Theology and spirituality: Strangers, rivals, or partners?

Abstract

After tracing the history the the term “spirituality” and the discipline the spirituality up to the mid-twentieth century, this article describes the contemporary understanding the spirituality as lived religious experience and the the academic discipline which studies this subject. This phenomenology the the discipline grounds a position on the relationship between lived spirituality and theology on the one hand, and the academic disciplines the spirituality and theology on the other. © 1986, The College Theology Society. All rights reserved.