Tag Archives | Karl Rahner

Christian Mysticism Class at Evening at Emory begins October 13

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There’s still time to register for the Introduction to Christian Mysticism class being offered through the Evening at Emory program. Continuing education credit is available for this 5-week class. To register, click here. Here’s the course description from the Emory website: Introduction to Christian Mysticism Evening at EmoryHumanities and Cultural Studies The renowned twentieth century [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 3, 2011

“Eleven years of Catholic education had told me nothing about Christian meditation.”

By in Christianity, Contemplation, Meditation, Mysticism, Spirituality

Here’s an interesting article published the other day in the Utah Statesman by a fellow named Michael Sowder: Finding Home in India. The author tells the story of his spiritual journey, and it’s a story I’ve heard again and again. Basically, it runs like this: born into a Christian family, Sowder (and countless others like [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · September 15, 2011

Quote for the Day

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People in the postmodern era have lost confidence in the idea of perpetual progress advanced by the sciences and technology. They have become distrustful of and disenchanted with authority, which includes that of the church. They value experience over against outside authority, a faith based on experience over against one that is ecclesiastically pre-formulated, and [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 13, 2011

Quote for the Day

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Only in love can I find You, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which makes me a prisoner [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 29, 2010

The Hidden Tradition of Christian Mysticism

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This is an article I wrote for the summer 2010 issue of Evolve! magazine. Karl Rahner, one of the most renowned Christian theologians of the twentieth century, once famously remarked that “the Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at all.” For people whose experience of Christianity is, often, little [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · September 5, 2010

“Ordinary Mysticism”

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A quote from The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: Mysticism can best be understood in an egalitarian and inclusive way… you don’t have to have supernatural experiences in order to be a mystic; therefore, everyone is called, if not to a life of extraordinary phenomena, then at least to the “ordinary mysticism” of the contemplative [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 26, 2010

A bookmark for you (and your friends)…

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To help promote The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, I have had some bookmarks printed up. As you can see, they feature the cover design of the book, along with a few interesting quotations from St. Francis de Sales, St. Catherine of Siena, and Karl Rahner, SJ. On the back of the bookmark are blurbs [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 13, 2010