by cutsinger | May 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
There is of course for every spiritual traveler, inevitably, a certain cycle of alternation between times of dryness and times of consolation. The sense of “distance” from God which you mention is not unexpected and you need not be concerned about it; my...
by cutsinger | May 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
Regarding vanity, I suppose if you were having dinner with Saint John Maximovitch he would make a point of ladling his soup over his mustache and beard and then “making himself up” to mock you. Not being a fool—or not at least in that sense!—I...
by cutsinger | May 16, 2007 | Uncategorized
What you are referring to, I believe, is a piece of mine that actually appeared last year as a letter to the editor in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle rather butchered it, but I have placed it below in full: Richard Monastersky informs us in his...
by cutsinger | May 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
All I can say “in a nutshell” is that the phenomenology of religion means different things to different scholars; it would be hard for me to predict how this particular professor might interpret it or how he would use phenomenological methods. Basically,...
by cutsinger | May 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
The author lists a number of other texts in the Bible where “until” cannot possibly be taken to mean that, after the event marked by the moment “until”, things suddenly changed. If in saying that Joseph did not “know Mary [sexually] until...
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