Seldom are we privileged to witness an international philosophical movement, which in
addition to being a philosophical revolution, vindicates the values and concerns of a critical
anthropological approach in Spirituality from the analytic tradition. The work of critical
realists is potential remedy for the ills, dichotomies and lacunae inherent in the Western
philosophical and spiritual traditions. Critical realism and philosophy of meta-reality, it is
claimed, not only emancipate philosophy but, science and society as spiritual. This
dissertation explores the many points of confluence and exposes dimensions of living and
studying spirituality, which challenge us to think of ontological realism, epistemological
relativism and rational (reflexive) judgement in a mode, which cautions against the naive
relativism, tacit irrealism and other mistakes which tend to over-characterise our academic
discourse with social linguistification, to the detriment of humanity and our utopian freedom
and flourishing. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/18239 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Schreiber, D. A. |
| Contributors | Lombaard, Christo |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (194 leaves) |
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