Spiritual Life

Author: Michael McGhee Series: Talking Philosophy

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Classic volume reappraising the relationship between philosophy and spirituality. It contains an important intervention by Rowan Williams, among other writers.

The reissue with a new Foreword of classic volume setting a fresh agenda for philosophy of religion. The book contains chapters by some of the foremost thinkers in the field, including Rowan Williams, Janet Soskice, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Clark and Paul Williams, who offers a comparative piece on Tibetan Buddhism.

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Classic volume reappraising the relationship between philosophy and spirituality. It contains an important intervention by Rowan Williams, among other writers.

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The original claim made in the introduction to this classic volume was that it broke fresh ground: that it set a new agenda for the philosophy of religion and was a reaction against a narrow conception of the discipline that had little to say philosophically about human experience, or subjectivity, or about the religious imagination, or the idea of 'spirituality'. In a new Foreword to the book, Michael McGhee reflects on how the discipline has changed or remained the same in the intervening twenty-five years since first publication. He argues that the connections between 'philosophy' and 'spirituality' are still developing; and that what we think of as 'religious' or 'spiritual' is shifting, along with ideas about self-knowledge. The book contains pertinent chapters by some of the leading thinkers in the field, including Rowan Williams, Janet Soskice, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Clark and Paul Williams, who offers a comparative piece on Tibetan Buddhism.

About the Author

Michael McGhee is Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. His latest book is Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2021).