Il discernimento dello Spirito in san Paolo

The christian is a new creation, a spiritual being that grows dynamically in conformity to the Risen Christ. Filled with the love of God (ἀγάπη) poured into his heart by the Holy Spirit, he grows more and more in the knowledge (γνῶσις) of the mysteries of humankind and God's action in his life, in order to always fulfill the will of God. To this end, he receives a new heart (καρδία), a new mind (νοῦς) with regards to the intellectual aspect that involves understanding, knowledge and wisdom; and a moral intuition (αἴσθησις) and a renewed conscience (συνείδησις) with regards to the behavioural aspect. Through these faculties in his soul, he is able to put in motion a process of scrutatio of the reality around him, and an intellectual opening to divine illumination (revelatio), in order to actualise a correct discernment, measured and sifted (κρίνω, δοκιμάζω), of the will of God through the changing circumstances of life, and realise it.