Discernment and Truth: Meditiations on the Christian Life of Contemplation and Practice
Drawing from the wisdom of major writers and theologians, preeminent theologian Mark A. McIntosh investigates the themes central to Christian discernment, including practice and theory, the Trinity, and the corporate character of the Christian life. Topics include: faith; illumination; impulses; divine will; discretion; contemplative grounding; active practice.
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McIntosh, the leading Episcopal theologian in the U.S., gives us meditative reflections on Christian discernment as a practice and a way of life.
AcknowledgementsPreface1Introduction : the pattern of a discerning life32The historical landscape of discernment : Christian antiquity233The historical landscape of discernment : middle ages to modernity434Constitutive themes in discernment825Discernment and the Paschal mystery : St. Paul and desert spirituality1276Discerning a divine calling : vocation and truth in Pilgrim's Progress1497The trinity and discernment in John Henry Newman1668Aesthetic vision and intelligible beauty1899Illumination and truth215Notes256Selected bibliography274Questions for reflection and study282Index of subjects285
