something that can...
by cutsinger | Jun 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
The problem you describe is by no means uncommon, for it’s one thing to see—and to be rightly disgusted by—the pernicious consequences of reductionism and something quite different to be able to justify that disgust dialectically. You’re right...
by cutsinger | Jun 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
The first thing to point out, of course, is that I’m a mere layman, and I would not wish to mislead you by presuming to anticipate what your spiritual father may ask of you during confession itself. Different confessors have different “styles”,...
by cutsinger | Jun 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
As I always tell the prospective professors who come my way—and they’re not a few, given how much I obviously enjoy my own work in the college classroom—graduate studies in religion involve a difficult, demanding, and sometimes dangerous gamble....
by cutsinger | May 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Only now, with my academic term ended and grades submitted, have I gotten around to reading your review of A. N. Williams’s The Divine Sense: The Intellect in Patristic Theology (Yale, 2007); thank you for sending it. This does indeed seem a title I should have...
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