Transfiguring love

David McPherson

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Transfiguring love

David McPherson

Department of Philosophy

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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)
Title of host publication	New Models of Religious Understanding
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	79-96
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Print)	9780198796732
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796732.003.0005
State	Published - Dec 21 2017

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