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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

By Bruce A. Stevens

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bruce A. Stevens
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781793607232
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-723-2
• Pagine: 156
• Serie: Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali