by cutsinger | Feb 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Here are some answers (or attempted answers) to the four questions you pose. God knows best. 1. You ask how to “fit” your daily prayers into an already tightly packed schedule. One of the Catholic saints—Francis de Sales, perhaps—said that...
by cutsinger | Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
So you’re going to be leading a discussion of the great Lossky’s Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church for an adult Sunday school group at your church, and you write to ask whether I have any suggestions? NO! What else could the answer be to a question...
by cutsinger | Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
In his book on the Shaykh Al-Alawi, A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century, Martin Lings comments on one of the Shaykh’s aphorisms: “To demand increase showeth ignorance in a disciple.” According to Lings, this saying refers among other things to the...
by cutsinger | Jan 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
You asked about current and upcoming courses. Classes just started this week for me, and I’m offering two. First is an old standby I call “Faith, Doubt, and God”. Close to seventy brave souls have shown up to test my in-your-face promise to prove the...
by cutsinger | Dec 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
You’re “astonished”, you say, that Saint Thomas Aquinas should be so highly praised in Professor Oldmeadow’s book concerning the perennialist school: Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of Perennial Philosophy (soon to be republished by World...
by cutsinger | Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
You asked about the role—or perhaps better the “position”—of Christ in Christian prayer. It is common among the Fathers of the Christian East, and thus among many Orthodox authorities, to say that one should pray “in” the Holy...
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