Before Belief
eBook - PDF

Before Belief

Discovering First Spiritual Awareness

  1. 157 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Before Belief

Discovering First Spiritual Awareness

About this book

First things are spiritually and theologically important. Before Belief explores the precognitive human experience of transcendence, illuminating how such foundational experiences are formative of attachment relationships with people and ultimately with God. The book proposes an implicit learning model rather than rely on Freud's or Jung's understanding of the unconscious, with a goal of recovering unconscious spiritual learning. Once discovered and put into language, early learning needs to be tested and integrated into life experience and expressed in committed living. The theories examined and advanced in the work are also carried through in practical case studies that demonstrate the pastoral and clinical salience of understanding and connecting people to those grounding experiences.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter OneSome Maps
  4. Chapter TwoFirst Things First
  5. Chapter ThreeFrom One Generation to the Next
  6. Chapter FourThe Senses
  7. Chapter FiveSight
  8. Chapter SixTouch (Including the Sense of Body)
  9. Chapter SevenHearing
  10. Chapter EightSmell
  11. Chapter NineTaste
  12. Chapter TenRevisiting Infantile Experience
  13. Chapter ElevenInto Language
  14. Chapter TwelveEvaluation
  15. Chapter ThirteenNow for Integration
  16. Chapter FourteenCommitted Living
  17. Chapter FifteenEarly Spirituality in Ministry
  18. Conclusion
  19. AppendixThe Early Spirituality Profile
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. About the Author