
The central concern of this examination is to review religious thinker Rene Guenon’s early Roman Catholic influences and to explore how his Catholic writings can benefit contemporary Christian spirituality.
Guenon’s Early Catholic Influences
Although primarily known as a religious studies expositor whose corpus focuses on metaphysical similarities between seemingly mutually exclusive metaphysical belief systems, Rene Guenon (1886-1951) produced a wide range of articles focusing on purely Roman Catholic themes in several scholarly journals. This fact is often obscured by Guenon’s initial initiation into Sufism in 1912, and by his full embracing...