Not surprisingly, my post on "Enhypostatic Humanity" (17 April) has fomented more than one response. Sister N., you say, wants to know how "my" position differs from the Apollinarian heresy, which denied that Christ had a rational soul, picturing Him instead as God in...

On the question of Christianity and esoterism, you are right that this was the central point of division between Guénon and Schuon. The former claimed that the Christian sacraments, originally instituted by Christ as fully initiatic rites, had been "lowered" to...

You asked about my teaching, and I mentioned in answering how much I continue to love every aspect of our profession; you were a bit surprised, I think, when I said that this even includes grading papers! I thought you might like to see the little Breviary I have used...

It would be more accurate to say, not that Christ is the incarnation of the Second Person, but that Christ is the Second Person incarnate; indeed Christ is the Christian Name for the Second Person as such, whether incarnate or not—the Name, in other words, for...

Thank you for your note concerning the fifth example of an error regarding case that I give on the first page of my Breviary of English Usage. I so much enjoy discussions of the language; so few people, including academics, seem to care anymore. It is no doubt a risky...

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 counsel is...

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 shall keep...

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...

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, it is an...

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 she had brought forth her...