Is a Sense of Self Essential to Spirituality?

Within the Baptist faith tradition to which the author belongs, spirituality is about human beings encountering the presence, activity, and reality of God, and then each person living out the practical consequences of that encounter. However, a sense of God as Other presupposes ability to recognize...

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Main Author: Gordon, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2009
In: Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2009, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-63
Further subjects:B Autism
B Hospitality
B Spirituality
B Self
B Kenosis
B Community
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