Ritual and Thought
Spirituality and Method in Philosophy of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3719320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William L Connelly (Australian Catholic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1045 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12121045 |
| OpenAlex | W3215807573 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
This paper outlines a strain of French Spiritualism, a philosophical tradition extending from Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Jules Lachelier to their reception in the work of Maurice Blondel and his protégé Henry Duméry. In receiving and transforming this tradition, Blondel and Duméry have helped to provide a distinct philosophical paradigm in philosophy of religion, capable of providing insight into the spiritual nature of the human being, both in how spirituality relates to the advanced stages of religious culture in addition to its primitive presence in spontaneous action. As a tradition consecrated to the study of human consciousness, and the operations of the mind [l'esprit], the French spiritualist tradition provides a rich conceptual matrix for analyzing the nature of human thinking and its relationship to action. In such an analysis of human thought, Maurice Blondel set up a moral psychology and metaphysical anthropology, highlighting how the consciousness of the human being is linked to the objective order of existence, both in its material form and in the intelligible realities behind the nature of existence. This philosophical matrix helps to show how religious practices, through embodied engagement with the material world, are effective at generating a consciousness of metaphysical or transcendent realities. As such, this philosophical paradigm provides the means for constructing a theory of ritual, where ritual acts with symbols and signs may be rendered intelligible as the sensible means for the cognitive expression of spiritual activity
Consciousness · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Immanence · Metaphysics · Philosophical anthropology · Philosophy of religion · Sociology · Spiritualism · Spirituality · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |