Articles by Fr Thomas Plant

Ordained in the Church of England, the Rev’d Dr Thomas Plant is now a priest of the Anglican Church in Japan and chaplain at Rikkyo (St Paul’s) University, Tokyo. He is the author of The Lost Way to the Good and writes on Christian Platonism, Japanese religion and the re-enchantment of the cosmos at frthomasplant.substack.com.

Why bother with Satanism?

“L’enfer, c’est les autres,” quipped Sartre. Christians disagree. Hell is to be alone, heaven to be with others in love. One might therefore expect Satanists, a contrary bunch, to disagree with the Christians as a matter of principle, and to seclude themselves in haughty isolation from the profanum vulgus. Such was the strategy of old-school…