Spirituality: engagement and reflection: dialogical explorations among practitioners and intellectuals

How do spiritual life, intellectual reflection and societal engagement relate to each other? This article explores the question based on explorative dialogical research among practitioners of spirituality and intellectuals engaged with societal issues. Taking as a starting point the ideas of three w...

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Main Author: Quartier, Thomas 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Peeters [2016]
In: Studies in spirituality
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Pages: 307-330
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
KDD Protestant Church
RK Charity work
Further subjects:B Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
B Spiritual Life
B Government, Resistance to
B Peer reviewed
B Engagement (Philosophy)
B Sölle, Dorothee, 1929-2003
B Dissent, Political
B Church and the world
B Sociology, Christian
B Spiritual care (Medical care)
B Public Theology
B Spirituality Study and teaching
B Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945
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Summary:How do spiritual life, intellectual reflection and societal engagement relate to each other? This article explores the question based on explorative dialogical research among practitioners of spirituality and intellectuals engaged with societal issues. Taking as a starting point the ideas of three witnesses of what the triangle of spirituality, engagement and reflection can mean, dialogues (collatios) have been held, recorded and analysed to explore associations of personal forms of life, analytical skills and social action. The three ‘ant-agonists’ are Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothee Sölle and Thomas Merton. We used core texts of all three during the fieldwork. The impulses of these texts provide a frame for our reflection on the data presented here. In the first part, the dimension of societal engagement is explored, in the second part the dimension of intellectual reflection and in the third part the dimension of a spiritual involvement. We found that a comprehensive self for practitioners of spirituality and intellectuals should entail transformative knowledge and substantive analysis of ultimate values, as well as an eschatological open attitude for study and research.
ISSN:0926-6453
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in spirituality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2143/SIS.26.0.3180813