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In the season of Aquinas’s feast day, I am sharing a poem I gathered from Aquinas’s sentences that form the chapter titles of my recent
I am writing this DM on January 28 which is the Feast Day of Thomas Aquinas. It won’t appear until Monday, however, so it will be
Beginning with Dr. King’s teaching that dualism is a “strange” and unbiblical” teaching, we have since his birthday been focusing on his and Chenu’s and
The late Buddhist monk and saint Thich Nhat Hanh promises that “the valuable jewels in the Christian tradition will be rediscovered” when it rediscovers “non-duality.” This
Chenu admires Aquinas for the importance he gives to matter. Remember Aquinas tells us that this is why he preferred Aristotle to Plato, because Aristotle “does
Dr. King proposed that “human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” This seems to be another way to say that to conform
Père Chenu held a strong cosmic sense. Nature and humanity, nature and spirit were one for him. This is the meaning of a creation-based spirituality after all. Non-dualism extends to
A non-dualistic attitude toward matter and body results in a non-dualistic attitude toward the body politic. Democracy or an effort at fairness and justice, a spirituality
We have been considering non-dualism as championed by MLK Jr and Pere Chenu, feminist writer Rosemary Ruether, Thich Nhat Hanh and many more. Non-dualism includes
We are discussing how Martin Luther King, Jr. and Père Chenu agree that dualism is a “strange” and “unbiblical” (or unJewish) way to look at
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