Synopsis
The content of religions and their reason for being is the relationship between God and man... The diversity of religions results from the diversity of the possibilities comprised in the relationship between God and man; and this relationship is both unique and innumerable. The leitmotif of Schuon's corpus has been described as the religio perennis - the permanent link (religio) that is both natural and supernatural between God and man the Necessary and the possible. This book presents and illustrates many concepts and distinctions essential to metaphysics anthropology and religious phenomenology such as intellect-reason metaphysics-theology esoterism-exoterism and the concept of religious archetypes. The chapter entitled Âtmâ-Mâyâ is a succinct masterpiece on the degrees of Being as well as the relationship of metaphysics to cosmology.
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This book is, indeed, a serious challenge to the 'modern spirit' whose 'ideas no longer bite.' Highly recommended for all who seek an understanding of the 'traditional spirit'. CHOICE In the Face of the Absolute is prime Schuon. The Book Reader
About the Author
Frithjof Schuon wrote more than two dozen books on metaphysical, spiritual, artistic, and ethnic themes and was a regular contributor to journals on comparative religion in both Europe and America. He is best known as the foremost spokesman of the Perennial Philosophy and his writings have been consistently featured and reviewed in a wide range of scholarly and philosophical publications around the world, respected by both scholars and spiritual authorities. He was born in 1907 in Basle, Switzerland and died in the US in 1998. Harry Oldmeadow was Coordinator of Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University Bendigo, Australia, until his recent retirement. An acknowledged authority on the Perennialist school in general and Frithjof Schuon in particular, his articles have featured extensively in journals on comparative religion in America and Europe. He is the author of numerous works, including Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy (winner of the University of Sydney Medal for excellence in research), and Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy. He lives in Australia.
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