Sensing the Sacred

"""Deeply rooted in patristic mystagogy, Hanna Lucas constructs a theology of learning that guides our faculties to receive God. Sensing the Sacred wisely counsels a return to an approach that integrates all learning--sensible, rational, and spiritual--into a unified process of capacitation for union with God. Teachers in every discipline, therefore, do well to heed Lucas's salutary appeal for a return to mystery."" --Hans Boersma, chair in ascetical theology, Nashotah House Theological Seminary ""I have sitting before me the classic beauty on love and learning by Jean Leclercq, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. This bounty of a book by Hanna Lucas, Sensing the Sacred, walks Leclercq to yet deeper and fuller places, a vision of the mystagogical tradition at the core of salvation knowledge. Lucas has made deep dives and recovered many a priceless pearl--do read and inwardly digest soul nourishment of the highest level."" --Ron Dart, associate professor of political science, University of the Fraser Valley ""Hanna Lucas combines deep engagement with Latin, Greek, and Syriac mystagogical texts with a broad, enthusiastic, and constructive theological vision. What she develops in this volume is both a rich retrieval and a bold development of a theology of learning."" --Karen Kilby, professor of Catholic theology, University of Durham"