Sublime

James K. A. Smith is fast becoming a major voice in the world of postmodern theology. One of his major strengths is his ability to show that theology matters inside and outside the world of scholarship.

political, social, and economic forces, the significance of which he himself did not understand. During all the period since then you have lived in a Christian nation in which you are segregated, lynched, and burned. Even in the church, I understand, there is segregation. One of my students who went to your country sent me a clipping telling about

Dr. Mark Epstein.

Writing in 1957, Eliade argued that the world we live in had lost its hierophanies—that all things were part of the same flat reality.

Today, if we are to live in peace with a minimum of suffering, we must establish a spiritual foundation — in both our social and domestic lives — that is not controlled by the external world.

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

The question of existence is real, comprehensible, and unavoidable, and yet it lies beyond the power of naturalism to answer it, or even to ask it.

R. H. Blyth’s marvelous study of Zen in English Literature has shown most clearly that the essential insights of Zen are universal.

a contrast life aimed at communion.