Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism : a New Translation with Selected LettersWorld Wisdom, Inc, 2008 - 267 pagine Schuon's articles on the relationship between Christianity and Islam have profound implications in the field of inter-religious dialogue. Several thought-provoking chapters shed light, from an inward dimension, upon the apparent outward contradictions between these two religions, notably in the field of moral divergences. This new edition is a fully revised translation of the original French edition and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings. |
Dall'interno del libro
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Pagina 3
... more realistic, complex, and flexible in its mentality and structure; we shall speak of this again in another chapter of this book. to new conditions; and this adaptation—or this flowering of a 3 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
... more realistic, complex, and flexible in its mentality and structure; we shall speak of this again in another chapter of this book. to new conditions; and this adaptation—or this flowering of a 3 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
Pagina 4
... speak. This quasi-collective sanctity disappeared fairly rapidly—and quite naturally, men of the “dark age” being what they are—chiefly because of an increase in the number of the faithful; it then became necessary to make the presence ...
... speak. This quasi-collective sanctity disappeared fairly rapidly—and quite naturally, men of the “dark age” being what they are—chiefly because of an increase in the number of the faithful; it then became necessary to make the presence ...
Pagina 6
... speaking archaic languages—languages that are therefore capable in principle of liturgical use, though not in fact widely prevalent—fi nd Latin replaced by another foreign language linguistically inferior to their own and moreover ...
... speaking archaic languages—languages that are therefore capable in principle of liturgical use, though not in fact widely prevalent—fi nd Latin replaced by another foreign language linguistically inferior to their own and moreover ...
Pagina 9
... speaking , things arbitrarily selected for identification with “ our time ” , as if other contemporary phe- nomena ... speak to an entire society as 9 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
... speaking , things arbitrarily selected for identification with “ our time ” , as if other contemporary phe- nomena ... speak to an entire society as 9 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
Pagina 10
... speak to an entire society as one would speak to a handful of mystics . We have also mentioned an adaptation to providential ethnic groups , which in the case of Christianity are grosso modo — after the Jews — the Greeks , Romans ...
... speak to an entire society as one would speak to a handful of mystics . We have also mentioned an adaptation to providential ethnic groups , which in the case of Christianity are grosso modo — after the Jews — the Greeks , Romans ...
Sommario
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The Problem of Moral Divergences | 57 |
Alternations in Semitic Monotheism | 65 |
The Idea of The Best in Religions | 91 |
3333 | 101 |
23 | 112 |
Paradise as Theophany | 169 |
Atomism and Creation | 175 |
On the Divine Will | 181 |
Selections from Letters and Other Previously | 189 |
The Spiritual Virtues according to Saint Francis of Assisi | 209 |
Editors Notes | 215 |
Glossary of Foreign Terms and Phrases | 245 |
Index | 257 |
Dilemmas of Muslim Scholasticism | 133 |
Biographical Notes | 267 |
Parole e frasi comuni
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