SPIRITUALITY AT THE HORIZON OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENOLOGY AND PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY Cover Image

SPIRITUALITÁS A VALLÁSFENOMENOLÓGIA ÉS PASZTORÁLPSZICHOLÓGIA HORIZONTJÁN
SPIRITUALITY AT THE HORIZON OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENOLOGY AND PASTORAL PSYCHOLOGY

Author(s): Szabolcs Kovács
Subject(s): Pastoral Theology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: spirituality; phenomenology; spiritual well-being; pastoral psychology;

Summary/Abstract: We are living in a designer world, where not only the circumstances but our gods will be created consciously. We hunger for a God. Choosing an inadequate god, a god too small to transcend our limitations and who therefore can neither save nor transform us, drives us to keep hunting. This study reviews the phenomenology of Christian spirituality, religious practice and places special emphasis on these areas. We can find a correlation between spirituality and spiritual well-being and happiness, factors which contribute to a positive personal development. We are condemned to meaning. There is a universal impulse to assign meaning to our joys and sorrows. Christian spirituality is a condition for us to reframe and understand our life perspectives and reach the “Courage to be” (Tillich).

  • Issue Year: 66/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 217-230
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian