The Form of Transformed Vision: Coleridge and the Knowledge of God

by James S. Cutsinger

Book by CUTSINGER, James S.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1987

About the author

James S. Cutsinger (Ph.D., Harvard) is Professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina.

The recipient of a number of teaching awards, including most recently USC’s Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year for 2011, Professor Cutsinger offers courses in Religious Studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and directs a series of great books seminars in the University’s prestigious Honors College.

He is a widely recognized writer on the sophia perennis and the traditionalist or perennialist school of comparative religious thought. An authority on the theology and spirituality of the Christian East, he is best known for his work on the Swiss philosopher Frithjof Schuon.

Reviews

[Alex Kartelias · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most intense philosophy books I've read, which requires not just a dialectical mind, but an Imaginitive one with the ability to pierce the veils of form and space. The Vision Dr. Cutsinger speaks of, is a Vision which dissolves material bodies and coagulates the Platonic Ideas, into a World which hovers between Spirit and Matter: what Henry Corbin called the Mundus Imaginalis or Imaginal Realm. This Placeless-Place has been part of the Islamic Theosophical/Philosophical Tradition in people like Ibn Arabi and al-Shurawardi, and of the scattered few in the Christian world, the great poet S.T. Coleridge has spoken about this World as well.

This book is quite a challenge to read, but the rewards are immense. Mixing apologetics, alchemy, symbolism, music, chemistry, geometry and poetry, this book shows the connection of the All in the All, the One in the Many and the Many in the One.