re MDDM 35 Christ and History

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Terrance wrote:

> A is one of those men who makes most others look like dwarfs, as Newton
> does. No other man has done more to construct and to authorize the
> Church than A,  but he is
> also the father of Catholic Mysticism. Yes! This man of iron dogma and
> authority was a mystic. 

So the contradiction between Christ as origin and goal of History
(dogma) and Christ as ahistorical (mysticism) has been there right from
the
beginning?

Thomas