Call of Lay People to the Mystical Life
The subject of this article is the call of lay people to the mystical life. The topic under consideration indicates two poles, around which the main re fl ection revolves: the mystic and the lay state of life. The call of lay people to mysticism is not just a hypothesis,...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
| Published: |
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Press
2011-09-01
|
| Series: | The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/857/750 |
| Summary: | The subject of this article is the call of lay people to the mystical life. The
topic under consideration indicates two poles, around which the main re
fl
ection
revolves: the mystic and the lay state of life. The call of lay people to mysticism
is not just a hypothesis, but a real experience, researched and decribed by
theologians. So re
fl
ecting on the call to the mystic life
of lay people
is not so
much a matter of ‘whether’, but of ‘how’. In the light of the above, four issues
are
fundamental: the impossibility to provoke the mystical experience, its dependence
on the spirituality of the baptism, the relation of contemplation to action and the
relation to the world. It occurs however, that every Christian, together with God’s
life of grace bestowed in baptism, receives the basis for the mystical life. Neither
an active life in the world, nor work or marriage, hinders the development of this
gift. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2083-8018 2391-6559 |