Why Future Christians Will Be Mystics

By: Guy Sayles

For many years now, I've had a growing conviction that the great Catholic theologian Karl Rahner was right to have claimed: "The Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at all." He meant that people will either have a dynamic, immediate and experiential relationship with God, or they will be bereft of faith. Faith will either affect ordinary awareness, create new ways of living and energize every dimension of life, or it will be formulaic, superficial and empty. [Read more] ...