ABSTRACT
Discernment is an ethical and spiritual process during which the entire value structure of a person is clearly manifested in a concrete historical context. The revival of interest in discernment reflects the contemporary need for a new spirituality of discernment to enable people to be more prepared to meet the challenges resulting from rapid changes and paradigm shifts in societies. Elizabeth Liebert recommended discernment for our time as a suitable spirituality to cope with the postmodern tendency where everything is fragmentary, superficial, individualistic, and subjective. A timely sage can provoke and evoke new patterns of civility and human flourishing based on justice, discernment, and discretion in the face of new circumstances in the harmony with heaven, earth, and humanity. Discernment involves the person in the community of faith and brings the community to decisions that order its life and ministry.
