The Curve of the Sacred: An Exploration of Human Spirituality (Value Inquiry Book Series 178) (Value Inquiry Book Series

by Constantin V. Ponomareff

Value Inquiry Book Series (178)

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This interdisciplinary book examines the nature of spirituality and the role it plays in the search for meaning. Spirituality is a loving tendency towards the sacred. In a secular environment, the sacred is taken to be a power greater than self. In a religious environment, the Sacred refers to God, or Higher Power. The book examines the developments of the s/Sacred in great works of art and literature, as well as in medicine, theology, psychology, philosophy, and religion. Spirituality also show more functions as an unloving tendency towards disunity, or a force for evil.The first part of the book exami show less

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Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Philosophy
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204ReligionThe Bible & ChristianityReligious experience, life, practice
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BL624 .P66Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionReligions. Mythology. RationalismReligions. Mythology. RationalismReligious life
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