The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. - Karl Rahner

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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

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Future, Will, Christian, Exist, Mystic, He

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Thomas Aquinas, Albert Schweitzer, John Calvin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Oswald Chambers, Paul Tillich, Ernest Holmes, William Barclay

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German - Theologian March 5, 1904 - March 30, 1984

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