communal discernment - my favorite redundancy, and it appliesin science, philosophy & religion b/c, in my approach, atleast, epistemology is epistemology is epistemology (contraany notion of, for example, a religious epistemology vs othertypes). This is not to say that there is no such phenomenalexperience as "hearing from God" but, even then, theindividual will be processing (chewing & digesting) it through(self-critical) lenses provided during formation in community& the fruits of same (or lack thereof) are subject to theprudential & theological judgments of community (anothersource transcendent of one's mere self). We don't want to denysigns & wonders, which may be proleptic realizations of whatmay some day be an eschatological fullness but we want toresist the tendency to sensationalize them in a way thatdevalues the splendor of the ordinary and the stupefaction weshould all be experiencing in every waking (and dreaming)moment at the ... the ... the ...

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