My old acquaintance (45 years) & fellow yat (New Orleanian), the late Jesuit, Don Gelpi, articulated a normative theology of conversion.
His account integrated
- Edwards’ aesthetic object (i.e. Christology),
- Royce’s ethical dynamism &
- Peirce’s logical semiotic, while reframing
- Lonergan’s conversions in terms of experience.
Palamas’ energies, Stăniloae’s affirmation of direct contemplative experience & Bulgakov’s created Sophia seemed to me to fit just such a view & so did von Balthasar’s outlook.
This all squares with an account of faith that’s neither arational nor rationalistic, but defensibly & coherently trans-rational.
Many others are running with Gelpi’s account in other fruitful directions. For example, see Mark Grave’s “Gracing Neuroscientific Tendencies of the Embodied Soul,”
__Philosophy and Theology 26 (1):97-129 (2014) __, wherein he models the brain’s biology using the dispositional tendencies of nature—characterized by Jonathan Edwards, C. S. Peirce & the Jesuit philosophical theologian Donald Gelpi.
Also, see my own project, a tehomic pan-semio-entheism, which affirms a creatio ex profundis within mostly classical theistic contours:
https://paxamoretbonum.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/my-mon-arche-i-tectonic-shift/
