Warming the Word: Hermeneutics and Stages of Change

I recently shared how I attempted to use Blaise Pascal's strategy to "warm, not instruct" in writing The Book of Love . That idea of "warming" to a reading of Scripture is something I describe in The Book of Love in reference to a related idea described by William James: The philosopher William James once described how ideas and beliefs can feel either hot or cold to us, as either alive or dead.…