Can there be such a thing as spiritual science today? Should faith
and spirit remain as purely private concerns - or, as
traditionally, preserves of the Church? When Rudolf Steiner founded
anthroposophy in the early twentieth century, his intention was to
create a fundamentally scientific approach to the spirit. His basic
works detail methods for developing spiritual consciousness,
allowing the individual to replicate the results of his research.
This key aspect distinguishes anthroposophy from the wealth of
spiritual teachings, sects, cults and religions within the modern
cultural milieu. But did Steiner fail in his endeavour to build a
scientific path to spiritual knowledge? Is anthroposophy just
another 'theory' based on intellectual thought, to be analysed and
dismissed? Up to now, academia has largely ignored Rudolf Steiner's
work. In 2013, however, the first volume of a new series - a
critical edition of Rudolf Steiner's writings, edited by a
professor of the largest religious university in the USA - was
published by a respected German academic press.Taking this concrete
case as an illustration, Pietro Archiati argues that academia, with
its in-built bias towards the atheistic assumptions of
materialistic science, will almost inevitably misrepresent
Steiner's work. Anthroposophy is a spiritual science, whose
metamorphosing nature requires penetration of its essence for true
understanding. Presenting a broad exploration of the critical
questions outlined above, Archiati's exposition works not only as a
critique of a specific new edition of Steiner's works, but also as
an introduction to key tenets of anthroposophical methodology and
thought. 'When, in the case of a flower, the coloured blossom
appears, this does not come as a correction of a faulty green leaf.
It is, on the contrary, a further metamorphosis of the plant,
which, without the existence of the green leaf, would not have been
able to arise. Rudolf Steiner was always comparing the arising of
his spiritual science with the evolution of a living organism.' -
Pietro Archiati
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