Studying Christian Spirituality Analysis

Through out my life I have known that my way of thinking and I would change with time. I have always thought that I would evolve more and be well educated because I always like to push my self, but i didn’t get the access I needed to that information. However, I can say now that I never thought that my mind would develop to what it did in the past quarter. I started understanding more information in depth and really analyzing information I get. I had a small understanding of spirituality like I identified in my previous papers and I always wanted to know more about it. This class pushed me more to really understand it. It helped me understand why my mother had a strong spirituality background and really believed in it. However, I didn’t get …show more content…
This class made me think about spirituality from every culture background and understand more from a different point of view without any judgments. This paper will demonstrate how my way of thinking evolved and changed in this class in a lot of areas.

First, I didn’t have a very broad understanding of spirituality and didn’t know what it really means from a religion point of view. David B. Perrin, whom is a scholar and an educator in the University of British Columbia, really explains spirituality in a very detailed way. In his book Studying Christian Spirituality he explores how the characteristics of spirituality shape a human being. He focuses on four primary characteristics, but I wanted to talk about two of the primary characteristics that really affected me the most. First, Perrin identifies that spirituality distinguishes that life is bigger that what is happening in an individual’s life . It really made me think and look at what is happening around the world and not only think about myself. It made me really explore the ideas of being educated more and the idea of that my religion is the only right religion was changed. I started having interest in another religion and to know how each religion got shaped to what is now. Also, it …show more content…
Nowadays there are a lot of bad things happening around us, such as racism and hate. This is making me want to learn more because knowing what I know now is making me open up and understand people and hearing what they have to say before judging someone. Countries and cities around the world that suffer from these disorders should have to work towards actions that will help prevent them.

Through the research that I have done and taking the class of Ignition spirituality I have learned lot of information. I became a very open minded human being, making me not judge people before understanding his or her background. I realized that most religions connect in some way and most religions focus around piece of mind and the love of God. Also, I have learned to be thankful for everything I have because reading and seeing what happened in El Salvador made me realize how lucky we are not having those kind of problems