Word: mysterium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is further evidence for the opinion that Paul's theological touch is a little uncertain. While no theologian questions Paul's defense of the Eucharistic real presence in Mysterium Fidei some argue that the Pope's incidental defense of such practices as adoration t the blessed sacrament and Benediction runs counter to the theology of the council's liturgical constitution, which emphasizes that the central place of the Eucharist is only in the communal meal that is the Mass. Even more questionable to some theologians is the encyclical's assumption that the language in which a church dogma...
What does he see on Cordelia's lips? We don't know. For us, as for John Henry Newman, "Omnia exeunt in mysterium." But for Lear, the ultimate question is answered, and the answer comes as a sudden flash of enlightenment analogous to the Buddhists' satorl. This ecstatic discovery is what Lear should convey to us in his last two lines...
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