Spiritual Life

The original claim made in the introduction to this classic volume was that it broke fresh ground: that it set a new agenda for the philosophy of religion and was a reaction against a narrow conception of the discipline that had little to say philosophically about human experience or subjectivity or about the religious imagination or the idea of ''spirituality''. In a new Foreword to the book Michael McGhee reflects on how the discipline has changed or remained the same in the intervening twenty-five years since first publication. He argues that the connections between ''philosophy'' and ''spirituality'' are still developing; and that what we think of as ''religious'' or ''spiritual'' is shifting along with ideas about self-knowledge. The book contains pertinent chapters by some of the leading thinkers in the field including Rowan Williams Janet Soskice Fergus Kerr Stephen Clark and Paul Williams who offers a comparative piece on Tibetan Buddhism.