by cutsinger | Jan 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
You’re interested in what my response might be to the recent censure by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of Peter Phan’s 2004 book Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue. I confess...
by cutsinger | Jan 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Your comments concerning the recent Martin Luther King, Jr Annual Service Day reminded me of an after-dinner talk I gave a few years ago for a chapter of the National Honor Society at a nearby Catholic school. I agree that it’s almost impossible not to be...
by cutsinger | Jan 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
How should you go about determining whether this group you’ve been looking into, the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America, has valid sacraments? Is it, you ask, primarily a matter of lineage? There are doubtless other factors to consider, but this is certainly a...
by cutsinger | Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
No, I wouldn’t change, and here’s why: 1. Every sacred formula, Christian or Muslim or otherwise, can begin to seem hollow or empty of meaning in the spiritual work; times of dryness are to be expected. 2. The Name ALLAH is of course, as you say, a...
by cutsinger | Jan 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Tolkien was certainly a “traditionalist”, if by that term we mean a defender of things primordial, and therefore timeless, and hence a critic of the modern world—its philosophy, art, and politics. This is implicit in The Silmarillion and The Lord of...
by cutsinger | Jan 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Not having read his Hermeneutics of the Subject, I was unaware of the way in which Foucault uses the terms metanoia and epistroph?. I assume he must be piggy-backing on Pierre Hadot’s excellent work (see my posts for 12 September and 15 September 2007)....
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