by cutsinger | Jun 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Precision is clearly called for. It’s quite unfair of you to oversimplify things and say that we Christians “encourage self-doubt” while you Buddhists don’t. Your childhood experiences with the total depravity crowd, while certainly...
by cutsinger | May 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
“How,” you ask, “can we make modern people skeptical of their enormously successful science?” I very much doubt we can, not at least taking “modern people” en masse. I’ve certainly never supposed my own teaching or writing...
by cutsinger | May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Thank you very much for your good wishes with regard to my teaching award. God willing, it will provide some encouragement to those, whether fellow professors or students, who have every reason to wonder whether it’s still possible to take a stand for Tradition...
by cutsinger | Apr 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
The best spiritual state, it has been said, is one in which our heads are cool and our hearts are warm. The heart should be fervent, but we mustn’t let this fervor “go to our head” as a sort of Pharisaical zeal, while in our heads we should be...
by cutsinger | Apr 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
You ask whether there is anything “equivalent” to the Islamic Shahādah or the Jewish Shema in Christianity. I can think of several essentializations of our Way, including the text you mention, John 3:16. But if one is looking for something closer in form...
by cutsinger | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yes, I’m quite familiar with “The Practice of Substituted Love”, or rather with the chapter by that title in Charles Williams’s He Came Down from Heaven, which (I agree) is one of this Oxford Inkling’s most distinctively compelling...
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