Aspects Of Mystagogy

Now for the book’s concerns; pages 22 to 40:

There has been a 1200-year schism between theology
and experience. Everybody hitched their scientific and
religious wagons to the bright star of the Rational En-
lightenment and only knowledge of God was left –
experience was exiled.

- Now I know who to hate and blame for my dreary youth
where ice-cold knowledge of God, human invention and
liturgy, provided no succour in dealing with an incom-
prehensible, ugly, loveless world! -

David Regan explains how the church slowly realized
how irrelevant it has become in a world where
experience is deemed more important
than blind obedience.

He proposes the church hi-jacks all positive secular
movements, from Green Peace to Minority Rights,
and classify them under the following headings:

Unfolding Mystery Of Christ’s World Redemption

Revelation Of God’s Infinite Love

Experience Of God’s Workings

Aspects Of Mystagogy

Works Of The Spirit

Thus the church can claim credit for ALL things good-
does not matter who accomplished what; describing
everything prosperous as the work of God’s spirit
in God’s vineyard

All community service called fulfillment of God’s will,
all experience seen as part of Christ’s suffering on
the cross

THIS is how humankind creates gods, religions,
terminology and organisations that form the
view, perspective and lives of populations
and civilisations

Obtaining power to govern, guide and use them
for their own ends – another Pope to be crowned
as god’s representative on earth – especially
owner of all its riches...

I think I will not become a mystagogue at all, but
remain an undercover agent seeking the
spiritual...

David Regan “Experience The Mystery”
Geoffrey Chapman, London, 1994