![]() ![]() ![]() Valentin Tomberg, the true author of Meditations who is identified in the book merely as “your friend from beyond the grave,” took on an even more dangerous task when he attempted to reconcile what insights he could from the fringes of German and French Romanticism and Esotericism with orthodox Catholicism. John the Apostle who unlocked the cosmic implications of the Logos, and end with Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day, whose Catholic Worker Movement reconciled the Anarchism of Peter Kropotkin with the personalism of St. A list of such thinkers might begin with St. This type, though, is not limited to the Angelic Doctor. Thomas Aquinas is the most obvious example of such a figure, reconciling the insights of Aristotle, and through him the best of the Greek philosophical tradition, with the Catholic Faith. ![]() These figures appear when some new body of knowledge, when some great insight or edifice of thought must be reconciled with the Christian Tradition. Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism is the work of a great reconciler. Calhoun, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. ![]()
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