Abstrakt: | Presented article draws attention to the person of German theologian Karl
Rahner, considerated being a „theologist of Mystery”. All Rahner’s theology has an
exceptional, mistical character, but in the same way it contains the mystique which
could be practised by anybody. The keystone of mystagogy proposed by German
jesuit is an autenticall, original meeting between human being and God, named an
transcendental experience, in which the human person enters into communication
with God as a absolute Mystery. This meeting foreruns an reflexioned attitude to
the experience of God, which results – on the intellectual level – with arguments of
existence of God.
Rahner talks about mystagogy, or mystique of ever-day reality. God is present
in quotidian life of human beings as an infinity proposition, unstated love, absolute
future. Real encounter with God couldn’t be limited to the practice of sacraments. It
is also possible out of ecclesiastical structures – in life’s pain, in experience of hope,
responsibility, love and death. First part of this article contains a short advisement
about the Rahner’s definition of mistagogy. Second part of the text describes two
necessary conditions of understanding Karl Rahner’s concept of mistagogy. In the
third part of this work the reader can find the description of all mystagogical process
by Rahner. |