Abstract This article presents four lenses for exploring Christian conversion and applies those lenses to three key Catholic initiation practices. The four lenses are Scripture, peak experiences, autonomy and surrender, and metanoia and epistrophe, while the three initiation practices are confirmation, the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), and infant baptism. The author argues...
Book Reviews / Pneuma 31 (2009) 105-160 133 Anthony J. Steinbock, Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007). 328 pp. $44.95 cloth. Th e phenomenological philosopher Anthony Steinbock has written an incredibly rich book about the phenomenology of mystical experience in the Abrahamic traditions, a book that will certainly be...