Looking towards the future, the great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner suggested that all Christians would have to become mystics if their faith was to continue to have anything to offer the world. By this he meant not that they would have to be constantly hearing supernatural voices or seeing heavenly visions, but that they would need to be able to present a faith rooted in their personal experience of God rather than simply repeating and relying upon doctrinal formulae that they had received. Of course, trying to articulate your own experience in the light of that of others is a more challenging task than simply passing on time-worn formulations. But, crucially, doing so may well be the only effective way to convince an age that respects the witness of life much more than it does abstract teaching.
£3.00
0