by cutsinger | Apr 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
I agree there are different spiritual “styles”—though I’m not terribly keen on that word—ranging along a spectrum between the combative and the contented, if one might put it this way. But they are by no means exclusive; everyone needs to...
by cutsinger | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
You inquired about the Patristic idea that the “garments of skins” (Gen. 3:21) God made for Adam and Eve were not merely the furry hides of some animals, but in fact physical bodies, their supralapsarian forms having been of a spiritual, or at least more...
by cutsinger | Apr 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
You ask about “independent sages”. The only person I can think of whom the perennialist authorities would regard as a genuine master, but who seems to have been unaffiliated with any revealed tradition, is Plotinus. One recalls his response to...
by cutsinger | Mar 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
No, I never supposed you were a perennialist, your curiosity and somewhat sympathetic ruminations notwithstanding, or not at least in the sense that the Schuonian uses the term. I agree, and have acknowledged the fact in my writings, that most Christians historically...
by cutsinger | Mar 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
You ask about the had?th that “marriage is half the religion”. As a Muslim, you obviously know much better than I how your tradition interprets this axiom. But since you’ve asked, I’ll risk a suggestion or two. If religion consists in our...
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