Philosophy and Theology

Volume 21, Issue 1/2, 2009

Living with the Mystery

Philosophy develops the direction towards the Whole opened up by the Notion of Being that makes the mind to be a mind. It is grounded in awe that can increase as inquiry continues, though it tends to fall back into the routines of its exercise, like every other human activity. In a time when it is common to think of ourselves as just another combination of elements in the evolutionary universe, reflection upon our own awareness turns the tables on materialists by re-minding the earliest phases called “mere matter” and setting the cosmos back into the encompassing realm of absolute Mystery.