Being True
Turning to Karl Jaspers’s 1937 lectures, later published as <i>Philosophy of Existence</i>, this paper examines what might be meant by the colloquial expression “spiritual but not religious”. In doing so, it is argued that while Jaspers’s critique of organized religion mostly hits the ma...
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| description | Turning to Karl Jaspers’s 1937 lectures, later published as <i>Philosophy of Existence</i>, this paper examines what might be meant by the colloquial expression “spiritual but not religious”. In doing so, it is argued that while Jaspers’s critique of organized religion mostly hits the mark, critiques of religion—as represented here by Jaspers’s Existenzphilosophie—fail to undermine a form of genuine spirituality grounded in a faith in the revealed Christ. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59f660e40cec4a9a8a54e5b5ad2e601b2023-11-21T14:47:41ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442021-04-0112426210.3390/rel12040262Being TrueSteven DeLay0Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1DP, UKTurning to Karl Jaspers’s 1937 lectures, later published as <i>Philosophy of Existence</i>, this paper examines what might be meant by the colloquial expression “spiritual but not religious”. In doing so, it is argued that while Jaspers’s critique of organized religion mostly hits the mark, critiques of religion—as represented here by Jaspers’s Existenzphilosophie—fail to undermine a form of genuine spirituality grounded in a faith in the revealed Christ.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/4/262HeideggerHusserlJaspersKierkegaardrevelationspirit |
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