Abstract
This chapter seeks to show how the spiritual practice of an "active" or "engaged" love is integral to the sort of "epistemology of involvement" through which we come to a religious understanding of the world. Such an understanding is one that gives proper recognition to the sacred or reverence-worthy character of the world. The chapter discusses how a religiously inflected language of love and the practice it informs can transfigure the world for us and enable its sacred or reverence-worthy character to come into view (supposing it is there in any case). It also seeks to show how this is connected to a process of spiritual formation (or Bildung).
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | New Models of Religious Understanding |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 79-96 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198796732 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 21 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Arts and Humanities(all)