Emerging Worldviews: The Supplicate Order—Invocation of the Sacred

Approaches to supplication, such as faith and single-minded devotion to an ultimate value or deity, are proposed to constitute the human interface between the manifest and the unmanifest. A reciprocal, resonant interchange between the unmanifest and human summoning of the holy can bring the sacred t...

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Main Author: Brown, Patricia MacDonald (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2013]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2013, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 1296-1305
Further subjects:B Spirituality
B Reciprocity
B integrative worldview
B Faith
B Supplication
B Religious Practice
B Ultimate value
B Manifesto
B Spiritual blessings
B Cross-cultural model
B Human interface
B Single-minded devotion
B Ritual frame
B Resonant interchange
B Implicate order
B Supplicate order
B Unmanifest
B Explicate order
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Summary:Approaches to supplication, such as faith and single-minded devotion to an ultimate value or deity, are proposed to constitute the human interface between the manifest and the unmanifest. A reciprocal, resonant interchange between the unmanifest and human summoning of the holy can bring the sacred to expression in cultural forms and personal experience. Addressing the boundaries between the human and the divine, this paper presents a cross-cultural model for spiritual supplication. This model utilizes the anthropological term ritual frame and provides an integrative worldview with which to examine the dynamics of sacred contact and invocation. This suggests that supplication is the universal and fundamental human orientation to invoke the reception of profound healings, as well as spiritual blessings, cross-cultural understandings and innumerable gifts of creativity.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-012-9573-1