The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity

by Frithjof Schuon

For the first time, this book collects from Schoun's vast corpus his writings on Christianity, including selections from his personal correspondence and other previously unpunblished materials.

Genres: Christianity, Religion, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Philosophy

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 25, 2003

About the author

Frithjof Schuon was a native of Switzerland born to German parents in Basel, Switzerland. He is known as a philosopher, metaphysician and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality.

Schuon is recognized as an authority on philosophy, spirituality and religion, an exponent of the Religio Perennis, and one of the chief representatives of the Perennialist School. Though he was not officially affiliated with the academic world, his writings have been noticed in scholarly and philosophical journals, and by scholars of comparative religion and spirituality. Criticism of the relativism of the modern academic world is one of the main aspects of Schuon's teachings. In his teachings, Schuon expresses his faith in an absolute principle, God, who governs the universe and to whom our souls would return after death. For Schuon the great revelations are the link between this absolute principle—God—and mankind. He wrote the main bulk of his metaphysical teachings in French. In the later years of his life Schuon composed some volumes of poetry in his mother tongue, German. His articles in French were collected in about twenty titles in French which were later translated into English as well as many other languages.

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Reviews

[Iohannes · Rating 2 out of 5]

quite a weak collection tbh; most of the time he is just whining that Christianity ain't platonism; altho the marian stuff was decent

[Hayk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely something you need to read and re-read to grasp fully.

[Ona Kiser · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book hit a thousands nails on the head for me. Refreshing, engaging, interesting. A nice overview of the hows and whys and wherefores of understanding Christianity esoterically (religion as a path of practice towards union with God, rather than an institution with a bunch of rules and dogma). Cross-references Sufism, Buddhism and Hinduism in pointing out common or distinct beliefs or practices in other traditional religions.