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Giusti, Igor. "The Transformation of the Body Through Spiritual Somatic Liquid-like Phenomena in the Path to Enlightenment, or Union with God, in Eight Mystical Paths| A Comparative Analysis." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13427835.
Full textWhat if it was possible to attain enlightenment, or union with God, in the physical body? What if instead of using meditation or prayer to merely transcend embodied existence, practitioners were to transform the experience of their body in order to bring a sense of transcendence into their very physicality and the world itself? These questions are timely. There is much dialogue around the relationship of enlightenment, or union with God, and the body. Using a hermeneutic methodology, this study first explores 8 spiritual concepts (in 8 different spiritual traditions) that refer to subtle spiritual phenomena occurring in the body. These phenomena are alternatively described as a liquid, oil, nectar, or water that penetrates the body, and hypothesized to relate to consciousness as experienced through somatic awareness or awareness occupying the body. These concepts and traditions are as follows: amata (and rapture and pleasure) in Theravada Buddhism, amr&dotbelow;ita in Vajrayāna Buddhism according to the Nyingma and Geluk school, amr&dotbelow;ita in Hinduism according to Hat&dotbelow;ha Yoga, amr&dotbelow;ita in neo-Advaita Vedānta, "the descending force" in Śri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga, the "water of life" in Christianity according to St. Teresa of Avila, shefa in Judaism according to the Zohar, and "presence" in A. H. Almaas' Diamond Approach. The first part of the study uses canonical texts and authoritative commentaries for hermeneutical analysis. Subsequently, by adopting a comparative methodological approach, the second part compares and contrasts the findings to understand the differences, similarities, and role of the experiences to which these 8 concepts refer in relation to the body and enlightenment, or union with God, as these spiritual goals are understood by each tradition.
Daniel, Greg K. "The Puritan ladder of meditation an explication of Puritan meditation and its compatibility with Catholic meditation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBaxter, Mary. "Life journeys of spiritual healers| A qualitative analysis of the life stories of spiritual healers." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10117907.
Full textThis qualitative research of the life stories of ten spiritual healers is focused on the threads of their journeys that led them to this unusual line of work, and their descriptions of their inner experiences while they do their work. Spiritual healers use some form of prayer, a communication with the world of spirit, as a significant part of their healing practices. Their stories reveal their controversial beliefs in invisible dimensions and how and why they believe they interact within these dimensions to experience their own mental, emotional, and spiritual healing, and offer this to others. A recurrent theme throughout participants’ lives is their ability to find positive meaning and personal growth through unusual adversity. They all have a strong sense of calling, of life purpose, that drew them to this work in divergent and fascinating ways, many having this awareness even as young children, with self-actualization as an expected purpose and outcome in life.
Andrews, A. Eugene Jr. "Spiritual life of Bible college students." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1995. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
Full textCornish, Rick. "A study of the effect of practicing spiritual disciplines on the Christian's quality of spiritual being." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textJohnson, Dorothy Sharpe. "Becoming more Christ-like through the practice of essential spiritual disciplines a manual for the A. M. E. Zion Church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRobertson, Linda A. "The spiritual competency scale a comparison to the ASERVIC spiritual competencies /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002422.
Full textOguri, Joanna Ratna. "Applying all diligence from spiritual sloth to spiritual growth /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p091-0055.
Full textGoldberg, David S. "The intersection of leadership and spirituality| A qualitative study exploring the thinking and behavioral attributes of leaders who identify as spiritual." Thesis, Union Institute and University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10173954.
Full textWhile the field of leadership can trace its roots to Plato, Sun Tzu and Machiavelli among many others, it has become a focus of contemporary academic studies in the last 50 to 75 years. And while spirituality can trace its origins to Muhammad, Jesus and Buddha, the exploration of the nexus of leadership and spirituality is much more recent and as a result, a limited body of knowledge exists and thus, is ripe for study.
Many challenges exist, including the fact that the study of leadership is a multidisciplinary academic field that includes a myriad of topics from a vast array of disciplines and spirituality, too, is extraordinarily diverse. This study explored a set of theories and tools to enable leaders to develop and support qualities in themselves and in those with whom they work and interact. Specifically, this work is a qualitative study exploring the nexus of leadership and spirituality, which addresses the gap in the literature that considers this intersection, as evidenced by the Venn diagram that includes leadership, spirituality, and thinking and behavioral attributes.
While a qualitative study, the quantitative element used is Emergenetics, a 30-year-old psychometric tool that looks at the four thinking attributes of analytical, structural, conceptual and social and the three behaviors of expressiveness, assertiveness and flexibility. With more than 630,000 profiles completed in 21 languages by people around the world, the universe for this study consisted of 14 one-to-one interviews and two focus groups of 14 people each, one in person and one online. The myriad of faith traditions with which the participants identified in their youth is provided in Table 2. With regard to the tradition with which participants identify today, of the 42 participants, 24 identify as Science of Mind/Religious Science and 18 identify with other faith traditions or no faith tradition.
The primary question was does spirituality influence leaders' thinking and behaviors. The secondary questions included an exploration around in what ways spirituality influences thinking and behaviors. It also explored the questions as to if spirituality informs the ways leaders challenge things in their organizations and if acknowledging one's spirituality publically helps or hinders building effective teams.
The highlights of the research include the finding that spirituality does indeed influence everything a leader does and is, whether thinking and behavior attributes and how a leader questions things. As well, while publicly acknowledging one's spirituality is thought to be positive, there are some confounding circumstances and those ideas are also presented.
The study also includes the group Emergenetics profiles for the two focus groups and all of the individual interviews as one profile, respectively, with an explanation as to how that informed the research.
Finally, the implications of this research to the study of leadership, the study of spirituality and leadership and the use of the Emergenetics tool in such work is explored.
Dang, Tri Minh. "Christ's beatitudes, kingdom and the spiritual life." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
Full textDuns, Ryan Gerard. "Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age? William Desmond's Theological Achievement." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108206.
Full textThis project attempts to respond to Charles Taylor's invitation, made in A Secular Age, for "new and unprecedented itineraries" capable of guiding seekers toward an encounter with God. Today, many Westerners find belief in God difficult if not impossible. This essay begins with an overview of Taylor's secularization narrative and explores the causes and pressures that have made belief in the Transcendent problematic. To respond to Taylor's summons for new itineraries, I turn in Chapters 2-4 to the work of philosopher William Desmond. After introducing readers to Desmond and locating him on a landscape dominated by phenomenologists, I introduce Desmond's metaphysical philosophy and argue that this his thought can be approached as a form of spiritual exercise capable of reawakening a sense of the Transcendent. In Chapters 3 and 4 I engage the work of Pierre Hadot to show how Desmond's philosophy can work to transform the way one perceives the world. Read within this framework, I believe Desmond's metaxological metaphysics provides a series of spiritual exercises needed in an increasingly secular age. Read in this light, metaxology becomes less a philosophy about which one must be informed than a philosophy capable of forming readers to perceive reality anew. In Chapter 5, I draw out some of the theological implications for this interpretation of Desmond's work. In the conclusion, I survey the project and indicate what I consider to be the theological achievement of Desmond's project and potential openings for future engagement with his work
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Campbell, David S. "The need for spiritual formation training in seminary education and basic features of a spiritual formation curriculum." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
Full textAppendix 1. "Addendum to 'Features of course design.'"-- Appendix 2. "Course handouts." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-159).
Jewett, Steven P. "Five dimensions for spiritual transformation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Full textAvalon, Jillian. "Life and Death: Spiritual Philosophy in Anna Karenina." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/772.
Full textBalentine, Peter Jeremy. "Whole like Jesus a spiritual growth model /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
Full textStinson, Alicia M. "Spiritual Life Review with Older Adults| Finding Meaning in Late Life Development." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3568765.
Full textSpirituality has been recognized as a positive factor in the lives of older adults, especially as it influences their emotional, mental, and physical well-being. This convenience sample study included 17 older adults residing at a faith based continuing care retirement community in Florida. The sample was represented by Caucasian older adults with an average age of 84 years, highly educated, majority Protestant and mostly female. Spiritual life reviews were conducted using spiritual life maps (Hodge, 2005) and semi-structured interview questions. Erikson's epigenetic stage of ego-integrity was used along with Butler's life review process and Tornstam's gerotranscendence as a conceptual framework for understanding late life development and spirituality in older adults. This mostly qualitative study used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to analyze the responses to the open-ended interview questions about spirituality across the life-time. Ego-integrity was measured at the beginning and end of the spiritual life review study.
Paired t-tests found that participation in the spiritual life review did not influence the ego integrity scores of participants. Specifically, there were no statistically significant difference between the pre ego integrity score (M=82.94, SD= 8.235) and the post ego integrity score (M=84.47, SD= 7.551); t (16) = -.769 p= .453. However, in comparison, the qualitative analysis revealed that the spiritual life review does influence ego-integrity in some participants. Additionally, the spiritual life review confirms gerotranscendence and contributes to information about spiritual development in the lives of older adults. The conclusion offers a discussion about the study's limitations, strengths, implications for future research, and suggestions for clinical practice.
Stinson, Alicia Margaret. "Spiritual Life Review With Older Adults: Finding Meaning in Late Life Development." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4778.
Full textGeiger, Jane Noreen. "Spiritual freedom a gracious path /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p028-0282.
Full textDarwin, David R. "The pilgrim warrior a Puritan model of spiritual formation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Full textIncludes vita. Includes "Teacher's notes for the class The pilgrim warrior" and "Student's notes for the class The pilgrim warrior." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 326-340).
Kim, Young Eun. "A biblical study of spiritual maturity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textCaldwell, John William. "A program for the encouragement of Christian disciplines for spiritual growth at Kingsway Christian Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
Full textDarrow, Leslie L. "A program to begin the spiritual formation of the Twain Harte Evangelical Free Church through special and corporate occasions." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
Full textColborne, Timothy John. "Renewal and temperament spiritual formation in the context of personality type /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textOates, Roy D. "Discipling believers with the beatitudes of Matthew 5:1-12 a standard for spiritual maturity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLevenson, Russell Jones. "Growing in grace spiritual formation in the local parish /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textO'Neil, Gale. "Spiritual formation an inward journey /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMcFarland, Gerald. "The spiritual life of seminary students a model for spiritual formation on the seminary campus /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
Full textStinson, Joseph David. "Spiritual renewal through the development of spiritual lives of men in the congregation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0622.
Full textSombrio, Murray L. "The Johannine contribution to the doctrine of the spiritual life." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLeung, King-Ho. "Being, living, thinking : metaphysics and philosophy as a way of life." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52574/.
Full textZani, Mario Jorge. "A Wesleyan approach to spiritual formation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMirbaha-Hashemi, Fariba. "Measures and Correlates of Daily Spiritual Experiences." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5406/.
Full textStigall, Gerald L. "Developing disciples through the spiritual disciplines." View the abstract online, 2002. http://library.tiu.edu/abstracts/02stigg.html.
Full textPegorsch, Dennis W. "Rekindling your spiritual life at age 65 and beyond." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLekhak, Nirmala. "COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN LATER LIFE: BENEFITS OF SPIRITUAL PRACTICES." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1499866841014548.
Full textWong, Wing-fat. "The spiritual path for Buddhists." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987357.
Full textDeutsch, Michael R. "Leading First Baptist Church to renewal through the introduction of spiritual disciplines." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1588.
Full textCahill, Christopher T. "A tool for spiritual formation for pastors on the SELC District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWhatley, Barry M. "Building for the future sharpening the tools of spiritual formation in the Québec evangelical context /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textPerkins, H. Jack. "A project introducing seminarians and spouses to the concept of Christian psychospiritual formation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBusch, Preston. "Silence, solitude, prayer and contemplation as spiritual disciplines essential to formation of effective preachers." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textFernandez, John. "Piety under pressure an exegesis of Psalm 37:1-9 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLiu, Peter Lap-Ming. "Devotional application in Puritan biblical interpretation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLucien, Caleb Edouard. "The relationship of illiteracy to spiritual maturity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHuesmann, Louis MacDonald. "Spiritual renewal and the kingdom of God." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLeibold, Robert Charles. "Spiritual direction and small group ministries." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textCrosby, David Marshall. "A pure heart a model for wholistic Christian spirituality /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1996. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0056.
Full textKuhl, David R. "Exploring spiritual and psychological issues at the end of life." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0015/NQ46369.pdf.
Full textGreen, Daniel D. "The use of classical spiritual disciplines in evangelical devotional life." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textDean-Haidet, Catherine Anne. "Thanatopoiesis: The Relational Matrix of Spiritual End-of-Life Care." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1342453467.
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