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Children of the Eschaton
If the disciples are to expect some kind of biological or spiritual progeny, then whence apocalypse?
Rumi
Rumi's approach to metaphysics is fundamentally essential. He prescinds from dry and technical phrases, and penetrates into the heart of his subject in the simplest manner.
time
Religious man lives in two kinds of time, of which the more important, sacred time, appears under the paradoxical aspect of a circular time – a sort of eternal mythical present periodically reintegrated by means of rites.
Mary
Mary's status as the Mother of All is neither a metaphor nor a figure of speech nor merely granting an obvious occurrence of Biblical typology.
Jesus
Christ's act of the feeding of the multitude is the sole miracle referenced in all four canonical gospels. The Apostle John calls the phenomenon a sēmeion—a "sign"— indicating to his reader the parabolic, symbolic nature of this particular scripture. Relying primarily on Olympiodorus’ allegorization of
Rumi
Rumi's most cardinal doctrine is the invitation of his disciples to a nonexistence which, not only is above any form of being, but constitutes our final end and teleology.
metaphysics
While it is incomprehensible to our limited minds, it is rationally possible for God to be at once one and two, one and three, alive and dead in the grave.
Genesis
A careful reading of Genesis reveals a curious discrepancy between Yahweh's injunction and how Eve relates it whilst conversing with the Serpent.
To God belong the East and the West; withersoever you turn, there is the Face of God; God is All-embracing, All-knowing. (The Holy Quran, translated by A.J. Arberry, Surah Al-Baqarah Verse 115) Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Beauty is the last thing which the thinking
One of the most darling and devastating creatures of the Old Testament is Leviathan. He is mentioned more than six times by different names and a number of times without a name. Leviathan is depicted as an ultra powerful sea serpent of some sort. The creature is often almost mentioned
Dispatches from the Eighth Clime
Only that which we can never possess can we never lose.
In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only word that is prohibited? —Jorge Luis Borges, “the Garden of the Forking Paths” [1] The Japanese philosopher and professor of Islamic studies Toshihiko Izutsu delivered a riveting public lecture at the Fifth East-West Philosophers’ Conference in Hawaii in June
Whatever is virtuous in light of our divine life in Christ must ever expect, with no exception or suspense, what is imminent.
We tend to grow pale and tremble when we come to recognize that the Eternal Spirit of Love is gradually removing all sense of self-importance from us; but how quickly we forget that it is self-importance that's being removed – not our actual importance. For this self-conception is as
"That singularity is empirically and immediately accessible to us, while remaining objectively indeterminate, utopian."
In the opening chapter of East of Eden, John Steinbeck artfully (and rather wistfully) reports his take on the spiritual consciousness of American pioneers in the late 19th-century – many of them first- and second-generation immigrants, and therefore migrants twice over. Writing specifically about those families who settled in the Salinas
Why has the future tense come to displace the present in certain renditions of the Words of Institution? “This is my body which will be given up for you”? Weak tea, I say. Count me firmly in the camp of “This is my body which is given up (or, better,
This world of ours is obviously a strange mix of good and evil. There is astonishing and inspiring balance, harmony, vision, and beauty on display alongside devastating and utterly irrational suffering, loss, blindness, and incompletion. So much is left unseen and unfinished in every moment, and yet every moment also
This reflection is a fool’s mission, but it seems absurd not to make an attempt at describing this season of Holy Week. Our priest reminds us to keep silent this Holy Saturday as Christ is in the tomb, but these thoughts reach for nothing and contain no conclusions. They
Note: this was taken from an informal, online share by David Armstrong and posted with his permission. The charge nailed above Jesus’s head was “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” Jesus was crucified, a Roman method of execution reserved for seditionists and insurrectionists. Jesus is remembered in all
David Bentley Hart tells the story of a tree that he saw shaking with laughter and that sent him running away in fear as a boy of about seventeen. This is from “A Conversation Between Salley Vickers and David Bentley Hart” posted to Leaves in the Wind on November 7,
I’m only responding fifteen years late, but Christopher Southgate’s book The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) was moving to me with its rare level of concern for animal suffering. It is a profoundly thoughtful book with many insights