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2. Engel scale - Wikipedia

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   The Engel scale was developed by James F. Engel, as a way of representing the journey from no knowledge of God, through to spiritual maturity as a Christian believer. [1] The model is used by some Christians to emphasise the process of conversion and the various decision-making steps that a person goes through in becoming a Christian.

3. Ecospirituality - Wikipedia

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   Passages such as this lead some Hindus to become vegetarian and to affirm a broader type of ecospiritual connection to the Earth. Vishnu Purana 3.8.15. states that, "God, Kesava, is pleased with a person who does not harm or destroy other non-speaking creatures or animals." [4] This notion is tied in with the Hindu concept of karma.

4. Spiritual Exercises - Wikipedia

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   The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola are considered a classic work of spiritual literature. [16] Many Jesuits are ready to direct the general public in retreats based on the Exercises . Since the 1980s there has been a growing interest in the Spiritual Exercises among people from other Christian traditions. [ 3 ]

5. Religious experience - Wikipedia

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   The underlying theme here is that God, the perfect goodness, [65] is known or experienced at least as much by the heart as by the intellect since, in the words of 1 John 4:16: "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him." Some approaches to classical mysticism would consider the first two phases as preparatory to the ...

6. Spiritual practice - Wikipedia

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   Many devout Christians have a home altar at which they (and their family members) pray and read Christian devotional literature, sometimes while kneeling at prie-dieu.. In Christianity, spiritual disciplines may include: prayer, fasting, reading through the Christian Bible along with a daily devotional, frequent church attendance, constant partaking of the sacraments, such as the Eucharist ...

7. Ignatian spirituality - Wikipedia

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   To achieve empathy with Jesus and a closer following of him, Ignatius proposed a form of contemplation that he called "application of the senses" to the scenes in the life of Jesus. [2]: 121ff The Spiritual Exercises, in 104, sum this up in a prayer that I may "love him more and follow him more closely." There is a considerable emphasis on the ...

8. Spiritual formation - Wikipedia

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   Such disciplines may be understood as means of exercising and strengthening one's religious and spiritual capacities, [13] a means of accessing a spiritual reality directly, [14] or a manner of making oneself available to the activity of God. [15] Spiritual disciplines, as a strategy towards spiritual formation, have risen and fallen in ...

9. Outline of spirituality - Wikipedia

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   The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to spirituality: . Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality, [1] [need quotation to verify] an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their own being, or the "deepest values and meanings by which people live."