by cutsinger | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
A former graduate student of mine, a Roman Catholic like you—and having, like you, a serious interest in the philosophia perennis and the contemplative paths of the world’s orthodox religions—researched the question you pose with some care. And when...
by cutsinger | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Platonic knowledge is more than mental assent to a proposition; it’s the vision of the whole man, rightly formed by training in geometry, music, and gymnastics (among other arts). The writer of the rather jejune article you cite, claiming as he does that Plato...
by cutsinger | Dec 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was recently looking over your little book on The Life Aligned, and I was struck by what you said (on pp. 14-15) about the “need” of His Endlessness. As you note, Gurdjieff calls us to conscious suffering as our part in an “extraordinary...
by cutsinger | Nov 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
You ask for my opinion concerning the following passage from the Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan: “There is material presence, in which no knowing is involved, and such is the presence of the statue in the courtyard. There is intentional...
by cutsinger | Nov 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
You write regarding your use of the Jesus Prayer: “Sometimes I think I feel warmth, and sometimes my mind is attentive and my feelings fixed on one good thing. And in the next moment, everything vaporizes.” Very few of us can expect much more than a rare...
by cutsinger | Oct 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yes, my teaching “strategies” run the spectrum. If I were to plot my approaches in the different courses I teach, they would vary from my introduction to world religions, in which I lecture for as much as an hour (in a 75-minute class) and then respond to...
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