Looking In the Distance: The Human Search for MeaningSpirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion – and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway considers the nature of the spiritual, and what it means to live with the inevitability of death. Both celebration of the possibilities that life affords and an examination of how doubts and fears too often paralyse, especially as we age, Looking in the Distance is an inspiration, told with the compassion and good humour characteristic of its author. |
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... reasons. There are many Christians who claim to believe that the Bible is a contemporary or living text, a sort of ... reason is just as important. I continue to think that the Bible, like many ancient myths, goes on bringing great ...
... reasons. There are many Christians who claim to believe that the Bible is a contemporary or living text, a sort of ... reason is just as important. I continue to think that the Bible, like many ancient myths, goes on bringing great ...
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... reason. Letter of John Keats to George and Tom Keats (No.45) In 1999 I wrote a book called Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics. As the title suggests, the book had two aims. I set out to argue against the claim that ...
... reason. Letter of John Keats to George and Tom Keats (No.45) In 1999 I wrote a book called Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics. As the title suggests, the book had two aims. I set out to argue against the claim that ...
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... reason that they were never in it. And they do not cease to be interested in spirituality or the inner life of the human community just because they are not members of any of the religions on offer in our society. They are fascinated by ...
... reason that they were never in it. And they do not cease to be interested in spirituality or the inner life of the human community just because they are not members of any of the religions on offer in our society. They are fascinated by ...
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... from our own. To take an obvious example, they all tend to accord to women a status of fixed subordination to men. There may have been good reasons why the subordination of women was appropriate when it was originally religiously codified,
... from our own. To take an obvious example, they all tend to accord to women a status of fixed subordination to men. There may have been good reasons why the subordination of women was appropriate when it was originally religiously codified,
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