Tag: Cross

Science of the Cross: Edith Stein’s Theocentric Humanism

With the seemingly never-ending sequence of misfortunes and disasters that fill the news, it takes only a cursory glance at the news headlines to evoke one’s interest in a book which promises a “science of the cross.”[1] What could such a science be, and might it offer some hope for
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The Return to the Mystical: Jacques Lacan, John of the Cross, and the Christian Tradition

While at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, I studied with Professor Peter Tyler who took a Wittgensteinian approach to his research, but applied it directly to questions of spiritual formation in the Catholic tradition. As is generally known by those interested in philosophy, Wittgenstein wrote two primary works: the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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