Conditions for Encounters with Ultimacy Across Religious Boundaries

Simply reading sacred texts across religious boundaries rarely achieves an "aha moment" or an encounter with ultimacy. The possibility of engaging with ultimacy requires establishing some necessary conditions. Any attempt to compel an experience results in false spiritual encounters rather...

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Main Author: Konigsburg, Joyce Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2018
In: Open theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 422-427
Further subjects:B Interpretation of
B Religious Experience
B Sacred Texts
B Lectio Divina
B active reading
B analogical imagination
B Spiritual Experience
B Interreligious
B religious boundaries
B Prayer
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