George writes: ‘The Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Enlightenment have left us assuming that personal engagement with God is an essential foundation of a life of faith. This is a distortion, as can readily be seen by the ways we relate with other people, not to mention the way people have lived their faith in the history of religions. The “personal” is one part of a person, but Christianity is incarnational, concerned with the whole person. This means we need to understand better the relationship between internal experiences and commitments, and external practices and the physical dimension, as well as how our mental processes work hand-in-hand with the body. This has consequences not only for mission, but for the way we are able to live as Christians in the contemporary world. Monasticism has a bit to say about this.’
George is the author of All Christians are Monks (Sacristy Press, 2024).
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