New knowledge should be accompanied by a renewed life, which reopens our closed horizons. Therefore the ancient Church regarded conversion to the faith as a positively intellectual journey, in which man is confronted with the “doctrine of the truth” and its arguments, but in which he also acquires a new life companionship, in which new experiences and interior progress become possible for him. New forms of the catechumenate are urgently needed particularly in our time. The way of knowledge that leads to God and to Christ is a way of living. In biblical language: in order to know Christ, it is
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