I think we are called to move from "I like / I don't like" to "it is good to...", and then finally to "embracing it as God's will for me."
Or: from the aesthetic to the moral to the religious (Kierkegaard).
Moral conversion is from satisfactions to values (Lonergan). I would think it is from the aesthetic to the properly moral. The aesthetic is a broader and more significant category. It is more than merely 'satisfactions.' It is refined taste, for example.
And religious conversion is not necessarily theistic. Provided there is universal loving, a loving 'without limits', I think we are dealing with the properly religious (Lonergan). But it is possible to go further (not without an at least implicit intellectual conversion) and recognize not merely love but Love / God / the God of Jesus.
Specific to the Christian faith is not the gift of God's love, but the mediation of that gift in Jesus. (Lonergan)
Or: from the aesthetic to the moral to the religious (Kierkegaard).
Moral conversion is from satisfactions to values (Lonergan). I would think it is from the aesthetic to the properly moral. The aesthetic is a broader and more significant category. It is more than merely 'satisfactions.' It is refined taste, for example.
And religious conversion is not necessarily theistic. Provided there is universal loving, a loving 'without limits', I think we are dealing with the properly religious (Lonergan). But it is possible to go further (not without an at least implicit intellectual conversion) and recognize not merely love but Love / God / the God of Jesus.
Specific to the Christian faith is not the gift of God's love, but the mediation of that gift in Jesus. (Lonergan)
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