Gordon T. Smith (PhD, Loyola School of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University) is President of Ambrose University College and Seminary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is former Academic Vice President/Dean and Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, and the author of Called to Be Saints: An Invitation to Christian Maturity, Essential Spirituality: Renewing Your Christian Faith through Classic Spiritual Disciplines, Listening to God in Times of Choice and Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-given Potential.
Spiritual Discernment (Weekend Course)
Speaker(s): Gordon Smith
Date: Fall 2011
Length: 12h 20 min
Product ID: RGDL4126S
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Description
This course is an introduction to the art of spiritual discernment, which enables individuals to recognize and respond to the prompting or inner witness of the Spirit. The course provides a model for effective decision-making that incorporates the wisdom of the Christian heritage, and investigates the corporate dimensions of discernment and decision-making and the role of the spiritual mentor. This "weekend version" of the regular course covers much of the same material as the regular course in a less detailed manner. Lectures include:
- Introduction
- Theology, Spirituality, and the Question of Religious Experience
- History: Discernment and the Spiritual Heritage of the Church
- The Friends: The Perspective of the Quakers
- Discernment
- The Rules of Discernment
- Discernment and Decision-Making
- Discerning Vocation
- Spiritual Discernment
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