Spiritual growth : psychological and theological aspect

Abstract

"The way in which one acts and reacts habitually throughout his life according to his objective and ultimate insights and decisions". Such definition can be said to be complete, but it leaves one afloat on a sea of private human experience with no markers to make this or that dimension of experience stand out. Such definition is good because it includes everything ... but it is not workable because it distinguishes nothing. And without distinctions analysis is impossible. Fr Edward Kinerk states that; "Spirituality must deal with the mysterious depths of the human person in relationship to God and that this mystery often defies conceptualization. However it is usually open to communication through forms of expression which can be conceptual or symbolic; But an individual's full experience of his or her relationship with God can never be adequately expressed, not even symbolically; Also expression is never exhaustive of the reality"