<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="/feed/bypass/styles/feed.css" media="screen"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/feed/bypass/styles/feed.xsl"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/">

	<channel>
	  <!-- main channel info -->
        <title>Metaphysics and world religions</title>
        <link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/forums/4</link>
        <description>
        <![CDATA[ Meaning of life, perennialism, heaven and hell, faith and science, etc. ]]>
        </description>

		<!-- optional elements -->
		<language>en-us</language>
		<copyright>Copyright 2006, Yuku</copyright>
		<managingEditor>feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster)</managingEditor>
		<webMaster>webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster)</webMaster>
		<!-- note: dates need to be RFC 822 formated "Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT" -->
		<lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:59:52 GMT</lastBuildDate>
		<generator>Yuku Feeds 1.0</generator>
		<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
		<!-- <cloud domain="rpc.yuku.com" port="80" path="/RPC2" registerProcedure="pingMe" protocol="soap"/>-->
		<ttl>60</ttl>
		<!-- feed image -->
		<image>
			<title>Yuku</title>
			<url>http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png</url>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/forums/4</link>
			<description>Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles</description>
			<width>88</width>
			<height>31</height>
		</image>
		<rating>
		{pics-1.1 &quot;http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html&quot; l gen true for &quot;http://yuku.com&quot; r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) &quot;http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html&quot; l gen true for &quot;http://yuku.com&quot; r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 ))
		</rating>
		<textInput>
			<title>Search</title>
			<description>Search Domain</description>
			<name>q</name>
			<link>http://yuku.com/search/direct/</link>
		</textInput>
		<!-- skip
		<skipHours>
			<hour>23</hour>
		</skipHours>
		<skipDays>
			<day>Monday</day>
			<day>Wednesday</day>
			<day>Friday</day>
		</skipDays>-->
		<!-- extensions -->


		<!-- channel items -->
		<!-- descriptions should be shorter than 500 char to be polite -->
		<!-- html shoud be stripped or escaped -->
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ 2012 - End of the World postponed!! ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/821/t/2012-End-of-the-World-postponed-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <img style="width: 331px; height: 126px;" src="http://www.collider.com/wp-content/image-base/Movies/T/Two_2012/posters/2012%20movie%20poster%20slice.jpg" alt="image">
<br>
Hundreds of books and millions of web sites as well as a blockbuster Hollywood movie are telling us the world will end in 2012 according to ancient Mayan
prophecy.  See this <a target="_blank" title="New York Times article" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17essay.html?_r=1&amp;hp">New York Times
article</a>... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Stratford)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/821</guid>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:56:02 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Jean Borella again ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/796/t/Jean-Borella-again.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ We discussed Borella&#39;s work a bit in connection with the &#39;unity of religions&#39; in another thread. Borella is an orthodox Catholic who has integrated
certain insights of Guenon with the ressourcement.  There is a good introduction to him, explaining his importance, <a title="here" target="_blank" href="http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2009/09/30/jean-borella-and-the-new-french-theology/">here</a>.
<br> ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Stratford)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/796</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:16:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Saint Sakyamuni ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/789/t/Saint-Sakyamuni.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ David Hart has a very intriguing article over at First Things. It relays how Christians of both East and West came to unwittingly venerate the Buddha under the
guise of Saint Josaphat of India. If Buddhists, sub specie aeternitatis, turn out to be anonymous Christians, it seems that, sub specie temporis, Christians
have turned out to be in some sense anonymous Buddhists!
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank"... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (JustinMartyr)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/789</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:22:26 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Metaphysics of Transubstantiation ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/787/t/Metaphysics-of-Transubstantiation.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In my book <span style="font-style: italic;">The Seven Sacraments</span>, I tried to explain transubstantiation by means of a simplified gift ontology. The
&#39;substance&#39; of everything (as distinct from its appearance) is what God is giving to the world in that thing. If his intention is expressed by Jesus in
the words, &#39;This is my body&#39;, then the substance is changed accordingly. I came across this lovely summary by Bishop Kallistos of the doctrine of
Maximus Confessor on the... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Stratford)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/787</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:47:11 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Eriugena ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/773/t/Eriugena.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: Georgia;">On the topic of books: Does anyone have any recommendations for reading on Johannes Scotus Eriugena?</span>
<br style="font-family: Georgia;">
<br style="font-family: Georgia;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I&#39;m aware of books by Deirdre Carabine, Dermot Moran, John J O&#39;Meara (I&#39;ve got Willemien Otten&#39;s
&quot;Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena&quot;) ... just wondering which one to go for next, or whether there are other... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (TJD)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/773</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:59:32 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Adrienne van Speyr and All Saints ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/666/t/Adrienne-van-Speyr-and-All-Saints.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Has anybody read the book newly published by Ignatius Press called &quot;The Book of All Saints&quot;? It is allegedly von Speyr&#39;s mystical dictations to
Hans urs von Balthasar regarding the inner soul of many men and women throughout the ages, including many saints, but also people like Beethoven, Mozart, and
El Greco? It is frankly a weird book, but very intriguing, and also potentially controversial. Having respect for von Speyr and von Balthasar I am reluctant to
dismiss it... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (npzinos)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/666</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:34:52 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Why a permanent Catholic-Muslim forum is of the utmost importance ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/659/t/--permanent-Catholic-Muslim-forum----utmost-importance.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The idea of establishing a permanent Catholic-Muslim forum is not without merit for the two faiths are committed to the postulate of revelation remaining
transcendent as well as immanent. This commitment, however, cannot permit the de jure flux of endless interpretations and re-interpretations of what
constitutes the transcendent and symbolic order. The distinction between the primary and secondary orders of meaning mitigates against the tendency to want to
substitute the divine, allegorical... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Nadeem)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/659</guid>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:32:15 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Books on Dionysius the Areopagite ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/653/t/Books-on-Dionysius-the-Areopagite.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <font face="Arial">Hi everyone,
<br>
<br>
  Well, let&#39;s see how yuku does on this message.
<br>
<br>
  There are two new books out on Dionysius (Denys) the Areopagite, who is one of the greatest mystical theologians in the Christian tradition.  One is a
strictly philosophical account by Eric Perl, <u>Theophany</u> (SUNY Press).  Perl is an excellent philosopher, and his book relates in great detail how
Dionysius is perhaps the epitome of the Neoplatonic tradition (at least that is the... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (tmahoney)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/653</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:42:44 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ SYMBOLISM ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/472/t/SYMBOLISM.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Picking up a conversation from one of the Fantasy Literature conversations about the importance of a new kind of catechesis based on symbolism, there are a couple of uselful texts on the web, including this one, a classic essay on the 13th century writer <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://anglicanhistory.org/neale/durandus/">Durandus</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, and this one, the full text of <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/LITURGY/SACRSIGN.TXT">Romano... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Stratford)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/472</guid>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:44:27 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Catholic Attitudes Towards Islam ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/475/t/Catholic-Attitudes-Towards-Islam.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings of Peace,<br><br>In the most recent issue of Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies there is a wonderful article by William Stoddart entitled, &quot;Catholic Attitudes Towards Islam&quot;. I thought I might quote a few of the selections Stoddart includes:<br><br>Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)<br><br>The following words were uttered by Pope Pius XI when dispatching his Apostolic Delegate to Libya in 1934:<br><br>&quot;Do not think you are going among infidels. Muslims attain to... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Nurudin)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/475</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:07:52 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Adopting Saints from Other Churches ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/476/t/Adopting-Saints-from-Other-Churches.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ As Catholics we acknowledge that a saint recognized by the Church is a dogmatic fact, not simply an honorary title - i.e. a saint is one who with the certainty of faith has achieved the prize of heaven and is meant to be a model for us in the Church militant. Usually this is done these days by a formal canonization process. What, however, are we to say about holy men and women from other Churches who seem to fall outside the pale of the Holy See's processes? I am thinking in particular of the... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (npzinos)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/476</guid>
			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:12:50 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Eternal damnation and HOPE ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/473/t/Eternal-damnation-and-HOPE.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I put some comments about this on the Second Spring frontpage for December 07. Any comments? In particular, what do people think of the treatment of purgatory
in the encyclical on Hope? Plenty of food for thought there. ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Stratford)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/473</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:09:49 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ The Science of Everything: Lull, Mirandola &amp; Kircher ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/477/t/The-Science-of-Everything-Lull-Mirandola-amp-Kircher.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ For a few years I have been fascinated by the attempt of certain thinkers to create an 'ars combinatoria' or combinatory art, the purpose of which is to combine all the disciplines of knowledge into one overarching system which would basically explain everything there is to know in the universe, while also giving the student the ability to see how all the sciences are ultimately interconnected. One may be tempted to pass this off as an erratic fancy if there wasn't such a formidable host of... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (npzinos)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/477</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:43:20 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ A Muslim Jesus? ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/482/t/A-Muslim-Jesus-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The ITV television broadcast of the documentary 'The Muslim Jesus' on Sunday 19th August 2007 was helpful for two reasons:-<br><br>1) for providing a much closer examination of the strictly Qur'anic story of the miraculous birth of Christ [Isa] and the providential function of the Virgin Mary [Maryam];<br><br>2) lending further credence to the influential argument that the esoteric similarities between the two faiths far outweigh the exoteric differences;<br><br>Christians are not generally... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Nadeem)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/482</guid>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:21:53 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ The Beautiful Names and the Litany ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/480/t/The-Beautiful-Names-and-the-Litany.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Recent objections to the performance of Sir John Taverner's musical composition 'The Beautiful Names' at Westminster Cathedral can be read in one of two ways; either the recitation of the Islamic 'Beautiful Names of God' is unacceptable in a mainly Gothic Church for reasons of religious dilution and 'eclecticism' or the objections are mistaken for confusing an intimate opening towards 'higher ecumenism' with unrelated concerns about the 'erosion' of Christian and Muslim values and its effects... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Nadeem)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/480</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:50:56 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ &quot;The Devout Doctor's Prescription&quot; WSJ ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/485/t/-quot-The-Devout-Doctor-s-Prescription-quot-WSJ.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I just read the lead story in today's <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Wall Street Journal</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> on ethics and stem-cell research and Donald Leary's involvement in proposed legislation here in the US. Here is the link to the article: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=1005737180">www.emailthis.clickabilit...1005737180</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I was glad that by the end, Tadeusz... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (NicoleCoonradt)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/485</guid>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:07:50 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Hope for Unbaptized Infants ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/486/t/Hope-for-Unbaptized-Infants.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I was recently reading an interview with Cardinal Bertone in which he alludes to the 'editio typica' of the papal encyclical 'Evangelium Vitae'. I did not notice the revision until he brought it up, but there is a substantial difference between the original document and its official text. When Pope John Paul first published the document he stated, with regard to aborted fetuses, that they were 'with the Lord'. It was a rather shocking pronouncement, considering the traditional reservation of... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (npzinos)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/486</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:16:24 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Secular Humanism... ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/484/t/Secular-Humanism-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (HomoQuaerens)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/484</guid>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:04:46 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Debate about Islam ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/474/t/Debate-about-Islam.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Interesting piece about the fractures within Islam on the Chiesa site. Extract: <br><br>&quot;for the Taliban, the Sufi world represents the adversary par excellence, to be fought and eliminated, precisely because mystical Islam contains the alternative to political Islam.&quot; <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=134561&amp;eng=y">chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=134561&amp;eng=y</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Stratford)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/474</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:36:27 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
		<item>
			<title><![CDATA[ Margaret Barker on the Hidden Tradition ]]></title>
			<link>http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/488/t/Margaret-Barker-on-the-Hidden-Tradition.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Since I am working on the interpretation of the book of Revelation, I am studying the writings of Dr Margaret Barker, who has published a string of important books on the First Temple tradition of Jewish mysticism which re-surfaces in Revelation. Her most recent book is <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of God</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> (2007). It would be interesting to see what others make of her interpretation.<br><br>There is an article by her <!--EZCODE... ]]></description>

			<!-- optional elements -->
			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Stratford)</author>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/488</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
			<!-- extensions -->

		</item>
    <!-- end items -->

  </channel>
</rss>