{"id":12103,"date":"2009-11-29T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/francois-fenelon\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:51:41","slug":"francois-fenelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/francois-fenelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois F\u00e9nelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/06035a.htm\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Fran\u00e7ois F\u00e9nelon<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> the Christian sounds like a Buddhist when he <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.passtheword.org\/DIALOGS-FROM-THE-PAST\/innerlife.htm\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">speaks<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> of the annihilation of the soul in God:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Nothing would give us more delight than that God should do all his pleasure with us, provided it should always be to magnify and perfect us in our own eyes. But if we are not willing to be destroyed and annihilated, we shall never become that <em>whole burnt offering<\/em>, which is entirely consumed in the blaze of God&#39;s love.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">We desire to enter into a state of pure faith, and retain our own wisdom! To be a babe, and great in our own eyes! Ah! what a sad delusion!<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I am attracted by the thesis of the esoteric (transcendent) unity of all religions, a thesis argued by <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frithjof-schuon.com\/start.htm\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">Frithjof Schuon<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">. Beyond divergence of doctrine, unity. But I am also skeptical of the unity thesis. If Islam affirms the radical unicity of God, and Christianity denies it by affirming the tri-unity of God, what is the synthesis in which this thesis and that antithesis are <em>aufgehoben<\/em>? And so on down the line. How reconcile The Buddhist <em>anatman<\/em> doctrine with Christian personalism?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois F\u00e9nelon the Christian sounds like a Buddhist when he speaks of the annihilation of the soul in God: Nothing would give us more delight than that God should do all his pleasure with us, provided it should always be to magnify and perfect us in our own eyes. But if we are not willing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/francois-fenelon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fran\u00e7ois F\u00e9nelon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysticism","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}