Author : Philip Krill
Release : 2016-02-01
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Book Synopsis Deified Vision by : Philip Krill
Download or read book Deified Vision written by Philip Krill. This book was released on 2016-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEIFIED VISION: TOWARDS AN ANAGOGICAL CATHOLICISM is an attempt at activating an "anagogical imagination." It requires of us that we pray for a share in God's own contemplation of the world; that well allow our imaginations get "lifted up" into His own; that we desire to receive, through the illumination of His Holy Spirit, a participation in His own love and desire for all He has created. One author has called this process 'acquiring an "epistemic participation" in the Mind of Christ.'This book is a modest attempt to coax us in the direction of authentic spiritual renewal. All things begin and end with the Trinity. Contemplating Life in the Trinity is the indispensable key for acquiring new life in the Church and in our own individual lives. There is no life in Christ apart from ecclesial existence in His Church, and there is no life in the Church until we experience it as a Trinitarian encounter with the Father, through the Son, and in the Holy Spirit.If this language about an 'anagogical imagination' sounds strange or convoluted it is because our own sacramental and ecclesial vision has atrophied. The Church must learn to breathe again with both lungs, as Pope John Paul II, was fond of saying. By this he meant with both the Eastern and Western Catholic traditions of mystical and contemplative reflection on the Mysteries of our Faith.The outline of this book is thoroughly and unapologetically Trinitarian, with an emphasis on Anagogy. It follows, in a general way, the outline of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It treats of Creed (Dogma), Cult (Liturgy), and Code (Ethics). But it does so with an eye to the anagogical mysteries of Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension.