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Before Belief: Discovering First Spiritual Awareness
Category:	Books > Spirituality > Spiritual Direction
Author/Artist:	BRUCE A STEVENS
ISBN / ID:	9781793607232
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
Binding:	PAPERBACK
Price:	AU$65.99

Description:	First things are spiritually and theologically important. Bruce Stevens explores the precognitive human experience of transcendence, illuminating how such foundational experiences are formative of attachment relationships with people and ultimately with God. The book proposes an implicit learning model, with a goal of recovering unconscious spiritual learning, rather than rely on Freud's or Jung's understanding of the unconscious. Once discovered and put into language, early learning needs to be tested and integrated into life experience and expressed in committed living. The theories examined and advanced in the work are also carried through in practical case studies that demonstrate the pastoral and clinical salience of understanding and connecting people to those grounding experiences. "Bruce Stevens offers us a fascinating and important perspective on the dynamics of what he terms 'unconscious spiritual learning.' He does this by combining the best insights of his professional work as a psychologist and clinician together with his many decades of practical experience and theological reflection as an minister of religion. The result is an extremely accessible and stimulating account of the emergence of the spiritual senses before belief." - Stephen Pickard, executive director, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University

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