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mysticism and the Holy Trinity

“Christian mysticism, grounded in the trinitarian understanding of God, fosters an openness to receive the gift of divine union that overflows from the loving relationships found within the Trinity. The union of God and God’s beloved creation, as understood in the Christian faith, is actually a communion, in which we are invited into the loving unity with the Spirit, with Christ, and, through them, with the infinite mystery of the infinite Creator–the fullness of the one triune God.”

McColman, Carl. The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism : an Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality. Minneapolis : Broadleaf Books, 2023, p. 141.

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the flight

“Paradoxical as it may seem, for Christians the flight of the alone to the Alone must also be understood as a flight of the community to the Trinity.”

McColman, Carl. The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism : an Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality. Minneapolis : Broadleaf Books, 2023, p. 139

Comment: I think what this means is that he considers the ancient description of the contemplative life (‘flight of the alone to the Alone’) still to be true. Plus, it is also true that the same contemplative life can be described as a flight of the community of believers to the community of the three persons of the Holy Trinity.