by cutsinger | Aug 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by cutsinger | Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by cutsinger | Jul 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by cutsinger | Jul 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by cutsinger | Jun 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
I can see you’re getting in the swing of your upcoming studies already! Your diagnosis—and perhaps prognosis—concerning the “bright agnostics” I encounter in my honors seminars is for the most part right on target, and you’re right in thinking...
by cutsinger | Jun 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yes indeed, reading and listening to lectures can take a person only so far. Do you know the Tibetan parable? A lame man and a blind man are both attempting to make their way to the holy city of Lhasa, which stands in this case for the Western Paradise of...
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