Westminster Abbey Institute lecture: Mystery and Play, God in Mysticism and Post-Modernity

Vernon White, Canon Theologian. To hold together experiences of a personal God with concepts of an infinite and eternal God can lead to intellectual and imaginative paralysis. The puzzling and fragmented life we experience in late-modernity can do the same. Christian tradition has always acknowledged this as a necessary mystery. This final lecture explored how understanding of God, and our experience of God, must embrace such mystery. 

Duration: 52:02 mins | File size 49.2 MB

Read the lecture transcript (PDF, 187 KB)