What's the Story?: Spirituality and Writing

What is spirituality? As in other papers (Gearon, 1995, cf Wright, 1996; Gearon, 1996, 1997), I maintain here that spirituality may be defined as our relationship with ultimate reality. Spirituality is thus inevitably, by this definition, always metaphysical (Gearon, 1995, again, cf. Wright, 1996, b...

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Main Author: Gearon, Liam (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 1997
In: International journal of children's spirituality
Year: 1997, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 41-52
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