The Curve of the Sacred: An Exploration of Human Spirituality (Value Inquiry Book Series 178) (Value Inquiry Book Series)Editions Rodopi BV. | ISBN 9042020318 | 2006-07-15 | PDF | 234 pages | 968 KB
This interdisciplinary book examines the nature of spirituality and the role it plays in the search for meaning. Spirituality is a loving tendency towards the sacred. In a secular environment, the sacred is taken to be a power greater than self. In a religious environment, the Sacred refers to God, or Higher Power. The book examines the developments of the s/Sacred in great works of art and literature, as well as in medicine, theology, psychology, philosophy, and religion. Spirituality also functions as an unloving tendency towards disunity, or a force for evil. The first part of the book examines the ways of the spiritual as a force for good and evil. We have just witnessed one of the bloodiest centuries in human history.