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Centurie on Mystical Theology

Jeudi 12 juin 2008 4 12 /06 /2008 08:57


 
The  mystical theology, as we said, has its deep source in the Tradition, which is to say in the mystery of the divine filiation which Jesus gives us to participate. 
He is the Son Of-Liked of the Father, the Only-One Born from Him, as we sing in the second antienne of the Holy Liturgy of St. John Chrysostome, each Sunday :
"Ô Son Unique and Verb (Word) of God, Thee the immortal, wich for our salvation has deigned take flesh of the Holy Mother of God and always Virgin Mary, Thee who without change became a man, Thee Christ God, Thee who have been crucified and by the death has wrestled death, Thee the One of the Holy Trinity, glorified with Father and the Holy Spirit, saves us"

The mystical theology consists in the deep knowledge of the Verb (Logos, Word of God) made flesh.This knowledge cannot be realized without a personal meeting with Him. It is here that we find the foundation of mystical theology, experience radical to which the theologien must continually return if he does not want to become a cymbal resounding which, certainly, can do a lot of noise but not good spiritual fruit.
The mystical experience begins with the personal meeting of Christ, the discovery of his Holy Face and the desire to enter in a real friendship with Him. This man-God, Jesus, begins to capture our eyes, to attract our attention, and our heart :  "He is". Here, it must insist on this "He is". That is the discovery, the "touch" of the humanity fantastically perfect of Christ and by this way the feeling of his divinity.
Jesus himself will tell us : "If you do not believe me that I Am, you will die in your sins ". The discovery (or rather the Revelation) of the " I Am " of Christ, in our hearts and our intelligence, evokes the contemplative dimension of our "Noûs" ( our contemplative intelligence in greek) and plunging us into a sense of awe and adoration.
Consequently, our relationship with Christ exchange in depth. He is not only  an exceptional man. He is not only a sublime man. He is my God and He is my brother in humanity as He became a man, a man like me. He is the Verb of God(Logos in greek) became flesh.
When the Philosopher Aristotle talks about the First Being, he shows that there are between the man and the God such a distance that friendship is impossible. The friendship calls for a certain equality. Certainly the God is not indifferent to men, and Aristotle is convinced that He has a small preference for men the most contemplatifs... There is a natural love of contemplative for this First Being, whose smaller knowledge is better than the knowledge the richest and most perfect of another reality. But this love cannot be achieved in a friendship.
The Christ transforms the relationship to God in a radical, prodigious! Now the Verb made flesh, without cease to be God becomes man and friendship divine is proposed to men. This friendship experienced of each of us with Jesus is itself the christian mystical experience. You understand that I am not speaking of mystical phenomena, charisms individuals... The mystical experience is fundamentally, radically, the mystery of friendship with divine Jesus lived fully under the breath of the Holy Spirit.

Par Frédéric Tavernier Vellas - Publié dans : Centurie on Mystical Theology
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Mardi 10 juin 2008 2 10 /06 /2008 15:43
Many are wondering about the nature of the Mystical Theology, his place in the Wisdom Theological, its content, its development, its internal order. We will spend hundred articles on this subject that will be developed in the corresponding category "Centuries on Mystical Theology".
This introduction will allow us to locate the place of Theology Mystical in the framework, more extensive, of the Orthodox Theology and, hopefully, to clarify a little what represents this "summit" of the Christian Theology for those who are interested.
The Christian Theology whose Source is the Tradition (Teaching of God the Father forwarded to his Son Of-liked, Jesus Christ, and received first by the Mother of God, the apostles, the saints and the Church) is both a science and wisdom.
The knowledge of the mysteries received in the faith has a radical unit. That is the Father who teaches us. When Pierre proclaims his faith in Jesus, the Christ replied: "Blessed art thou Simon Son of Jonah, because this is not the flesh and blood thee revealed that, but it is my Father in Heaven ".
On many occasions, Jesus teaching recalls that his doctrine does not come from Him, but from the Father who sent him.
The Theology owns its unity of this unity of the Source of Revelation, the Source of the Tradition, the mystery of the Father.
This Revelation's sole purpose of making us participants of the Blessed Life of Three divine Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Any Christian Theology must therefore be moving toward the Mystery of this trinitarian communion, the mystery of our divinisation for which the Christ became flesh, died for us, is resurrected the third day.
However, the Revelation as education or doctrine has been done in a human language. The Christ preached, taught in the synagogues and the Temple of Jerusalem or even on the assembly... He spoke with the human words, employee of symbolism borrowed from the world that we know, spoke in parables or in a more didactic way.
He often commented on the texts of the Old Testament in giving them a new light. The Christ is therefore addressed to the intelligence of his listeners an appeal to their ability to understand, to their desire to know, and he has chosen evangelists, the apostles to pass his education to all nations.
The Revelation is the meeting between an education (doctrine, teaching, which is not from the flesh and blood) and the intelligence of the auditors. This teaching exceeds what human persons have in their intelligence. It is superior to the human intellectual light. This human intelligence, certainly, is able to go very far and even to be open to the contemplation of a First Being, we see this among Aristotle. It can reach a certain human wisdom, and contemplative practice. But what the Christ a taught, no human intelligence could have discovered by itself and no one cannot by its own forces the check.
That is why the Christian Theology is essentially a negative theology. The mistake the more serious in Western theology after the great period of the Fathers of the Church is to imagine that there are two forms of theology :   cataphatique and apophatique. The first one could be considered as scientific (developped in a rationnal way), the second one more affective... reserved for mystic persons...The first express a "positive speech" on God, the second would be more mystical and eventually deny everything that has been said to finally enter into a contemplative dimension! It is a serious mistake, and we must denounce because it introduces a kind of division in the Theology and breaks his unit radical.
Any theology is negative, and also for philosophical approach as we can see in the approach of the natural wisdom of Aristotle in contemplation of the First Being wich is "Ousia" and "Energeia" pure (Substance and Act pure) because the contemplation of this First Being discovered by the path of philosophy first provides no experience and no seizure quidditative of what He is.
This way apophatic remains yet in the teaching of Thomas Aquinas, that his followers have often betrayed by reducing its effort contemplative in an effort to build a rational system. In Thomas Aquinas, the way to the contemplation of the Eminence of the First Being is only the fruit of the negative way.
We just can draw near to God with our intelligence in the negative perspective : " how It is not ". It is to say in the approaching of back and not to face! 
The Ousia of God we remains hidden, inaccessible. Let it for the moment.
The Christian Theology is therefore a Theology negative. The teaching doctrinal of Christ dont brings to us new concepts, he not give us a new rational system, philosophical again. It gives us to put ourselves in the school of Father who gives us his Son and send us the Holy Spirit.
But if the Source of Theology is One, its development and its contents are such that they will involve a great diversity of gaze.
Let us understand that the Simplicity of the Uni-Trinity is a simplicity that eludes us radically. Just think that God, also knows all his Made (the Creation Visible and Invisible) in one eye ! Consider that eternity envelope the Time and that what we see unfold before us is embraced in a only review by the Most Holy Trinity.If you do not understand, is that you start to enter an attitude apophatique! Who knows what the Eternity?
The Evangelists have given us the Theology in its Source and the Fathers have continued to develop the content of this divine teaching for us. We see that our knowledge of God is based on the analogic knowledge. But faith is more than an analogic knowledge. The faith is the communion in the Wisdom of Christ.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Epîtres of Paul and James show us the mystery of Christ in different perspectives etc. We see this diversity of gaze on the Christ by the Four Live : the Lion, the Bull, the Face of Man and the Eagle. It is not so easy to understand the Christ. It is already not easy to understand a man, but the divino-humanity of Jesus made him even more difficult to discover . To enter in this communion of faith, we need the action of the Holy Spirit.
The theology will use a diversity of gaze : The biblical theology look at the development of the Revelation through the sacred texts. The dogmatic theology or "scientific" highlights everything that the intelligence can bring in terms of the Intelligibility, of dogma, we use the more intellectual analogies. Theology of the Economy divine look at the Plan of God, his conduct on the Humanity, on the Church. The theology mystical considers the mystery of our Christo-conformation. That is the Summit of the entire Theology because Christ in his Person (human and divin together) becomes the Light of our whole life. That is the Knowledge-Communion of Father and Son talking about St. John in his First Epître. Here we use all the analogies and especially the more sensibles. 
With the theology of the liturgy we enter in the mysteries of faith through education by the Liturgy (especially the Holy Liturgy) that gives us the Church. It involves strongly the elements of the mystical theology. The theology called fundamental (especially developed in the West) is a kind of reflection "critical" of Theology on itself. The exegesis  can be develop without the faith and cannot claim the status of Theology. It is an element philologico-historical, a tool that can gives to the theologian interesting elements but does not belong to the Theology as such.
Par Frédéric Tavernier Vellas - Publié dans : Centurie on Mystical Theology
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