Theology and Spirituality: Strangers, Rivals, or Partners?

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 1986

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

After tracing the history of the term “spirituality” and the discipline of spirituality up to the mid-twentieth century, this article describes the contemporary understanding of spirituality as lived religious experience and of the academic discipline which studies this subject. This phenomenology of the discipline grounds a position on the relationship between lived spirituality and theology on the one hand, and the academic disciplines of spirituality and theology on the other.

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