Reading from Eckhart is most exhilarating! Definitely neoplatonic, as most commentators indicate. There is by way of analogy some similarity with Rahnerian thought of which I will one day comment. I cannot help but wonder how Vedantic traditions would have influenced his thought, were they accessible at the time. Without a doubt he would have taken an interest and worked something of their beauty into his system. The Church will always need such leading edge thinkers who are not mere rational intellectuals but individuals steeped in a deep interior spirituality, what Wilber calls trans-rational experience. Rahner was just such a one. It is difficult to read him carefully without realizing this is no mere intellectual but a mystic in the truest sense of the word. It is such that is lacking among the pastors of the many Christian traditions, including my own Catholic tradition. Without a vital living practice that touches on real experience of the Divine Mystery within us, one relies more and more on externals of the tradition and bits and pieces one picks up from workshops and seminars and an occasional book that mostly confirms the status quo rather than offering a truly living word born of interiority and encounter with the Mystery within that surpasses all external wisdom born of the mind alone. How can we speak of that which we do not in some way truly know, knowledge being a unity between the knower and the known?
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:15:08 +0000
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