Contents:
1 Conviction Beyond Reason
A Beginning Event
Questioning Conviction
Two Prominent Misunderstandings
The Damascus Event
A New Theory of Error
2 Knowing as Transforming Event
Transformational Logic
Scientific Knowing
Esthetic Knowing
Therapeutic Knowing
Other Transpositions
3 The Fourfold Knowing Event
Introduction to Being
The Lived World
The Self
The Void
The Holy
4 Convictional Knowing
Analogy of the Spirit
Eastern Transformation
The Emmaus Event
Preliminary Placing of Convictional Experience
5 Convictional Knowing in Human Development
Early Prototypes and Ultimate Significance
Transformation as Stage Transition
Transformation Beyond Stages: Luther and Jung
Transformation and Christ Event: C.S. Lewis
6 From Negation to Love
The Theological Deficiency of Normal Development
Developmental Perspective on Negation
Dynamics of Existential Transformation
Cases of Existential Transformation
Conclusions About Negation
Convictional Knowing and Giving Love
The Way of Love
7 Guidelines into Convictional Knowing
Introduction
Guidelines: Theological Emphases
Guidelines: Psychological Emphases

Includes bibliographical references.