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is a fully revised translation of the original French edition and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings.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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... expression in the revealed Scriptures as well as the writings of the great sages and the artistic creations of the traditional worlds. Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism appears as one of our selec- tions in the ...
... expression in the revealed Scriptures as well as the writings of the great sages and the artistic creations of the traditional worlds. Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism appears as one of our selec- tions in the ...
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... expression in general or pious prolixity in particular.2 As for the appropriateness of textual additions, one must also take into account the growing need to counter or prevent her- esies, ever more numerous and more likely. 3 The first ...
... expression in general or pious prolixity in particular.2 As for the appropriateness of textual additions, one must also take into account the growing need to counter or prevent her- esies, ever more numerous and more likely. 3 The first ...
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... an atmosphere of the “heavenly Jeru- salem”, which delivers us from our earthly epoch. The merit of the ancient liturgies is not that they expressed their historical moment 11 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
... an atmosphere of the “heavenly Jeru- salem”, which delivers us from our earthly epoch. The merit of the ancient liturgies is not that they expressed their historical moment 11 On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations.
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... expressed their historical moment , but that they expressed something transcending it ; and if this something gave its imprint to an epoch , this means the epoch had the quality of possessing a nontemporal side , so much so that we have ...
... expressed their historical moment , but that they expressed something transcending it ; and if this something gave its imprint to an epoch , this means the epoch had the quality of possessing a nontemporal side , so much so that we have ...
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... expressed by saying that the Church is where the Pope is , which essentially presupposes that the Pope is the spokesman and instrument of what has been taught always and everywhere in Western Christianity and that none of his ...
... expressed by saying that the Church is where the Pope is , which essentially presupposes that the Pope is the spokesman and instrument of what has been taught always and everywhere in Western Christianity and that none of his ...
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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