RT Article
T1 A Spiritual Person
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 50
IS 2
SP 313
OP 320
A1 Capps, Donald 1939-
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1668818256
AB When asked in a questionnaire to describe a spiritual person, William James named one instead: Phillips Brooks. This article focuses on Brooks—his life, his sermons, and his poem "O Little Town of Bethlehem"—to make the case that he exemplified James' view of spirituality as "a susceptibility to ideals, but with a certain freedom to indulge in imagination about them." It also supports Belzen's (Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 12:205-222, 2009) view that there is no spirituality in general but only individual manifestations of it, a point that James' nomination of Brooks implicitly supports.
K1 Ideals
K1 Imagination
K1 Inner resources
K1 Jacob A. Belzen
K1 James Bissett Pratt
K1 Louis Martz
K1 Meditation
K1 Phillips Brooks
K1 Spirituality
K1 Vision
K1 William James
DO 10.1007/s10943-010-9340-0