"Experience" is the ultimate currency today. Even Christian communities are rediscovering the importance of sharing their feelings, their experiences of life: going beyond the fact of simply living together under the same roof or believing in the same doctrine. Nowadays, we are invited to make a shift from knowing God to experiencing God.

As we learn to experience God, we discover three things: God is deeply engaged in the process of our becoming fully human; only by letting go of our possesive tendencies can we discover this liberating Presence that invites us to become full and free human beings; and we can experience God and the other in a new way when we are engaged in transforming the world and establishing a more respectful partnership with creation.

RAMON MARTINEZ DE PISON is a professor in the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. He holds a PhD in theology and a doctorate in psychology. He has published several books as well as scholarly articles in the fields of Christian anthropology, Death and the Afterlife, and Shame and Suicide. Martínez de Pisón has a particular interest in the relationship between human development and the experience of God. He is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the religious congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

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