Universal salvation emerges from deep theological and historical roots, challenging the long-held consensus with a vision of hope grounded in the earliest teachings of Christ and the Church Fathers.
Persecution and poverty of spirit do not run counter to the spirit of Christmas. In fact, such conditions are at the heart of incarnation itself.
Tradition differs from an apostolic deposit, as the Nicene Trinity isn't explicitly taught in the New Testament and reflects varied early Christologies.
Insofar as we persist in using the word eschatology, it cannot by definition, for us here and now, ever be fully "realized."
In a Christian theology of time, according to John Betz, time has more than just analogical value vis-à-vis eternity. It is, rather, eternity's "Marian bearer."
The Perennial Philosophy, Sophia Perennis, is a school of thought within the field of Comparative Religion which aims to understand the plurality of religions as stemming from a singular Source. In the West we call this Beginning Point, God. Perennial Philosophy is also described as: "[an] underlying basic shared
Nahmanides had success salvaging certain pre-Maimonidean currents of Jewish exegesis while seeking to set them on a new comparatively more systematic basis.
Alchemy is an industrial spirituality. It embraces Nature as the materia of spiritual transformation and the metals as ripe for transformation.
The essential structure of all conscious mental agency is a relation to God as mind's only proper end, says David Bentley Hart.
It is as though the flame of divine eros burning brightly within Dimas made Porphyrios's own heart and soul ignite.
From a fall into neglect even among the monks of Mt. Athos, the texts of the Philokalia have enjoyed a remarkable success in the modern era.
For Corbin, the Person is the first and final reality. This is not idealism, nor realism, nor materialism, and certainly not historicism, but rather 'personalism.'
children
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
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