by cutsinger | Oct 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’m glad you liked Eats, Shoots, and Leaves; it is indeed a wonderful book, as you say. But I confess I was surprised when you expressed your disappointment that the author, Lynne Truss, “takes anything less than a fascist attitude toward imposing the...
by cutsinger | Oct 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
The key to Christian teaching on the subject of the Crucifixion is closely related to the Christological point I was speaking about in my last post (30 September). Christ is not merely empowered or indwelled by the Divine Logos or Word; He is that Logos in human form....
by cutsinger | Sep 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’m afraid it’s a serious mistake to write, as you have, that “most Christian theologians have labeled the belief in one fully Divine Jesus as the monophysite heresy”. This is by no means the case. Every orthodox Christian believes and teaches...
by cutsinger | Sep 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
I can easily understand your desire to re-marry; given your many years in that state, it’s only natural that you would feel lonely now and only natural in turn that you would keenly desire to return to what you knew. At the risk of seeming rather cold and...
by cutsinger | Sep 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
Your reference to Crossett’s poem is most timely. As it happens we just finished J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion in the “Oxford Inklings” honors seminar I am teaching this term, and during the course of exploring this book we had occasion to...
by cutsinger | Sep 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
What you describe is not uncommon. The spiritual life entails a process of purgation, and it is in the nature of things that the ego, sensing its own eventual death, will react against this. From the ego’s point of view, as a spiritual master once told me,...
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