Approach to Spirituality

<p><em>Love is the cause and crown of everything but the key to everything is faith.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p>The phrase I'm spiritual not religious is commonly heard today. Yet as Van Zeller points out in <em>Approach to Spirituality</em> there is no spirituality without true faith and there can be no faith without true religion. He demonstrates the necessity of a life truly conformed to God particularly through prayer in order for spirituality to have any root or effect. Genuine spirituality is not a vague ideal but a practical well-marked path to holiness born out of faith in a God who is reality itself. </p><p><br></p><p>Exploring themes such as the fundamentals of prayer its necessity for all and its practical forms Van Zeller cements the crucial foundations and maps tried-and-true paths in the spiritual life. While everyone desires a rich interior life marked by the heights and depths of union with God in love a soul only progresses with the humble gift of faith: faith in a God who has come close and related to each individual. Therein Van Zeller reveals the true approach to spirituality of which the primary condition then is a belief in the interpersonal relationship between the Christian and Christ. Before you can get anywhere in the spiritual life you have to be convinced that such a relationship is possible and that it is open to <em>you</em>.</p>