Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Chapter 1: Some Maps
Chapter 2: First Things First
Chapter 3: From One Generation to the Next
Chapter 4: The Senses
Chapter 5: Sight
Chapter 6: Touch (including the Sense of Body)
Chapter 7: Hearing
Chapter 8: Smell
Chapter 9: Taste
Chapter 10: Revisiting Infantile Experience
Chapter 11: Into Language
Chapter 12: Evaluation
Chapter 13: Now for Integration
Chapter 14: Committed Living
Chapter 15: Early Spirituality in Ministry
Conclusion
Appendix: The Early Spirituality Profile
Bibliography
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