by David Torkington | Apr 13, 2022 | Mystical Theology
I was hardly out of my pram when World War II began. I may not have any war wounds to brag about but I do have memories, terrible memories of the fear that gripped me when the sirens began to whine. I would hear the planes and the rockets overhead and the sound of the...
by David Torkington | Mar 28, 2016 | Mystical Theology
The Resurrection, means that Jesus has been swept up out of the world of space and time in which he’d lived before, not to leave us alone, but to be closer to us than ever before, and as he promised ‘even to the end of time.’ Before the Resurrection Jesus was...
by David Torkington | Feb 27, 2015 | Mystical Theology
When he was only twenty eight, the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was, condemned to death. It was the spring of 1849. He was condemned for reading ‘subversive literature and frequenting suspect gatherings of anarchists’. There was nothing in these charges, but at...
by David Torkington | May 1, 2014 | Mystical Theology
I’d always been ready to poke fun at the culture-vultures who were bussed into Florence to ‘do the city’ in a single day until I found myself in a far worse predicament. I had but three hours in which ‘to do’ the same city while awaiting...
by David Torkington | Apr 20, 2014 | Mystical Theology
The Resurrection pinpoints the moment in time when Christ is so possessed by Love, that he is raised up outside of time into a new form of existence, beyond all the laws and limitations of the space-and-time world to which we belong, and into which he was born. Before...