Spiritual Science in the Third Millennium

Until now, academia has largely ignored 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 United State—was published by a respected German academic press. Taking this concrete case as an illustration, Pietro Archiati asserts that academia, with its inherent bias toward atheistic assumptions of materialistic science, will almost inevitably misrepresent Steiner’s work. Anthroposophy is a spiritual science, whose transforming nature requires a deep understanding of its essence for real comprehension. Presenting a broad exploration of the critical questions outlined here, 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 anthroposophic methodology and thought.