The transforming moment: Understanding convictional experiences

About this book

In this groundbreaking study of convictional knowing Dr. James E. Loder (Professor of the Philosophy of Christian Education at Princeton Theological Seminary) builds a framework for understanding human experiences in which ordinary modes of apprehending reality are suspended by the startling intrusion of a convincing insight -- which often arrives with convictional force and transformational power. Interweaving psychology and Christian theology Loder establishes the five-part pattern of convictional insight in the arts sciences the practice of psychotherapy human development and spirituality. "Personally powerful spiritually sophisticated therapeutically sensitive -- a resource for all who long to find the Face of God in the voids we face." -- James B. Ashbrook