My priest has been pointing me to wonderful audio interviews on various topics lately. This one, for example, is titled the Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong:
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/armstrong/lists.shtml
I'm still listening to the interview, but I think Karen may tap into the key to mystagogia. She speaks of the study of religion as requiring a "science of compassion", meaning a search for knowledge through 'feeling with'.
She also says that theology is poetry, religion is art, and ritual leads to transcendence.
Lovely stuff...
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