Walking M. Scott Peck's Less-Traveled Road

“In [The Road Not Traveled], Peck clearly sees himself among a tiny and elect group of saints who, by participating in God's omniscience, also ‘share His agony,’ and who walk ahead, utterly alone…. This is a curiously elitist view of mystical development, and it is sharply at odds with his unde...

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Auteur principal: Wink, Walter 1935-2012 (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Sage Publ. 1991
Dans: Theology today
Année: 1991, Volume: 48, Numéro: 3, Pages: 279-289
Accès en ligne: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:“In [The Road Not Traveled], Peck clearly sees himself among a tiny and elect group of saints who, by participating in God's omniscience, also ‘share His agony,’ and who walk ahead, utterly alone…. This is a curiously elitist view of mystical development, and it is sharply at odds with his understanding of community in [The Different Drum]. He has apparently learned, in the intervening years, that spiritual development means not isolation, but the capacity for community.”
ISSN:2044-2556
Contient:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/004057369104800303