Frankly, I've paid almost no attention to the "new atheists", which is doubtless more than they deserve. The last time I taught my course "Faith, Doubt, and God", I did assign a couple of short selections by Richard Dawkins, but his "arguments" are so easy to...

Thank you for your comments concerning my post on "Changing Religions vs. Changing Churches". I agree with much of what you say, and I'm happy to concede a few points—though, as you'll see, with some important provisos. 1. I'm happy to admit first of all that...

Regarding your question about pride, while I see the distinction you make well enough, I'm not sure one should try to ignore or suppress a feeling of satisfaction at a job well done. It's one thing to prevent an innocent appreciation of a woman's beauty from turning...

"And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, He [Jesus] was hungry. And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, He came, if haply He might find anything thereon: and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And...

Regarding the question you raise concerning my post on "Changing Religions, Changing Churches", it seems there are two distinct issues at stake: (1) Is there a genuine doctrine of theosis in the Western Church? (2) If so, can one find among Western mystics a method...

I've been reading The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation by Saint Theophan the Recluse. If one is able to ignore the fact that the St Herman of Alaska edition is very poorly translated, there are a number of gems to be found. Just this morning I...

How, you ask, are we to go about seeing God in all things? My answer would be by "looking along" them. As you know, this is my recurrent formula—borrowed, of course, from C. S. Lewis ("Meditation in a Toolshed" in God in the Dock)—for what the Christian...

In attempting to answer your question about dogmas, I would begin by pointing out the obvious: namely, that every religious system, whether of the East or the West, is—as Schuon said—"an error compared to the Truth". The religions are finally no more than upāyas, that...

The practical steps you have taken in an effort to master yourself make good sense. It is inevitable, however, that the new resolve and determination with which you are attempting to deal with your sins—and which, let me emphasize, I unreservedly applaud and...

You mention the distinction in the writings of St Gregory Palamas—and other Fathers—between God's essence, His person (hypostasis), and His energies, and you propose that the essence should be treated apophatically since it is imparticipable while the...