On the Uses and Abuses of "Realized Eschatology"

Insofar as we persist in using the word eschatology, it cannot by definition, for us here and now, ever be fully "realized."

John Betz on Eternity's Marian Bearer

In a Christian theology of time, according to John Betz, time has more than just analogical value vis-à-vis eternity. It is, rather, eternity's "Marian bearer."

Sketching a Christo-Centric Perennialism: A Speculative Reading of Some Scriptures

The Perennial Philosophy, Sophia Perennis, is a school of thought within the field of Comparative Religion which aims to understand the plurality of religions as stemming from a singular Source. In the West we call this Beginning Point, God. Perennial Philosophy is also described as: "[an] underlying basic shared

Fathers, Sages and the Book of Creation: Reading Genesis with Nahmanides

Nahmanides had success salvaging certain pre-Maimonidean currents of Jewish exegesis while seeking to set them on a new comparatively more systematic basis.

Alchemy, Archaic, and Industrial: A Spirituality of Metallurgy

Alchemy is an industrial spirituality. It embraces Nature as the materia of spiritual transformation and the metals as ripe for transformation.

All Longing Leads Us Back to God

The essential structure of all conscious mental agency is a relation to God as mind's only proper end, says David Bentley Hart.

Book Review: Spiritual Eldership, Confession and Charisms in Wounded by Love

It is as though the flame of divine eros burning brightly within Dimas made Porphyrios's own heart and soul ignite.

The Heart's Reasons: Philokalic Revival from Athos to the Anglosphere

From a fall into neglect even among the monks of Mt. Athos, the texts of the Philokalia have enjoyed a remarkable success in the modern era.

Personhood and Individuation in the Philosophical Anthropology of Henry Corbin

For Corbin, the Person is the first and final reality. This is not idealism, nor realism, nor materialism, and certainly not historicism, but rather 'personalism.'

Children of the Eschaton

If the disciples are to expect some kind of biological or spiritual progeny, then whence apocalypse?

A note on Rumi's cosmology

Rumi's approach to metaphysics is fundamentally essential. He prescinds from dry and technical phrases, and penetrates into the heart of his subject in the simplest manner.

Profane Duration and Sacred Time

Religious man lives in two kinds of time, of which the more important, sacred time, appears under the paradoxical aspect of a circular time – a sort of eternal mythical present periodically reintegrated by means of rites.