When I was preparing my sermon on the resurrected Jesus meeting the disciples and sending them out in John, I reread some of Miroslav Volf’s amazing book, Exclusion and Embrace. The following quotation has been swimming in my head since:

The ability to know the truth is not just a matter of what your mind does—whether it adjusts itself adequately to reality or thinks coherently—but is also a matter of what your character is. (269)