Christian mystics down through the centuries have attempted to describe their inner experiences with God as "dazzling darkness," "brightness of most lucid darkness," "teeming desert." Father Maloney uses the theme of bright darkness to present Jesus Christ to modern readers hungry to meet Him in a prayerful experience. Jesus is divine and human, God and man, yet the prayerful experience of Jesus is an approach that brings together in paradoxical fashion, without separating, His dual natures.
Jesus is the perfect human but grows into that perfection through His life situations. He strives through the catalyst of obedient love to His Father to surrender to the Holy Spirit to reach an integration of His unconscious with His consciousness, the feminine and the masculine, the dark potential of gentle receptivity and the aggressive light of conscious power.