by cutsinger | Nov 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
What, you ask, is the difference between the “inclusivist” stance of the contemporary Roman Catholic Church and the position of the Christian perennialist? Are they basically saying the same thing? By no means. The Catholic inclusivist allows for the...
by cutsinger | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Thank you for your inquiry concerning my forthcoming Schuon anthology, Splendor of the True: A Frithjof Schuon Reader. It has been some months since I mentioned the book on this weblog, and it is probably time for a quick update. The book is gradually wending its way...
by cutsinger | Oct 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Why, you ask, if Heaven is a spiritual state and not a physical place, do we read in the Acts of the Apostles that, at His Ascension, Christ “was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as...
by cutsinger | Sep 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Teaching is learning, not simply in the sense that the teacher always learns the most about the subject—which, of course, is certainly true—but in the sense that we teachers are all the time learning from experience what to do and what not to do. There are...
by cutsinger | Sep 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
“Getting ourselves happy with God”—or, to make the same point in mantrayanic terms, “taking delight in the Name”—is certainly an important key; as Schuon says in an unpublished Text to which I called your attention some time ago,...
by cutsinger | Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned last week in my post on Socratic Teaching, I’m leading an honors seminar this fall on the perennialist school. This is the first time, I might add, that I’ve offered such a course at the undergraduate level, and I’m doing so, at the...
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