Spiritual Life

Spiritual Life by Michael McGhee, published by Cambridge University Press on April 25, 2024, is a new edition comprising 438 pages in English. This book presents a significant exploration of the philosophy of religion, challenging traditional views that often overlook the complexities of human experience, subjectivity, and spirituality. In this edition, McGhee provides a new Foreword reflecting on the evolution of the discipline over the past twenty-five years, emphasizing the ongoing development of connections between philosophy and spirituality.
Readers will find a collection of insightful chapters contributed by prominent thinkers, including Rowan Williams, Janet Soskice, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Clark, and Paul Williams, who examines Tibetan Buddhism. The text delves into how perceptions of the religious and spiritual realms are evolving alongside contemporary ideas about self-knowledge. This edition aims to engage those interested in the intersections of religion and philosophy, offering a fresh perspective on the subject matter.
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The original claim made in the introduction to this classic volume was that it broke fresh ground: that it set a new agenda for the philosophy of religion and was a reaction against a narrow conception of the discipline that had little to say philosophically about human experience, or subjectivity, or about the religious imagination, or the idea of ‘spirituality’. In a new Foreword to the book, Michael McGhee reflects on how the discipline has changed or remained the same in the intervening twenty-five years since first publication. He argues that the connections between ‘philosophy’ and ‘spirituality’ are still developing; and that what we think of as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ is shifting, along with ideas about self-knowledge. The book contains pertinent chapters by some of the leading thinkers in the field, including Rowan Williams, Janet Soskice, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Clark and Paul Williams, who offers a comparative piece on Tibetan Buddhism.
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