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Spirituality in Healthcare, Social C are , and Education

Spirituality in Healthcare, Social C are , and Education. Paul Dearey Centre for Spirituality Studies University of Hull. MA in Spirituality Studies. Spirituality without apologetics. First questions. How is spirituality reduced to mundane phenomena?

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Spirituality in Healthcare, Social C are , and Education

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  1. Spirituality in Healthcare, Social Care, and Education Paul Dearey Centre for Spirituality Studies University of Hull

  2. MA in Spirituality Studies

  3. Spirituality without apologetics

  4. First questions • How is spirituality reduced to mundane phenomena? • Why do we accept a concept of “spirituality” which contains no truth? • Why are we unrealistic about spirituality?

  5. Three reductions

  6. Secular Spirituality

  7. Two Poles of Subjectivity

  8. Implicit Humanism

  9. Anti-realism/Constructivism • No declarative truth corresponding to spiritual realities • Spiritual insight is mere opinion • The data about spirituality builds inter-professional coherence • The ‘truth’ about spirituality is found in efficiency and utility

  10. Liturgical Worship • Beyond “religious experience” • Beyond categorical knowledge • Beyond natural existence • Supernatural grace • From and towards God

  11. Historicism • All human activities are defined by their history; they have no other reality • Denial of the invariance of Christian dogma • Truth is relative to the knowledge systems of a particular era; knowledge is defined by social and cultural context

  12. God of Philosophers • The experience of God is not bound by concepts • The experience of God does not arise from a universal type (e.g., a being with divine attributes)

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