Abstract
Abstract: The postmodern criticism and overcoming of the modern canons and concepts of rationality and science have paved the way to a systematic reconsideration of the nature and status of faith and religion in relation to human reason. The present article proposes to reassess the relationship tying Christianity to rationality through the study of the Christian notion of mystery, which, being fundamental to both Christian faith and theology, undergirds the definition and practice of Christian theology, faith, and love. The Christian God's self-revelation to human beings in history is shown to fully preserve the divine holiness and transcendence: God is incommensurable to creaturely reason out of an excess, infinitude of intelligibility. Called by God to enter in an immediate and intimate relationship with their Creator and Redeemer, Christian believers undertake, following Jesus Christ as a guide and model, a spiritual journey that leads them to transcend human language and concepts. Progressively opening themselves to an absolutely transcendent form of rationality identifying with the divine, Christians are by God interiorly transformed and enabled to directly experience him in and through love. The Christian notion of mystery characterizes human reason's fundamental rootedness in, orientation to, and insertion within supernatural, divine intelligibility and freedom. The latter, despite always being historically active and manifest, can never be fully fathomed and embraced by human cognition.
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