the
most
important
question
of
all
remains
unanswered:
For
Mechthild,
why
does
union
with
the
Godhead,
the
only
One
who
is
able
to
comfort
and complete
the
soul,
produce
wounding
and
pain?
Certainly,
room
must
be
made
for
the
emphasis
of
medieval
scholasticism
upon
God
as
Wholly
Other
and
the
Aristotelian
notion
of
pain
as
the
aspect
of
bodily
existence
that
is
most
intimately
human.33
But,
for
many,
especially
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