Before Belief - Discovering First Spiritual Awareness

Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Some Maps
Chapter 2: First Things First
Chapter 3: From One Generation to the Next
Chapter 4: The Senses
Chapter 5: Sight
Chapter 6: Touch (including the Sense of Body)
Chapter 7: Hearing
Chapter 8: Smell
Chapter 9: Taste
Chapter 10: Revisiting Infantile Experience
Chapter 11: Into Language
Chapter 12: Evaluation
Chapter 13: Now for Integration
Chapter 14: Committed Living
Chapter 15: Early Spirituality in Ministry
Conclusion
Appendix: The Early Spirituality Profile
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Bruce A. Stevens

Summary

Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce A. Stevens
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781793607218
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-721-8
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Emerging Perspectives in Pasto; Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Bezug zu Christen und christlichen Gruppen, Persönliche religiöse Zeugnisse und inspirierende Populärwerke, RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth, Early spirituality, implicit learning, pastoral care, sentence completion, spiritual direction, spiritual formation, unconscious spiritual learning