Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Meditation ~ Mystics and Scholastics

On the one hand, as Catholics we have sensual art, smells and bells, provocative Gregorian chant, etc. On the other, we are the faith tradition that produced the intellectualism of the scholastics.

In a unique way, our faith preserves the right relationship between:

1) A transcendent God who surpasses our understanding, and is the object of our desires

2) A transcendent God who created our human reasoning as a participation in His own, such that we can be both mystical and "logical" at the same time.

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