Telling about God. Experience (Vol. 2)

This second volume is entitled simply Experience, and that title calls for some explanation. Obviously, for the reasons which I shall set forth more fully in what follows, this volume does not contain Christian experience. This volume is meant to contribute to the second of three phases in a total process. The first phase is understanding to some degree the potential of Christian experience: volume I is intended to assist in reaching such an understanding should continue to deepen as we live more fully the life to which we have been called: we are in the process of a dialectic, personal and interpersonal which should continue as long as we live. The second phase is actual Christian experience, increasing in fullness and richness as we continue to live the Christian Mystery. This present volume is intended to foster such continuing experience. The third phase is the deepening understanding which theologians have sought in the classical tradition of faith seeking understanding. Within Christian experience, for those who reflect on the Mystery, many questions arise concerning the kind of God in whom we believe, and whom we experience. Search for the answers to such questions is the proper task of the theologian. I hope to attempt to perform that task in my third volume