Author Archive for Rev. Gregory Jensen

Overcoming the Merely Therapeutic: Human Excellence and the Moral Life
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Overcoming the Merely Therapeutic: Human Excellence and the Moral Life

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In Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (2005), researchers Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton argue that for many young adults in America, the spiritual life is understood in moralistic terms. But where orthodox (and Orthodox) Christianity focus on the necessity of “repentance from sin, of keeping the Sabbath, of living as a servant of a sovereign divine, […]