by cutsinger | Feb 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
You ask what Schuon may have meant (in Logic and Transcendence) when he distinguished between “the traditional theory of emanation” and “the emanationist heresy, which has nothing metaphysical about it and which reduces the Principle to the level of...
by cutsinger | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m glad you’ve been reading Owen Barfield’s Worlds Apart; it’s a wonderful book. You’re rather worried, however, about Barfield’s “anthroposophical leanings”—and rightly so, I might add!—and you therefore...
by cutsinger | Jan 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
This coming Maymester I’m once again planning to offer a short (three-week) course, 13-31 May 2013. “Monastic Spirit: A Journey to the Heart of Ancient Christianity” expands on my previous USC Maymester explorations of the “Mysteries of the...
by cutsinger | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
You ask whether there is anything in the Christian tradition that justifies going beyond the idea that the Jews would be forgiven for crucifying Jesus (“for they know not what they do”) and saying that they would actually be rewarded by God for their...
by cutsinger | Dec 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to know you’re translating Schuon’s books into German. It’s rather ironic that so few of his writings have appeared to date in his own mother tongue. He once observed that French is more suited to metaphysics and German to poetry,...
by cutsinger | Nov 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Do I think there’s an “unbridgeable chasm” between what St Thomas and the Catholic West have to say about God as pure Esse (“being”) and what St Dionysius and the Orthodox East teach with regard to the Divine as a Hyperousia Thearchia...
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