Getting Our Spiritual Foundations Right
Before the heresy of Quietism, Systematic Theology—which taught how to come to know God with the mind—and Mystical Theology—which taught how to come to love God with the heart—were complementary to each other. After the condemnation of Quietism, however, Mystical Theology mostly disappeared. As the historian Msgr. Philip Hughes pointed out, it was replaced by Moral Theology…