Prayer Fashions Man

by James S. Cutsinger

Prayer Fashions Man is the second in a new series of titles from World Wisdom featuring the essential writings of Frithjof Schuon. The series begun by The Fullness of God : Frithjof Schuon on Christianity (World Wisdom, 2004) continues, with a collection of Schuon’s chapters on the deep seated human need for prayer — our primary way of communing with the Divine. The book is edited by James Cutsinger, who also edited Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East (World Wisdom, 2002) and Not of This World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism (World Wisdom, 2003). Frithjof Schuon was widely acknowledged by many scholars of mysticism and comparative religion as the twentieth century’s foremost metaphysician and exponent of the Perennial Philosophy. More than a scholar, however, he was above all a man of prayer, whose fundamental message was always linked to the importance of our consciousness of God. This anthology selects chapters from Schuon’s published twenty-three books as well as pr