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accessed in more immediate ways. Many of these ideas are discussed and developed by
Sorenson’s highly rated Minding Spirituality 238 which concludes,
Philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1970) suggested that if psychoanalysis is the
hermeneutics of suspicion, it would benefit from dialectical interplay with its
hermeneutical counterpart, a hermeneutics of faith-not the faith of an unexamined
life, but a post-critical faith that generates what Ricoeur called a “second naiveté” (p.
28). This makes for a dialogical hermeneutic of unmasking and demystification
alongside another hermeneutic that recollects or restores meaning (in the root sense
of religion: religare, to gather together) (Sorenson 2004: 167).
Leavy, Jones and Sorenson represent the link between knowing, believing, acting and living
so that incarnation is an actual experience, lived out with an inner awareness of the self in
relation to an external reality, called God, which finds expression through spiritual practices
(Jones 2003).
238 See comments by Aron, ‘he wrote a brilliant article … it was a really important book’ (Safran 2009: 115).
Reference was made to the importance of Sorenson’s work and his tragic early death in interviews I conducted
with James Jones and Charles Spezzano.
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