vol. 37, Issue #3

Online Journal Article: WHEN IS SPIRITUALITY SPIRITUAL? REFLECTIONS ON SOME PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION - D. A. CARSON* JETS 37/3 (September 1994) 381-394

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-3/JETS_37-3_381-394_Carson.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-3/JETS_37-3_381-394_Carson.pdf

WHEN IS SPIRITUALITY SPIRITUAL?
REFLECTIONS ON SOME PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION -
D. A. CARSON*
JETS 37/3 (September 1994) 381-394

Excerpt:
The current interest in spirituality is both salutary and frightening.
It is salutary because in its best forms it is infinitely to be preferred over
the assumed philosophical materialism that governs many people, not only
in the western world but in many other parts as well. It is salutary wherever
it represents a self-conscious rebellion against the profound sense of
unreality that afflicts many churches. We speak of "knowing" and "meeting
with" and "worshiping" the living God, but many feel that the corporate
exercises are perfunctory and inauthentic, and in their quietest moments they
wonder what has gone wrong
--from the first page of the article