Pope John Paul II, deeply influenced by his personal spirituality and theological formation, held mystical theology in high regard as a vital dimension of Christian life.
Great to see an exposition of John Paul II’s mystical theology. It breathes incarnational mysticism, the raw truth that God is revealed not in escape from flesh, but through it. The Word made flesh… divinity etched into sinew, sweat, and saliva. For him, the Eucharist is the consummation of this mystery. God not just contemplated, but consumed, His presence metabolized into our very cells.
This is no abstract spirituality. Incarnational mysticism demands we meet God in the grit of existence: in labor, in love, in suffering. Holiness, then, is not transcendence of the body, but its sanctification. Every moment becomes sacramental, charged with the nearness of a God who chose to be touched. Yet this mysticism remains Christocentric, an insistence on particularity. The infinite dwells in a specific body, a specific death, a specific resurrection. To kneel before this mystery is to embrace a God who refuses to be anything but here, now, flesh.
Great to see an exposition of John Paul II’s mystical theology. It breathes incarnational mysticism, the raw truth that God is revealed not in escape from flesh, but through it. The Word made flesh… divinity etched into sinew, sweat, and saliva. For him, the Eucharist is the consummation of this mystery. God not just contemplated, but consumed, His presence metabolized into our very cells.
This is no abstract spirituality. Incarnational mysticism demands we meet God in the grit of existence: in labor, in love, in suffering. Holiness, then, is not transcendence of the body, but its sanctification. Every moment becomes sacramental, charged with the nearness of a God who chose to be touched. Yet this mysticism remains Christocentric, an insistence on particularity. The infinite dwells in a specific body, a specific death, a specific resurrection. To kneel before this mystery is to embrace a God who refuses to be anything but here, now, flesh.