The Spiritual Dimension

Subtitled 'Religion, Philosophy and Human Value', this book is based on the Stanton lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge. The author's approach will interest Network readers as he engages with spirituality as primarily a matter of praxis rather than belief: 'the envisaged process of internal transformation, in contrast to the intellectual business of evaluating propositions, seems to me fundamental to understanding not just the nature of spirituality but also that of religion in general.' The book goes on to discuss the interfaces between religion and, respectively, science, value, self-discovery, language, the Enlightenment, the good life and pluralism. Cottingham treats psychological and emotional as well as intellectual issues.