ABSTRACT
Enchantment refers to the allure of fascination, the charm in beauty. It can mean bliss or ecstasy itself. It also refers to wizardry and magic, or the supernatural. It is certainly the full immersion of childlike play, but in Christianity it is also pneumenal. The pneumenal field is enchanted. That means it is filled with the possibilities of spiritual beings one cannot see and dramas being played out at a level beyond the mundane and about which one is commonly unaware. In Christianity the enchanted, pneumenal field includes experience of the sacred. In Christianity the enchantment that turns a mere psychologized spirituality into a window on the ineffable is an enchantment infused with verity. It is not enough to be fully immersed and taken with one’s appreciation, say of beauty, the play of a childlike moment, or the blush of one’s emotions, the urgency of one’s values and desires, or the impact of one’s decisions.
