This may sound way too mystical for your persuasion, but to put all my cards on the table, I’m with the theologian Karl Rahner, who said, “The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”[44] You know why I think he’s right? Because the Christian of the past was a mystic. And if we don’t recapture contemplation, we “will not exist at all” in the corrosive soil of the secular West.
Mystic: a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect
