Glossary
The Spirit of Truth in Anthroposophy
The Spirit of Truth is the second half of a single movement. Christ frees the individual from the group; the Spirit of Truth gives the freed individual a way back...
The Crucifix as Christian Materialism in Anthro...
The crucifix as Christian materialism is not an argument against sacred art. It is Steiner's account of what one devotional image did to a faith. Once attention settled on the...
The God Who Learned Death in Anthroposophy
The God Who Learned Death names the asymmetry at the centre of Steiner's Christology: the old mysteries could reach gods who knew everything except dying. Death belonged to earth alone,...
The Son of God in Anthroposophy
The Son of God is the term Steiner took from esoteric usage for the being who builds the infant body from within. It is not a title reserved for Christ....
Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani in Anthroposophy
Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani are the words Matthew and Mark place on Christ's lips at the ninth hour. Steiner does not treat them as a collapse of faith. He treats...
Grace in Anthroposophy
Grace answers a question Steiner thought most modern readers had abandoned too quickly: why the Christian tradition pairs an unearned fall with an unearned rescue. He refused the theosophical shortcut...