%0 Journal Article %1 blackwood_elements_2011 %A Blackwood, Jeremy W. %D 2011 %J Irish Theological Quarterly %K 2011_2 ByzZ Makarios-Symeon Mystik %N 4 %P 339 --356 %R 10.1177/0021140011416284 %T Elements of a Methodical Understanding of Eastern Christian Mysticism %U http://itq.sagepub.com/content/76/4/339.abstract %V 76 %X Christian mystical writing expresses symbolically the complexities of conscious experience identified by Bernard Lonergan as ‘differentiations of consciousness.’ In order for the insights of such literature to penetrate theoretic systematic theology, there must be effected a theoretic account of conscious experience that is of sufficient depth to account for the differentiations witnessed to by mystical writing. This article attempts a preliminary step in this direction by taking key elements of the Macarian Homilies as pointers to further areas requiring systematic theoretic development. Building on the suggestions of three scholars working within a Lonergan-grounded horizon, this article articulates a theory of the divinely enraptured subject as revelatory and suggests that such a position is a theoretic account of the symbolically-expressed grasp of conscious experience articulated in the Macarian Homilies.

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