scholarly journals Human Spirituality: Jean-Louis Chrétien and the Vital Side of Speech

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 511
Author(s):  
Peruzzotti Francesca
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Points ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
Human Spirituality

Jean-Louis Chrétien founded his phenomenological enquiry on an analysis of the word as defined by the call and response link. His analysis provides an in-depth approach to spiritual experience as a basis for authentic religious experience. The description of the theoretical sites in which he confronts the theme of the spirit (vital breath, Holy Spirit, inspiration of Scripture, and spiritual life and prayer) determines some fixed points that allow us to define spiritual experience as intersubjective and fleshly, and therefore, not reducible to solipsism and intimism.

scholarly journals Psychological Analysis of the Phenomenon of Religious Experience Distortion

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 107-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Filonik
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Psychological Analysis

The article addresses the problem of distortions of the spiritual experience, with which psychotherapist encounters while working with religious clients. In the focus are the phenomena of substitution, which are understood as distortions of the spiritual experience. The person himself sees them as normal, spiritually right, healthy and as being signs of spiritual development etc. Along the line of conceptualizing the practice of working with believers the article introduces the analysis of such psychological dis- turbances as: being unable to recognize own feelings, deficiency of valuing own self. The ways in which such phenomena occur are discussed, especially their peculiarities among religious people. Negative consequences of such psychological problems for spiritual life of Christians are analyzed. Main reasons behind these phenomena and some recommendations in addressing them during psychotherapy are pointed out. The associations between the problems of self-esteem and self-value are given.

Phenomenology of Religious Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 251-267
Author(s):  
Joseph Olufemi Asha
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Significant Implication ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
The Road ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Everyday Situation

In the Christian tradition, a spiritual experience is a phenomenon that in some sense remains controversial. Nonetheless, spiritual experience in Christianity refers to the personalization of the faith in Christ that transcends the normal. This is, however, critically contested and regrettably unexplored. It lends credence to why contemporary research on religious experience reveals that Christian spiritual experiences have the element of supernatural intervention by the Holy Spirit, although supernatural must not be confused with spectacular. It might be spectacular, as in the case of Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts 9). Drawing upon extensive contemporary research, content analysis, and literature on religious experience, this study adopts descriptive methodology as techniques. The study situates religious experience as occurrence in an everyday situation of Christians through which they derive a clear inner realization of “the truth.” Findings reveal a significant implication for collective research on religious and spiritual experiences for Christians.

Belief in Science? On the Neuroscience of Religion

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-242
Author(s):  
Katja Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Physiological Study ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
Brain Scans ◽  
Normal Product ◽  
Human Spirituality ◽  
Religious Differences

This afterword demonstrates how the return of religion to public life has had an impact on science. Faith itself has become an object of physiological study, with researchers deploying brain scans to identify a “God spot,” the supposed seat of a wired-in human spirituality. The afterword then considers the growing field of “neurotheology.” Rather than asking whether God exists and contemplating His divine nature, neurotheology seeks to ascertain whether religious experience is a normal product of brain function or the result of neural pathology. The reality has, however, not lived up to the hype. Far from overcoming theological stalemate, neurotheology has merely refought old battles on new terrain. Both believers and skeptics have been able to draw on neuroscientific results to shore up their positions, and debates have returned as vigorous and apparently intractable as before. In fact, rather than being a refuge from polemic, neurotheology provides evidence that debate over theological questions might not admit final resolution. Whatever its claims, neurotheology's most important lesson might be that people are better advised to respect religious differences than to try to overcome them.

Topics in the Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Haym Soloveitchik
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Hasidei Ashkenaz

This chapter focuses on Ibn 'Ezra's Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh. Conflicting reports are to be found in the Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh as to the origin of the soul. At times it is described as originating from the holy spirit via a process of inbreathing. On other occasions it is said to have been lit from the flames of the Kavod or of the heavenly throne. Other passages speak vaguely of its having been created from the place of the heavenly spirit. Whether any of these processes, or all of them, are genuine acts of creation or only emanations cannot be determined from the text. A prominent place in the Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh is occupied by demuyot, mirror-images of man fashioned at the beginning of Creation and which stand in endless array before the Kavod, drawing their sustenance from the absorption of the heavenly light that streams forth from the Kavod, and in turn transferring this vitality to their earthly counterparts. The demut is a counter-shape and plays no role in the religious experience of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz.

The Outbreak of Evangelicalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 140-172
Author(s):  
Baird Tipson
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
British Isles ◽  
New Birth ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
George Whitefield

This chapter first describes the theology of the leaders of the evangelical awakening on the British Isles, George Whitefield and John Wesley. Both insisted that by preaching the “immediate” revelation of the Holy Spirit during what they called the “new birth,” they were recovering an essential element of primitive Christianity that had been forgotten over the centuries. Both had clear affinities with the conscience theology of William Perkins, yet both distanced themselves from it in important ways. In New England, Jonathan Edwards explored the nature of religious experience more deeply than either Wesley or Whitefield had done, and Edwards proudly claimed his Puritan heritage even as opponents found him deviating from it.

Experiencing the Spirit

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-79
Author(s):  
Simeon Zahl
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Temporal Specificity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit

This chapter argues that a constructive recovery of the category of “experience” in Christian theology is best accomplished through the lens of the theology of the Holy Spirit. Thinking about experience in terms of the work of the Holy Spirit helps specify what we mean when we talk about Christian “experience,” while also avoiding the problems that arise in appeals to more general concepts of “religious experience.” The chapter shows how a pneumatologically informed theology of experience draws attention to a problematic tendency towards abstraction and disembodiment in much modern systematic theology. It then argues that the work of the Spirit is likely to take forms that are “practically recognizable” in the lives of Christians in the world, exhibiting temporal specificity as well as affective and emotional impact, and that pneumatologies that cannot take account of such practically recognizable effects are deficient.

The Soul's Imaginings: Daniel Defoe, William Cowper

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Meyer Spacks
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
William Cowper ◽  
Complex Functions ◽  
Spiritual Autobiographies ◽  
Christian Fellowship

The authors of eighteenth-century spiritual autobiographies and of their fictional imitations demonstrate the complex functions of imagination as a component of the spiritual life and of its records. Robinson Crusoe and William Cowper’s Memoir (1816) both delineate detailed sequences of emotional and imaginative development as the foundation of religious experience. Crusoe progresses to self-understanding by recognizing and mastering his own fear and anger and developing his capacity for love and by enlarging the resources of his imagination. Cowper asserts that his conversion and the Christian fellowship that followed it dominate his experience, but his account, with dark imagistic undertones, may also be read as revealing the persistence of despair. The unconscious shaping which produces this counter-pattern enriches the memoir’s implication. In novel and autobiography alike, the divergence between what the author asserts and what he suggests, reflecting varying possibilities of the imagination, can generate fruitful literary effects.

Testing the Spirits in the American Context

1979 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
James H. Smylie
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Spiritual Life

We must be careful not to judge the religious experience of others too quickly and yet be ready to submit every form of spiritual life to the norm of the spirit and life of our Lord Jesus Christ.

scholarly journals MEMAHAMI MAKNA RELIGIUSITAS/SPIRITUALITAS PADA INDIVIDU DEWASA MUDA MELALUI PHOTOVOICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Anita Novianty ◽  
Evans Garey
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Older People ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Self Identity

Early adulthood was indicated by exploring self-identity, including re-questioning the religion belief that was taught by nuclear family since childhood. Most of young adult perceived themselves or by older people as less religious, but spiritual. This study aims to understand the meaning of religiosity/spirituality from a) perspective of their own religion; b) perspective of other religion; and c) their religious experience. Photovoice was applied in this study with various background of participant’s religion including Moslem, Christian, Catholic, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Kong Hu Cu, which selected by snowball sampling. The result showed worship place and activities were mostly chosen as representation of the meaning of religiosity/spirituality from their own religion perspective as well as other religion. Whereas, moment in worship activity and personal experience where they can get through of difficult or unfortunate situation were representation of their religious/spiritual experience. From this study, we can conclude that the institutionalized religion is still play important role in young adult’s spiritual/religious life.

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