The medieval man meant the experience of journeying on the earth today in an intense spirituality of unknown dimension. Sun had the pilgrims a marked law enforcement mentality to be on the way to God. Urges pilgrims meant the creation of continuous sensory experiences and impressions and to be able to learn to do. God's creation is given. She shares her flesh with every step. walking was reported since the Middle Ages to the devotional form
Reinhold Messner in 1997 that he prays while walking. The walking also offers him a dialogue with creation, on the road in the Himalayas or in the Arctic. A very specific duplication of mental and physical Geherfahrung. The author Rolf Legler verdict in his book on St. James, that many people today are in the truest sense of the word strayed so far from the way that the knowledge they gain easy walking can not perceive.
An important factor is the very spirituality of the road, which only tells the sensual, who also refers to itself. With each step of the pilgrim experiences the Zeithaltigkeit for the pilgrimage and its Effort. Thus, the use changed over time. The road changes people when they trust in him.
"Wherever I go - you know the way there. I am the way" (Jn 14.4-6)
The theological embossed "life as a pilgrimage"
The concept of time-bound one and removes the human way there, go to the Saint. Augustine returned. Models for a decision on pilgrimage deliver the Old and New Testament. But the compound of example is Jesus Christ himself, he remained a stranger on earth, only in obedience to God he is temporarily the earthlings. His empire is not of this world. In the enactment of the Gospel and the man is a stranger in this world. For earthly pilgrimage.
pilgrims are those who long for the sky. On the way to his soul as the practice of healing. To gain an authentic sense of the transience of all earthly things in life. Within the known conclusion (Paul), that the whole Christian life is itself a single pilgrimage on earth.
