RT Article
T1 ‘Spiritual But Nor Religious’ – Some Final Reflections
JF New blackfriars
VO 97
IS 1068
SP 218
OP 230
A1 Gemma, Simmonds
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1780356293
AB In the discourse of a number of theologians there is a perceived gap between spirituality and ‘theology proper’. This gap would not have been perceived or understood by Aquinas, Augustine or others of the long tradition of theological enquiry, since they saw union with God as the highest fruit of theological thinking. There is another gap today between the term ‘spirituality’ used in a loose and decontextualized fashion by the Mind, Body, Spirit industry and those for whom its study is part of mystical theology and its practice part of the church's mystagogia. The fact that many otherwise orthodox believers, as well as those alienated from regular church belief and practice, turn to more esoteric spiritual paths may be a sign that a return to a better-informed and theologically grounded knowledge of the mystical tradition is long overdue.
K1 Dualism
K1 Holiness
K1 Prayer
K1 Mysticism
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.1111/nbfr.12196