DISCERNMENT WITHIN A MUTUAL LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD: A NEW THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
Theologians disagree on whether Christians can know what in particular God wills. Appropriate decisions often conflict with decisions God seems to want us humans to make. Methods of discernment are numerous and fallible. Spiritual writers depict discerners as passively receiving God’s will or discovering God’s predetermined plan. As an alternative, this article proposes that an