Prisca Theologia

Notes on religious pluralism, the “perennialists,” and Francis X. Clooney’s “slow reading”

[I have been asked many times about my religiously “syncretistic” habits of thought, and why despite those habits I dissociate myself entirely from the “perennialist” school, and why I choose to speak of a prisca theologia when discussing the commonalities between faiths rather than of a philosophia perennis. I have decided to provide these notes as a k…