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Document Details : Title: Mysticism Subtitle: The Transformation of a Love Consumed by Desire to a Love without Desire Author(s): MOYAERT, Paul Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 7 Issue: 4 Date: December 2000 Pages: 269-278 DOI: 10.2143/EP.7.4.503813 Abstract : Philosophy as well as theology have always been keen to know which natural capacities of the conditio humana a religiously inspired life is connected with. What is it that makes man susceptible and sensitive to religion? In which natural source of power does religion find its fertile soil? Today this classic question is still of importance. To think about religion from this perspective may help prevent it becoming even more isolated from the totality of forms of life which may support and give an orientation to human existence. The formulation of the question presupposes, on the one hand, that religion is a continuation of interests and practices that may indeed actually be present in forms of existence that are not religiously coloured, and on the other hand that religion provides an enlargement as well as an orientation that these interests and practices, on which it builds, cannot themselves provide. |
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