Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), the leading figure in the perennialist school of comparative religious thought, remains one of the most provocative voices on religion. Bridging the divide between seeker and scholar, Schuon challenges the prevailing notion that religion should be studied with agnostic neutrality. He speaks to those who are looking for greater interfaith understanding and a deeper penetration to the esoteric heart of specific traditions, while turning the tables on an increasingly noisy chorus of skeptics.
In
Splendor of the True, James S. Cutsinger selects essential writings that reflect the full range of Schuon’s thought on religion and tradition, metaphysics and epistemology, human nature and destiny, sacred art and symbolism, and spirituality and contemplative method. In addition to Schuon’s essays, the book includes a number of poems, artworks, and previously unpublished materials drawn from his letters, personal memoirs, and private texts for disciples. An introductory chapter provides a careful examination of Schuon as perennial philosopher, Sufi
shaykh, and teacher of
gnosis.
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Illustrations
Poems
Foreword by Huston Smith
Introduction by James S. Cutsinger
Preface
Part I. Religion and Tradition
1. The Sense of the Absolute in Religions
2. Two Esotericisms
3. Concerning Naiveté
4. The Mystery of the Hypostatic Face
Part II. The Perennial Philosophy
5. Summary of Integral Metaphysics
6. Consequences Flowing from the Mystery of Subjectivity
7. Tracing the Notion of Philosophy
8. Understanding and Believing
Part III. Human Nature and Destiny
9. Man in the Universe
10. The Message of the Human Body
11. Man and Certainty
12. Universal Eschatology
Part IV. Sacred Art and Symbolism
13. The Question of Forms in Art
14. The Liberating Passage
15. An Elementary Criteriology of Celestial Apparitions
16. The Symbolism of the Hourglass
Part V. Spirituality
17. Modes of Spiritual Realization
18. The Anonymity of the Virtues
19. The Nature and Function of the Spiritual Master
20. The Stations of Wisdom
Conclusion:
Religio Perennis
Appendix: Selections from Letters, Spiritual Texts, and Memoirs
Translator’s Notes
Glossary
Sources
Bibliography of Works by Frithjof Schuon
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
James S. Cutsinger is Professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina. His many books include
Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon, also published by SUNY Press.
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