Glossary
Scholasticism in Anthroposophy
Scholasticism is the medieval Christian thought-movement of the cathedral schools and the Dominican Order, the rigorous training in Aristotelian logic that ran from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. Rudolf...
Parsifal in Anthroposophy
Parsifal is the young, untutored knight at the centre of the medieval Grail legend whom Rudolf Steiner treated as a soul-portrait, the fool whose pure, questioning heart opens the way...
Amfortas in Anthroposophy
Amfortas is the wounded Fisher King of the Grail saga, the appointed Guardian of the Holy Grail whose wound will not heal. In Rudolf Steiner's reading he stands at the...
The Seven I AM Sayings in Anthroposophy
The Seven I AM Sayings are the moments in the Gospel of St John when the Christ joins the words "I am" to an image, such as the light of...
The Logos in Anthroposophy
The Logos is Rudolf Steiner's name for the cosmic creative Word that the Gospel of St John places at the beginning of existence. In his 1908 Hamburg lectures Steiner reads...
The Gospel of Matthew in Anthroposophy
Among the four Gospels, Steiner held that the Gospel of Matthew is the most human document of them all. It does not raise the reader's eyes to the Logos, as...