Spirituality can be perceived as a personal attitude of first discovering the truth about God, who is God and why should one worship that God. One strong belief in the truth about God would lead one to walk a life in righteousness to practice one’s faith. If one remains unaware of who one is worshipping- one is unable to analyze the kind of spirituality and rituals one is expected to participate in. By this I mean, using the Christian tradition as my center of focus, I can refer to the example of either a Christian or, a Catholic who is expected to attend the church service, Mass and confession regularly. An example, contrary to this would be of one who is happy with being a seasonal church goer on certain days like Christmas and the Easter.
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Schneider’s’ view on the idea of Spirituality that spirituality is not to be considered “as a research discipline.” Though I consider this view to be partial in its implementation, it is good to be reminded that, a theologian can feel led to exploring and finding spirituality as part of one’s personal interest and research. This is to claim that one who is spiritually inclined toward finding God in other faiths, would evidently try researching on spirituality as a research task. For a Christian who grew up among other faith communities, like myself, the topic of spirituality has always led me to find God’s presence around me, the people, nature, and events. By this I mean, among the categories of media, dramas and films, literature that includes poetry and songs- always inspired me to resonate with the characters and understand the Christian doctrines present in multi linguistic films, like the Bollywood. This is relevant to the claim “one can read Nature as Lectio Divina.” There would be several examples of films and dramas that I can mention here, but the reader might not be able to watch these films, since most of the films, songs, poetry and drama do not subtitles in …show more content…
By this I mean, one is required to surrender one’s will and desire before God. Humility involves forgiveness and, confession of one’s wrong doings. My personal view is that outside of the Christian faith, the idea and definition of spirituality varies. While talking to a close Indian Hindu friend, who mentioned the techniques of Meditation, I learned that it is one of the healthy ways of keeping oneself calm. Through this Meditation, one can keep control over one’s emotions, especially anger and revenge and it allows one’s center of focus to be god or god’s presence. However, in the case of Hindus, it can be a deity. This is to claim that the theory and practice of spirituality involves understanding of god but probably does not allow communication with God as found in the Christian discipline. The chief reason being that the mantras involve name of deities and not the Triune God. My personal argument against this spiritual practice points to the doctrine of Trinity and, interference of God’s grace. If grace had not been involved, Apostle Paul would not be blinded and transformed after listening to Christ on the road to Damascus.
Christianity recognizes all persons as created in the image of God and, its followers as the members Body of Christ. The other reason being that Christian spirituality is strictly reserved to manifesting the love of Christ by loving God and one’s neighbor. The
Schneider’s’ view on the idea of Spirituality that spirituality is not to be considered “as a research discipline.” Though I consider this view to be partial in its implementation, it is good to be reminded that, a theologian can feel led to exploring and finding spirituality as part of one’s personal interest and research. This is to claim that one who is spiritually inclined toward finding God in other faiths, would evidently try researching on spirituality as a research task. For a Christian who grew up among other faith communities, like myself, the topic of spirituality has always led me to find God’s presence around me, the people, nature, and events. By this I mean, among the categories of media, dramas and films, literature that includes poetry and songs- always inspired me to resonate with the characters and understand the Christian doctrines present in multi linguistic films, like the Bollywood. This is relevant to the claim “one can read Nature as Lectio Divina.” There would be several examples of films and dramas that I can mention here, but the reader might not be able to watch these films, since most of the films, songs, poetry and drama do not subtitles in …show more content…
By this I mean, one is required to surrender one’s will and desire before God. Humility involves forgiveness and, confession of one’s wrong doings. My personal view is that outside of the Christian faith, the idea and definition of spirituality varies. While talking to a close Indian Hindu friend, who mentioned the techniques of Meditation, I learned that it is one of the healthy ways of keeping oneself calm. Through this Meditation, one can keep control over one’s emotions, especially anger and revenge and it allows one’s center of focus to be god or god’s presence. However, in the case of Hindus, it can be a deity. This is to claim that the theory and practice of spirituality involves understanding of god but probably does not allow communication with God as found in the Christian discipline. The chief reason being that the mantras involve name of deities and not the Triune God. My personal argument against this spiritual practice points to the doctrine of Trinity and, interference of God’s grace. If grace had not been involved, Apostle Paul would not be blinded and transformed after listening to Christ on the road to Damascus.
Christianity recognizes all persons as created in the image of God and, its followers as the members Body of Christ. The other reason being that Christian spirituality is strictly reserved to manifesting the love of Christ by loving God and one’s neighbor. The