In The Relevance of Bernard Lonergans Notion of SelfAppropriation to a MysticalPolitical Theology Ian Bell takes on the issue of the separation of the interior and exterior lives that has come to dominate mystical theology over the years. The mystical life he claims is necessarily involved in the establishment of social structures and institutions that govern human living and the work of Bernard Lonergan on the human subject provides a means by which the connection between the interior and exterior lives may be established. Because human persons operate in a consistent pattern regardless of a given moments particularities mystical experience is no longer relegated to socalled spiritual matters and the insights of mystics may be applied to the Christian call to live as agents of love.