Book Review: Transforming Fire: Imaging Christian Teaching by Mark D. Jordan

to have an answer. I believe it lies in the individual’s decision to follow the truth’s challenging call like St. Francis who radically transformed his time and centuries to come through his own conversion. We need sanctity, Weil writes, as desperately as a plague-ridden city needs a doctor. Sanctity embodies and radiates the absolute good, giving people a taste of it like no theoretical discourse will ever do.