Faith as a Way of Life

Christian Scharen, director of the Faith as a Way of Life project at Yale's Center for Faith & Culture, is working on a new book. Tentatively titled Gathered to be Scattered: A New Vision of Pastoral Leadership For Faith As A Way of Life, the work seeks to:

"develop, sustain, and legitimize reflection on Christian faith not simply as a set of propositions to believe, commandments to obey, or rituals to perform but as an integral way of life."

You can browse some early drafts here:

Summary
Preface
Introduction - Pt. 1
Introduction - Pt. 2
Introduction - Pt. 3
Introduction - Pt. 4

In the Preface, Scharen acknowledges the difficulty of concrete theological reflection on the concerns of daily life; we quickly defer to a "primary language" of "feelings, experience, and pragmatism."

To aid the practice of theological discernment, he passes along a simple template penned by his colleague Miroslav Volf. In any given situation we might ask:

god.
who is god.
what is god doing in the world.
how is god achieving this.

us.
who are we.
where are we going.
how are we supposed to get there.

connecting the two.
what should we ultimately trust.
how should we order our loves, provisional and ultimate.