Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. 
Grace can and does have a history.
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics. 