A quick recap of the first two sessions, before we carry on. Christian contemplation is the practice of bringing what is going on inside us into the presence of God, so that it becomes part of our relationship with Him, and so that we are changed in the process – until Christ is born in us, as St Paul might say. Part of that is cultivating what the Fathers called
A good illustration there is so much more to Christianity than assent to doctrine (as important as that is).