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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:02:01 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Wisdom Christianity</title><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/</link><description></description><lastBuildDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:11:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright></copyright><language>en-US</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><item><title>And the Wheels Were Turning: Imagining Wisdoms</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/and-the-wheels-were-turning-imagining-wisdoms.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5245730</guid><description><![CDATA[If we are to respond to the question of a Christian contemplative wisdom for today, we cannot spend all our time on the well-trodden way of rational reflection. Let us take a suggestion from one of the more exciting principles of postmodern thought: the enactive, creative quality of knowledge. Can we imagine our way forward?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5245730.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>The Revolution of Jesus</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/the-revolution-of-jesus.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5245728</guid><description><![CDATA['The Revolution of Jesu' is a response to the question, "What is distinctive about Christianity?" Or, "What is really new in the Christ-event that was not already present beforehand, either in the biblical tradition or in other religious traditions of the world?" The background of this response is reflection on the Asian-Christian dialogue, and on the need for a clearer self-understanding that faces Christians in this dialogue.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5245728.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Bede Griffiths and the Future of Wisdom</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:08:30 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/bede-griffiths-and-the-future-of-wisdom.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5245725</guid><description><![CDATA[While Father Bede was first of all a man of the Spirit, he was also a philosopher and theologian. He is, in fact, one of several monastic thinkers who have opened before us the prospect of a rebirth of the Christian sapiential tradition in our time. I would like to look back briefly at the development of his vision, and then look forward at the road which still lies before us.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5245725.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>The Noonday of East and West</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:07:15 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/the-noonday-of-east-and-west.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5245724</guid><description><![CDATA[Suppose that we live in the evening of western civilization and on the eve of a global humanity. Suppose that one of the gifts that belong to our late hour is a depth of historical vision-like the ability that we acquire through our contemporary radio telescopes and particle accelerators to look back nearly to the beginning of the Universe-a heightened vision with which we can trace the unfolding of the mystery of Christ from its beginning in the New Testament through the centuries to our own time.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5245724.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Wisdom and History</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:06:29 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/wisdom-and-history.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5245720</guid><description><![CDATA[What is the relation between wisdom and history? No simple answer can be given, of course, to such a maddeningly simplistic question. The question is forced upon us, though, by the fact that the progress of history has brought about an eclipse of spiritual wisdom in our contemporary western world. Father Bede repeatedly drew a thick dividing line between, on the one hand, the ages in which the 'universal wisdom' or 'perennial philosophy' prevailed among the various peoples of the world and, on the other hand, the modern age which he saw beginning in the West with the Renaissance.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5245720.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Poetry and Wisdom</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:05:53 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/poetry-and-wisdom.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5245716</guid><description><![CDATA[It has been said that the proper language of wisdom is poetry. We realize this when we read the classic texts of the world’s great sapiential traditions. The literature of antiquity, indeed, when not merely factual or legislative, lives most often within an aura which is at once poetic and sapiential. The patristic and medieval wisdom literature of Christianity, though mostly prose, was saturated with a kind of poetry which is directly derivative from the poetry of the Bible.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5245716.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Augustine and the Wisdom of the West</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:04:28 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/augustine-and-the-wisdom-of-the-west.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5245711</guid><description><![CDATA[As we experience a rebirth of the wisdom tradition of Christianity, it is natural to want to know the story of that tradition and of its strange fate (virtual extinction) in the West. We cannot understand the history which has led us into this sapiential desert of the modern West, however, without interrogating St. Augustine.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5245711.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Bede Griffiths and the Shape of Wholeness</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:13:14 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/bede-griffiths-and-the-shape-of-wholeness.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5244259</guid><description><![CDATA[Bede Griffiths reacted strongly against the modern western dualism of mind and body, and even more strongly against the crude scientism which had reduced all reality to material bodies and forces. He revived a threefold view of reality as at once matter, consciousness and spirit, and a tripartite view of the human person as a unity of body, mind/psyche and spirit. This is the 'vertical axis' of his vision.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5244259.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Bede Griffiths and the Rebirth of Christian Wisdom</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:12:15 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/bede-griffiths-and-the-rebirth-of-christian-wisdom.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5244257</guid><description><![CDATA[This evening I would like to speak about Bede Griffiths and the Rebirth of Christian Wisdom. You might call this Bede's central concern. Wisdom, I believe, is what is symbolized by the 'golden string' that marked his lifelong quest. Again and again, Bede writes of a universal tradition, a 'perennial philosophy' that has vanished from the modern West. When he migrated to India, it was in search of a wisdom which he could not find in the western world.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5244257.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Christianity in the Light of Asian Nonduality</title><dc:creator>Bede Griffiths Trust</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:11:26 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/christianity-in-the-light-of-asian-nonduality.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421441:4651339:5244253</guid><description><![CDATA[The Asian contemplative traditions attract Christians today by their depth, simplicity and experiential power, and in doing so invite Christianity back to the unity and fullness of its own internal 'East'. Here is monasticism, 'blessed simplicity' and contemplative interiority. Here is rediscovered the original unity and apophatic transparency of the Christ-event.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom-christianity/rss-comments-entry-5244253.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>
