MODERN SPIRITUALITIES
An Inquiry
edited by Laurence Brown, Bernard C. Farr;
and R. Joseph Hoffmann
Westminster College-Oxford: Critical Studies in Religion
Uncertainty, fear, personal crises, and a search for a sense of self have motivated many to seek
traditional religion. But today new, more modern spiritualities vie for adherents. What are these
spiritualities and how do they differ from traditional beliefs? Who is seeking them and why'? What
benefits do they promise, and do they deliver? These and other questions prompted 15 scholars in
theology, biblical history, philosophy, anthropology, and science to convene at Westminster
College-Oxford to explore answers for today and into the next century.
Contributors include: Joe E. Barnhart, Clinton Bennett, H. James Birx, Laurence Brown,
Margaret Cbatterjee, Bernard C. Farr, Robert Fisher, Antony Flew, R. Joseph, Hoffmann, Paul
Kurtz, Justin Meggitt, Peggy Morgan, Isabel Mukonyora, James Penney, and Victor Stenger.
LAURENCE BROWN teaches at the Alister Hardy Research Center. BERNARD C. C. FARR
(Oxford) is Head of the School of Theology, Westminster College. R. JOSEPH HOFFMANN
(Oxford) is Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at Westminster College.
256 pp ISBN 1-57392-112-2 Cloth
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