Robyn Wrigley-Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1200612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robyn Wrigley-Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrigley-Carr |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGLEY-CARR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alphacrucis University College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6146-7892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How Religious Organisations Contribute to Meaning in Life
Religions and religious organisations are key sources of meaning in life through beliefs, values, ritual and experiences. As affiliation with religious institutions is in decline in Australia, the question becomes what role does it continue to play. This research explored this question through interviews with 71 retired Australians about how faith does or does not contribute to meaning in life. Forty-five interviewees had frequent connections wit…
Baron Friedrich von Hügel’s Spiritual Theology Interpreted by Gwendolen Greene, 1918–1959
Baron Friedrich von Hügel (1852–1925) was a highly celebrated Catholic philosopher of religion who provided spiritual direction to his niece, Gwendolen Greene (1878–1959). This spiritual nurture was published as Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece (1928). Thereafter, Greene received global correspondence from readers asking how to ‘live’ these letters. In response, Greene wrote her interpretation of von Hügel’s spiritual theology in…
‘Passion for the unseen’
A recurring aspect in some definitions of spirituality is an unseen, spiritual reality shining through seen, physical reality. This idea of living simultaneously in two worlds – visible/invisible – is conceptualised by Friedrich von Hügel (1852–1925), who emphasised sensory stimulation and attention to symbols as aids for encountering invisible spiritual reality. Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) extended von Hügel's philosophy, through focusing on ‘E…
Reservoir or canal
This research outlines and evaluates a pilot study weekend retreat to refresh Australian Aged Care chaplains (September 2022). The retreat theme of “Living Water” had four movements: “Water Cleansing the Soul”, “A-thirst for God”, Water Refreshing the Soul” and “The Well-watered Garden.” Activities included ”lectio divina”, Ignatian meditation, painting, prayer-walks and corporate worship. Participants were interviewed pre-retreat and provided wr…
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1925) was an Anglican “Spiritual Ecumenist” who viewed prayer as central to Church unity. As Secretary of the Spiritual Entente, a prayer movement in the early 1920s, Underhill wrote a leaflet outlining its four aims. First, the Entente was to include members of any nationality, class, or form of Christian faith, yet loyal to their own Church affiliation. Second, the objective was to hasten the coming of God’s Kingdom by pr…
History and Spiritual Formation
Baron Friedrich von Hügel (1852-1925) viewed history as the crux of institutional religion. He also believed that our response to God needs to include all three "Elements of Religion": the "Intellectual Element" (rational and theological), "Mystical Element" (experiential and devotional) and "Institutional Element" (sacramental, community, tradition and history). Given the role of history in the Baron's "Institutional Element," it is not surprisi…
Peace and spirituality
This article explores how our inner peace and spirituality are linked. It begins by very briefly mentioning ‘mindfulness’ and ‘watchfulness’, then expounds a different contemplative approach set out in the letters of Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), a significant writer on spirituality in the first half of the twentieth century. During the Second World War, Underhill wrote to a group of women who named themselves ‘The Theological Kindergarten’, outl…
“Essentials” for Worship
This article explores some of the theological principles required for effective church worship. In 1927, Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) outlined four “Essentials” or principles for effective liturgy, identified in the context of revisions to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: adoration, the historic, the Eternal, and the interplay between spirit and sense. This article explores the extent to which these four theological principles are actually emb…
Corporate worship for people with dementia
This article explores ways of making chapel services more accessible and meaningful for people with dementia through rituals and sensory stimulation. I was a participant-observer for 6 months at weekly chapel services at an aged care home in Sydney, Australia, and interviewed residents after those services. I also led small group sessions where residents engaged in ‘Ignatian meditation’ on a Biblical narrative. The theoretical schema for this res…
Duplicity behind Stained Glass
The recent revelation of Jean Vanier (1928–2019) and historical cases of sexual manipulation and abuse of six women workers at L’Arche (Trosly-Breuil, France, 1970–2005) is a reminder of our human fragility. This article explores the question of how we, as people working in religion, can seek greater integration so as to avoid, as far as possible, the self-deception and duplicity that can lead to profound harm of others. Through engaging with two…
Supernatural” Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a complex theological concept and a complicated and nuanced reality. In this article we hear the voices of two women writing from the standpoint of Christian theology. First, Evelyn Underhill, a British, mystical theologian and spiritual director (1875–1941) who was the first woman to lecture in theology at the University of Oxford. In her retreat talks, “Abba,” Underhill teaches that forgiveness is “supernatural,” a reality enable…
‘Suffering Well’
‘Suffering Well’ is a key emphasis that the religious philosopher, Baron Friedrich von Hügel (1852–1925), inherited from his spiritual director, Abbé Henri Huvelin (1838–1910). Huvelin and von Hügel both recognized there is no beauty in suffering per se. However, they both argued that ‘suffering well’ – somehow coming to accept sufferin and ‘pressing into Christ’ in the pain – can lead to transformation. Whilst holding this position, von Hügel al…
Proclaiming and cultivating ‘childlikeness’
If contemporary public discourse struggles with truncated notions of what it means to be human, nowhere is this more obvious than in our discussion and treatment of children. By and large, in our public discourse, we treat children as ‘little adults’ – as consumers, objects of beauty and fashion, career aspirants and sometimes even as sexual beings. By contrast, Jesus put children – as children – at the centre of his project in proclaiming the ki…
“Soul Care” for people with dementia
In this article, Baron Friedrich von Hügel’s “three Elements of Religion” are provided as a schema for exploring attentive, individualised “soul care” for people with dementia. This article argues that the best way to respond to the diminution of the “Intellectual Element” for people with dementia is to explicitly increase the attention and nurture we give to the other two Elements—the “Mystical” and the “Institutional Elements.” It is argued tha…
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“Soul Care” for people with dementia
In this article, Baron Friedrich von Hügel’s “three Elements of Religion” are provided as a schema for exploring attentive, individualised “soul care” for people with dementia. This article argues that the best way to respond to the diminution of the “Intellectual Element” for people with dementia is to explicitly increase the attention and nurture we give to the other two Elements—the “Mystical” and the “Institutional Elements.” It is argued tha…
‘Suffering Well’
‘Suffering Well’ is a key emphasis that the religious philosopher, Baron Friedrich von Hügel (1852–1925), inherited from his spiritual director, Abbé Henri Huvelin (1838–1910). Huvelin and von Hügel both recognized there is no beauty in suffering per se. However, they both argued that ‘suffering well’ – somehow coming to accept sufferin and ‘pressing into Christ’ in the pain – can lead to transformation. Whilst holding this position, von Hügel al…
Proclaiming and cultivating ‘childlikeness’
If contemporary public discourse struggles with truncated notions of what it means to be human, nowhere is this more obvious than in our discussion and treatment of children. By and large, in our public discourse, we treat children as ‘little adults’ – as consumers, objects of beauty and fashion, career aspirants and sometimes even as sexual beings. By contrast, Jesus put children – as children – at the centre of his project in proclaiming the ki…
Supernatural” Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a complex theological concept and a complicated and nuanced reality. In this article we hear the voices of two women writing from the standpoint of Christian theology. First, Evelyn Underhill, a British, mystical theologian and spiritual director (1875–1941) who was the first woman to lecture in theology at the University of Oxford. In her retreat talks, “Abba,” Underhill teaches that forgiveness is “supernatural,” a reality enable…
“Essentials” for Worship
This article explores some of the theological principles required for effective church worship. In 1927, Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) outlined four “Essentials” or principles for effective liturgy, identified in the context of revisions to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: adoration, the historic, the Eternal, and the interplay between spirit and sense. This article explores the extent to which these four theological principles are actually emb…
Corporate worship for people with dementia
This article explores ways of making chapel services more accessible and meaningful for people with dementia through rituals and sensory stimulation. I was a participant-observer for 6 months at weekly chapel services at an aged care home in Sydney, Australia, and interviewed residents after those services. I also led small group sessions where residents engaged in ‘Ignatian meditation’ on a Biblical narrative. The theoretical schema for this res…
Duplicity behind Stained Glass
The recent revelation of Jean Vanier (1928–2019) and historical cases of sexual manipulation and abuse of six women workers at L’Arche (Trosly-Breuil, France, 1970–2005) is a reminder of our human fragility. This article explores the question of how we, as people working in religion, can seek greater integration so as to avoid, as far as possible, the self-deception and duplicity that can lead to profound harm of others. Through engaging with two…
Peace and spirituality
This article explores how our inner peace and spirituality are linked. It begins by very briefly mentioning ‘mindfulness’ and ‘watchfulness’, then expounds a different contemplative approach set out in the letters of Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), a significant writer on spirituality in the first half of the twentieth century. During the Second World War, Underhill wrote to a group of women who named themselves ‘The Theological Kindergarten’, outl…
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1925) was an Anglican “Spiritual Ecumenist” who viewed prayer as central to Church unity. As Secretary of the Spiritual Entente, a prayer movement in the early 1920s, Underhill wrote a leaflet outlining its four aims. First, the Entente was to include members of any nationality, class, or form of Christian faith, yet loyal to their own Church affiliation. Second, the objective was to hasten the coming of God’s Kingdom by pr…
History and Spiritual Formation
Baron Friedrich von Hügel (1852-1925) viewed history as the crux of institutional religion. He also believed that our response to God needs to include all three "Elements of Religion": the "Intellectual Element" (rational and theological), "Mystical Element" (experiential and devotional) and "Institutional Element" (sacramental, community, tradition and history). Given the role of history in the Baron's "Institutional Element," it is not surprisi…
‘Passion for the unseen’
A recurring aspect in some definitions of spirituality is an unseen, spiritual reality shining through seen, physical reality. This idea of living simultaneously in two worlds – visible/invisible – is conceptualised by Friedrich von Hügel (1852–1925), who emphasised sensory stimulation and attention to symbols as aids for encountering invisible spiritual reality. Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) extended von Hügel's philosophy, through focusing on ‘E…
Reservoir or canal
This research outlines and evaluates a pilot study weekend retreat to refresh Australian Aged Care chaplains (September 2022). The retreat theme of “Living Water” had four movements: “Water Cleansing the Soul”, “A-thirst for God”, Water Refreshing the Soul” and “The Well-watered Garden.” Activities included ”lectio divina”, Ignatian meditation, painting, prayer-walks and corporate worship. Participants were interviewed pre-retreat and provided wr…
Baron Friedrich von Hügel’s Spiritual Theology Interpreted by Gwendolen Greene, 1918–1959
Baron Friedrich von Hügel (1852–1925) was a highly celebrated Catholic philosopher of religion who provided spiritual direction to his niece, Gwendolen Greene (1878–1959). This spiritual nurture was published as Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece (1928). Thereafter, Greene received global correspondence from readers asking how to ‘live’ these letters. In response, Greene wrote her interpretation of von Hügel’s spiritual theology in…
How Religious Organisations Contribute to Meaning in Life
Religions and religious organisations are key sources of meaning in life through beliefs, values, ritual and experiences. As affiliation with religious institutions is in decline in Australia, the question becomes what role does it continue to play. This research explored this question through interviews with 71 retired Australians about how faith does or does not contribute to meaning in life. Forty-five interviewees had frequent connections wit…
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