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Copyright 1978 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved. LC 77-75798 ISBN 0-8232-1036-7 First edition 1978 Reprinted 1989
Printed in the United States of America
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Dedicated to LEONORA HORTON EGAN and JAMES MARION NEVILLE
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
1 Models of Spiritual Perfection
1
The Analysis of Models
1
A Philosophic Demarcation of Spiritual Development
7
Religions, the Spiritual, and the Religious
12
The Human Tradition
20
2 The Soldier
27
Purification of Will in Self-Image
29
Purification of Will in Action
33
Purification of Will in Consciousness
39
Purification of Will in Devotion
43
3 The Sage
47
Know Thyself
48
Understanding the World
53
Becoming True
56
Enlightenment
62
4 The Saint
71
Perfection of Desires
75
Perfection of Love
83
Perfection of Power
89
Perfection of Divine Communion
91
5 Human Autonomy and God
99
Marx and Nietzsche
100
Predestination: A Problem
103
The Conception of God as Creator
104
God the Creator and the Integrity of Human Freedom
110
6 Spiritual Perfection in the Contemporary Age
117
The Soldier
120
The Sage
122
The Saint
126
Success and Failure
130
Bibliography
133
Index
137
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PREFACE
THIS BOOK IS A PHILOSOPHIC STUDY of some aspects of spiritual development, construing the field of spiritual development in a broad way without essential connection with organized religion. My sense for the contours of the field has been influenced significantly by comparisons between several of the world's great spiritual traditions, and I have tried to be faithful to experiences in those traditions. Readers whose interest in spiritual development comes from the excitement of non-Western traditions will find this book congenial in this regard.
This is a philosophic study, however, not a manual for becoming liberated or a scholarly monograph on the exact meaning of spiritual development in some tradition or other. The book puts forward a philosophical theory of spiritual development, paying attention to personal, social, and metaphysical concerns, and analyzing three central images of spiritual "heroism." It is aimed at students of philosophy in the broadest compass of that class, and requires some effort at philosophic thinking. Although some of its basic systematic strategies may be limited in interest mainly to professional theologians and philosophers, the book's point of view, its arguments, and the experiences on which it is based are accessible to anyone willing to study philosophically. I believe that people with mature interests in spiritual development are natural philosophers and that the challenge of hard ideas is more worthwhile than the pap of popular conclusions.
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