Waiting and discerning is not an experience peculiar to the religiously attentive. It is part of the ordinary discourse of decision-making that we “see our way” to doing something, or “follow the obvious course.” What these common phrases have to tell the theologian is that self-consciously religious experiences of being led by God are no departure from ordinary patterns of moral thinking, but a heightening of certain features of them. What it has to tell the general theorist of norm and decision is that a theory of moral discernment must not be squeezed beyond recognition simply to gratify a
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