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is a fully revised translation of the original French edition and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings.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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... mysticism . " -Annemarie Schimmel , Harvard University " [ This ] collection has some essays that will interest students engaged in the comparative study of ... Islam and Christianity . More significantly , it succeeds in achieving an ...
... mysticism . " -Annemarie Schimmel , Harvard University " [ This ] collection has some essays that will interest students engaged in the comparative study of ... Islam and Christianity . More significantly , it succeeds in achieving an ...
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... mystical vibrations of forms, one cannot but regret these false concessions, which moreover are not limited to the realm of language and which impoverish and disfigure the expressive splendor of the sacerdo- tal genius of the Eastern ...
... mystical vibrations of forms, one cannot but regret these false concessions, which moreover are not limited to the realm of language and which impoverish and disfigure the expressive splendor of the sacerdo- tal genius of the Eastern ...
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... 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 , Germans , Celts , Slavs , and a minority of Near - Easterners ...
... 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 , Germans , Celts , Slavs , and a minority of Near - Easterners ...
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... mystical element is attached to this precise function of coopera- tion, an element more or less independent of the function even while coloring it in its own fashion. We have seen that the Catholic Mass also includes one such element of ...
... mystical element is attached to this precise function of coopera- tion, an element more or less independent of the function even while coloring it in its own fashion. We have seen that the Catholic Mass also includes one such element of ...
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... mystical values. If Evangelicalism—to use the term favored by Luther—were located in a world such as that of ... mysticism within Buddhism, though in a way that accentuates another dimension of the archetype, namely, as a cosmic prodigy ...
... mystical values. If Evangelicalism—to use the term favored by Luther—were located in a world such as that of ... mysticism within Buddhism, though in a way that accentuates another dimension of the archetype, namely, as a cosmic prodigy ...
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 |
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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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