Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel-prize-winning Polish poet, once remarked that in his country (before he finally moved to America) people would say of some thinker that he had "fallen into mysticism," meaning he had become religious and, therefore, was no longer interesting.
Milsoz himself was a Catholic, though one unsettled by modern challenges to belief. But it's clear what he meant. Evangelicals have long lamented the "closing of the evangelical mind." Most Catholics don't pay attention to Catholic thought, and don't know that the Church embraces both faith and reason.
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