by cutsinger | Jan 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
How should you go about determining whether this group you’ve been looking into, the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America, has valid sacraments? Is it, you ask, primarily a matter of lineage? There are doubtless other factors to consider, but this is certainly a...
by cutsinger | Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
No, I wouldn’t change, and here’s why: 1. Every sacred formula, Christian or Muslim or otherwise, can begin to seem hollow or empty of meaning in the spiritual work; times of dryness are to be expected. 2. The Name ALLAH is of course, as you say, a...
by cutsinger | Jan 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Tolkien was certainly a “traditionalist”, if by that term we mean a defender of things primordial, and therefore timeless, and hence a critic of the modern world—its philosophy, art, and politics. This is implicit in The Silmarillion and The Lord of...
by cutsinger | Jan 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Not having read his Hermeneutics of the Subject, I was unaware of the way in which Foucault uses the terms metanoia and epistroph?. I assume he must be piggy-backing on Pierre Hadot’s excellent work (see my posts for 12 September and 15 September 2007)....
by cutsinger | Jan 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have a few inchoate ideas, but rather than attempting any sort of peremptory answer I’m going to put your query to the other readers of Anamnēsis. Perhaps an interesting observation or two will emerge, and then we can all compare notes. To be sure, it’s...
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