spiritualization
IPA: spˈɪrɪtʃʌwʌɫɪzˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of spiritualizing.
- The state of being spiritualized.
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Examples of "spiritualization" in Sentences
- Toynbee emphasized the difference between technological-material progress and true progress, which he defined as spiritualization.
- It is neither the cosmos which merits spiritualization, nor the self considered alone, but the depth of the relationship between the two.
- As the spiritualization of matter, this dogma, long affirmed in alchemy, counteracted for Jung the demonization of matter, which Jung identified with
- Like me, he could see the necessity for a change in thought-patterns whereby all humans believed in the spiritualization of the natural world including their own existence.
- Always on the verge of taking a familiar path (nationalism, spiritualization), romanticism's restless critical and institutional energies also find ways to disrupt those susceptibilities.
- Rorty lauds the German Idealists and the Romantic poets for their rejection of external reality, but, in their fetishization and spiritualization of the Self, he sees mere Platonic claptrap.
- Breaking down that false spiritualization takes us back to seeing how the unity of Christ's people springs to life in the human actuality of the Visitation (the gospel at the Eucharist earlier today) and Pentecost, Luke's two great images.
- On the other hand, romanticism's restless critical and institutional energies find ways to disrupt its own susceptibility to spiritualization — and in those disruptions one may read a critique of the secularism for which spiritualization is a primary way of containing the religious.
- And so, in conclusion, I would sum up by saying that thinking about Mary in relation to the unity of the Church is one essential way of breaking down false spiritualization and pseudo-spirituality – a reminder that the Holy Spirit is mysteriously much more interested than we often are in bodies and history, in Mary and the disciples, in the suffering and risen flesh of Christ, in the sacraments.
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