Join me in my interview of Christopher Maurer, a licensed clinical mental health therapist and author of “Inimicus Intrinsicus: Interior Conflict, Conscience, and Formation – A Case Study of the Neocatechumenal Way.” Maurer examines the Neocatechumenal Way (NCW) through four analytical lenses: existential psychology, Stoicism, strategic psychology, and Thomistic moral theology.
In this interview he addresses these questions and more:
- Why do people join and remain in high-pressure groups like the Neocatechumenal Way?
- What does each of the analytical lenses employed by Maurer reveal that the others may miss?
- What is “narrative capture” and how do groups like the Neocatechumenal Way employ it?
- What happens when religious formation weakens rather than strengthens reason, will, and conscience?
- How does grace perfect nature?
- What is the Restoration Framework Hypothesis as applied to the Neocatechumenal Way and how does it explain the behavior of that movement?
