A dialectical approach to understanding the relationship between science and spirituality: The MODI model
The MODI model is a dialectical way of comprehending the complementary relationship between science and spirituality. The model is founded on the notion that science and spirituality are domains of enquiry that both exemplify the values of modernity: open and embodied enquiry; the questioning of aut...
| Published in: | Journal for the Study of Spirituality |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2020
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| In: |
Journal for the Study of Spirituality
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Natural sciences
/ Spirituality
/ Intellect
/ Emotion
/ Dialectics
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
dialectical
B Spirituality B Science B MODI model |
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| Summary: | The MODI model is a dialectical way of comprehending the complementary relationship between science and spirituality. The model is founded on the notion that science and spirituality are domains of enquiry that both exemplify the values of modernity: open and embodied enquiry; the questioning of authority; and empowerment of the individual. The model captures the difference between science and spirituality by way of seven conceptual polarities: outer-inner; impersonal-personal; thinking-feeling; empirical-transcendental; mechanistic-purposive; verbal-ineffable; and explanation-contemplation. At the point where these dialectics overlap, the MODI model proposes an interface space' where science and spirituality overlap and combine. I further suggest that these seven polarities capture aspects of a fundamental head-heart' duality in human knowing, which is represented in a range of existing theories across philosophical, psychological and neurological levels. The model has predictive power and can help frame the growing interaction between science and spirituality that is a central feature of the contemporary world. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-0251 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the Study of Spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2020.1726045 |