Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism : a New Translation with Selected LettersSchuon'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is a fully revised translation of the original French edition and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings. |
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... Fathers, but little by little worshiping “in spirit and in truth” gave way to increasingly numerous observances, though without one possibility precluding the other;1 thus the liturgy was born. In early times lit- urgy was comparatively ...
... Fathers, but little by little worshiping “in spirit and in truth” gave way to increasingly numerous observances, though without one possibility precluding the other;1 thus the liturgy was born. In early times lit- urgy was comparatively ...
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... Father to cause His Holy Spirit to descend upon the Eucharistic spe- cies and change them—“by the favor of Thy goodness”, says Saint Basil—into the body and blood of Christ. Saint John Chrysostom, author of one of the most widely used ...
... Father to cause His Holy Spirit to descend upon the Eucharistic spe- cies and change them—“by the favor of Thy goodness”, says Saint Basil—into the body and blood of Christ. Saint John Chrysostom, author of one of the most widely used ...
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... Father to send the Holy Spirit in order to bring about the miracle, and therefore his order to “do this in remembrance of me” could not have implied any consecrating sup- plication; or again, in instituting the Eucharist he was not ...
... Father to send the Holy Spirit in order to bring about the miracle, and therefore his order to “do this in remembrance of me” could not have implied any consecrating sup- plication; or again, in instituting the Eucharist he was not ...
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... father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold,” one immediately thinks of monks and nuns; now Luther thought it was solely a question of per- secutions, in the ...
... father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold,” one immediately thinks of monks and nuns; now Luther thought it was solely a question of per- secutions, in the ...
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... father was de Labadie , a mystic converted to the Reformation in the seventeenth century , and whose most notable representatives were no doubt Spener and Tersteegen ; this pietism , or piety , always exists in various places in either ...
... father was de Labadie , a mystic converted to the Reformation in the seventeenth century , and whose most notable representatives were no doubt Spener and Tersteegen ; this pietism , or piety , always exists in various places in either ...
Contents
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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 |
Common terms and phrases
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