Phenomenological Investigation of Interiorization in the Spiritual Life
Scientia September 30, 2021 DOI: 10.57106/scientia.v10i2.138 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that interiorization, as used in the Dictionnaire de spiritualité and Waaijman's Spirituality, is a transformative process or movement within the reciprocal Divine-Human dialogical relationship, and characterizes it as a transformative mystical dialogue. |
Abstract
The paper, as reflected in the title, uses the method of phenomenology in investigating interiorization in spirituality. The project is carried out as it investigates the 98 appearances of interiorization in Dictionaire de Spiritualite and 33 appearances of interiorization and related words in Kees Waajman’s Spirituality: Forms, Foundations, and Methods. The description of these appearances where placed side by side/on top of each other noting the difference but more importantly, surfacing the invariable. Further, they were explored through the paradigms of spirituality namely, poles of reality, praxes in spiritual life; movements, moments and transformation. The paper phenomenology describes interiorization as a process/movement within the reciprocity of Divine-Human dialogical relationship, a movement that is essentially transformative. Interiorization is a transformative mystical dialogue. References Dictionnaire de spiritualité. ed. Marcel Viller, Charles Baumgartner and André Rayezin, Paris : G. Beauchesne et ses fils, 1932-1995, Tomme 1-17. Geest, Paul Van and Gerard Pieter Freeman. “Birthpangs of a Discipline,” in International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 65:3 (2003): 345-363. Husserl, Edmund. Experience and Judgment. Investigation in the Genealogy of Logic. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 73. __________. Cartesian Mediations, the Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967. __________. Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy (1st book), The Hague -Boston-Lancaster: Springer, 1983. __________. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. Poulain, Augustin. "Mystical Stigmata" in The Catholic Encyclopedia, New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 3 Sept. 2021 . Waaijman, Kees. Spirituality. Forms, Foundations, Methods. Leuven: Peters, 2002.