FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY

Older, traditional religious ideas are being questioned and challenged, but this does not mean that we have to reject the very notion of God or the Divine, or throw out all religion as useless. But it does mean hard and searching questions into the foundation of spirituality and religion, and particularly orthodox religion and spirituality which declare themselves as the one true path to the Divine. A contemporary approach is needed which can accommodate our modern… (more)

Older, traditional religious ideas are being questioned and challenged, but this does not mean that we have to reject the very notion of God or the Divine, or throw out all religion as useless. But it does mean hard and searching questions into the foundation of spirituality and religion, and particularly orthodox religion and spirituality which declare themselves as the one true path to the Divine. A contemporary approach is needed which can accommodate our modern world and its discoveries. Paradoxically, such an approach reaches back to some very old ideas indeed. What is set out in this study is a set of articles dealing with the foundations, the ground, the base, of spirituality, stripping away inadequate ideas and theologies that are no longer tenable in an attempt to get to a more sure foundation for contemporary spirituality.