{"id":784,"date":"2015-07-11T10:56:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=784"},"modified":"2015-07-11T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:56:18","slug":"development-of-the-meaning-of-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Development of the Meaning of Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Classical, medieval and early modern periods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Words translatable as &#8216;spirituality&#8217; first began to arise in the 5th century and only entered common use toward the end of the Middle Ages. In a Biblical context the term means being animated by God, to be driven by the Holy Spirit, as opposed to a life which rejects this influence.<\/p>\n<p>In the 11th century this meaning changed. Spirituality began to denote the mental aspect of life, as opposed to the material and sensual aspects of life, &#8220;the ecclesiastical sphere of light against the dark world of matter&#8221;. In the 13th century &#8220;spirituality&#8221; acquired a social and psychological meaning. Socially it denoted the territory of the clergy: &#8220;The ecclesiastical against the temporary possessions, the ecclesiastical against the secular authority, the clerical class against the secular class&#8221;. Psychologically, it denoted the realm of the inner life: &#8220;The purity of motives, affections, intentions, inner dispositions, the psychology of the spiritual life, the analysis of the feelings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the 17th and 18th century a distinction was made between higher and lower forms of spirituality: &#8220;A spiritual man is one who is Christian &#8216;more abundantly and deeper than others&#8217;.&#8221; The word was also associated with mysticism and quietism, and acquired a negative meaning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luc Paquin<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical, medieval and early modern periods Words translatable as &#8216;spirituality&#8217; first began to arise in the 5th century and only entered common use toward the end of the Middle Ages. In a Biblical context the term means being animated by God, to be driven by the Holy Spirit, as opposed to a life which rejects &#8230; <a title=\"Development of the Meaning of Spirituality\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=784\" aria-label=\"Read more about Development of the Meaning of Spirituality\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friend","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}