Ascetical Theology is study of the ordinary ways we human beings can deepen our relationship to God by the graces and gifts God gives us human beings without a particular revelation of presence of the Divine.[1] But special revelations of the Divine have been experienced since the time of the New Testament. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church tells us, “There are passages in St. John’s Gospel, St. Paul’s Epistles, and the Book of Revelation which mark their authors as having personally enjoyed mystical experience.”[2]
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