VOLUNTARY SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

My Review of  The Study of Christianity Spirituality:  Contours and Dynamics of a Discipline by  Sandra M Schneiders Christian Spirituality Bulletin: Journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, Volume 6, #1, Spring 1998, p. 1,3-12. This article is a common starting point for discussing spirituality?  What is it? How do we study it?  What is its relationship to various disciplines?  Why is it important?     The Subject Matter of the Discipline of Spirituality Schneiders asserts that most scholars would agree that:  “what we study, is lived Christian faith.”  However, she offers a more specific definition. “Spirituality … is the experience of the conscious involvement in the project of life-integration through self-transcendence toward the ultimate value one perceives.”  She would apply this definition to all forms of spirituality including those that are not Christian or even theistic.  Christianity suppl...