On the Mundanity of Learning vis-à-vis the Humanity of Christ

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Genuine learning is much more tedious and mundane than many would like to think. In the tedium of the process exciting horizons and ideas confront the learner in the types of ways that only time and commitment can bring to fruit. Genuine learning leads to further learning, and is a never-ending process. There are peak moments along the way, but those moments are never (or should never be) an end in themselves.

As a Christian, learning is in fact what eternal life is all about. “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (Jn 17:3). Christian learning is an embodied knowledge compelled by a heart set aflame by the love of Christ. Its inner reality is being in relationship with the triune God; participant in the interpenetrating and eternal interchange between the Father in the Son, the Son in the Father, by the Holy Spirit’s bondage of love. This is the Christian’s school of faith wherein there are peace and joy forevermore in the knowledge and presence of the triune God. So, genuine learning, for the Christian in particular, while in these bodies of death (see Rm 7), entails what might seem tedious and mundane; but no more so, than the veiled Godness of the living God in the everyday humanity of Jesus Christ for us.

4 thoughts on “On the Mundanity of Learning vis-à-vis the Humanity of Christ”

  1. “Christian learning is an embodied knowledge compelled by a heart set aflame by the love of Christ. Its inner reality is being in relationship with the triune God; participant in the interpenetrating and eternal interchange between the Father in the Son, the Son in the Father, by the Holy Spirit’s bondage of love. This is the Christian’s school of faith wherein there are peace and joy forevermore in the knowledge and presence of the triune God.”

    Emet!… and amen.


  3. Well said. To this excellent thought there’s the counterpoint of Christ himself, in his full humanity, using his faculties to learn, just as we do, basics like: language, and movement of body, as well as the higher abstract ideas of: love, light, hope, eternity, as well as pain, sin and destruction. e.g. Hebrews 5:8

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