Truth in the West is highly contested. The advent of post-truth politics, in addition to the ongoing culture wars, mitigates against truth being understood solely on the basis of objective facts, as it was in the past. For pastoral carers and counsellors, this raises significant questions: how to build shared understandings of truth between individuals and in communities? This article proposes a solution in an incarnational approach to pastoral work. Drawing upon the work of Rowan Williams, Raimon Panikkar, Diarmuid O’Murchu, and St. Maximos the Confessor, this article offers both theological and practical considerations regarding this approach.

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牧灵实践中的真理：为有争议的领土打下更坚实的基础

西方的真理备受争议。除了正在进行的文化战争之外，后真相政治的出现减轻了像过去那样仅根据客观事实来理解真相的情况。对于教牧照顾者和辅导员来说，这提出了重要的问题：如何在个人和社区之间建立对真理的共同理解？这篇文章提出了一种以道成肉身的方式来进行牧灵工作的解决方案。本文借鉴了 Rowan Williams、Raimon Panikkar、Diarmuid O'Murchu 和 St. Maximos the Confessor 的工作，提供了有关这种方法的神学和实践考虑。