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is a fully revised translation of the original French edition and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings.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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... Question of Protestantism Part Two : Intermediary Problems The Problem of Moral Divergences Alternations in Semitic Monotheism Part Three : Islam The Idea of " The Best " in Religions vii 3333 13 23 57 65 Images of Islam Dilemmas of ...
... Question of Protestantism Part Two : Intermediary Problems The Problem of Moral Divergences Alternations in Semitic Monotheism Part Three : Islam The Idea of " The Best " in Religions vii 3333 13 23 57 65 Images of Islam Dilemmas of ...
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... questions posed by the many inquirers and visitors, from a variety of religious back- grounds, who looked to him for advice; nearly two thousand of his letters have been preserved. He also composed nearly twelve hundred short spiritual ...
... questions posed by the many inquirers and visitors, from a variety of religious back- grounds, who looked to him for advice; nearly two thousand of his letters have been preserved. He also composed nearly twelve hundred short spiritual ...
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... message into practice ; this is the most flagrant as well as the most ruinous error imaginable in this realm . The following remarks should be made regarding the question of 5 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
... message into practice ; this is the most flagrant as well as the most ruinous error imaginable in this realm . The following remarks should be made regarding the question of 5 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
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... question of liturgical languages. The value of such languages is objective and not a subjective question of appreciation, and this means that there are languages of a sacred character and that they possess this character either by their ...
... question of liturgical languages. The value of such languages is objective and not a subjective question of appreciation, and this means that there are languages of a sacred character and that they possess this character either by their ...
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... question of imagination and not solely of logic : an imagination that is completely at ease in a world of din and vulgarity , to the point of finding everything that does not belong to this world abnor- mal and ludicrous , forfeits all ...
... question of imagination and not solely of logic : an imagination that is completely at ease in a world of din and vulgarity , to the point of finding everything that does not belong to this world abnor- mal and ludicrous , forfeits all ...
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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