The Essentials of Spirituality: A Jewish Theological Argument On the Implicit Worth And Eminent Potential of Every Human Being - Softcover

Adler, Felix

9781494978587: The Essentials of Spirituality: A Jewish Theological Argument On the Implicit Worth And Eminent Potential of Every Human Being

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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life; it depends on facing frankly the thought of death; it is signalized, especially, by the identification of self with others, even of the guiltless with the guilty. Spirituality is sometimes spoken of as if it were a kind of moral luxury, a work of supererogation, a token of fastidiousness and over-refinement. It is nothing of the sort. Spirituality is simply morality carried to its farthest bounds; it is not an airy bauble of the fancy, it is of "the tough fiber of the human heart."

“We have long known and honored Felix Adler and his work, and yet this book comes, in some aspects, as a surprise to us. He puts on spirituality an estimate which the Society of Ethical Culture has not supposed to attach to it. Spirituality is no imaginative or emotional enthusiasm. It is the highest sanity. It is not a subsidiary quality which may be added to honesty and benevolence…And spirituality is not the privilege of an elect few.” -Outlook

“The need of the twentieth century for more direct cultivation of the spiritual life is the theme of Dr. Adler’s latest book.” -The Bookman

The Essentials of Spirituality crystallizes Dr. Adler’s teaching throughout his long service as an apostle of Ethnical Culture. Dr. Adler has produced comparatively few books, and none of recent years to which he has given much minute preparation.” -Publishers Weekly

“Felix Adler has given us a suggestive study of The Essentials of Spirituality.” -The Park Review

“In this small book the author shows spirituality to be morality carried out to the finish. It depends upon always keeping the ultimate end of existence in view. Intervals set aside for self-recollection and the facing of the thought of death are useful aids. The ultimate end itself is to elicit worth in others, and by so doing, in one’s self. The indispensable condition of this attitude is to ascribe worth to every human being before even we observe it, to cast, as it were, a mantle over him, to take toward every human being an expectant attitude, to seek the worth in him until we find it. Even toward the oppressor we should take the same attitude. We must testify to our respect for a principle by treating small occasions in life as great if they involve a moral issue.” -The Missionary Intelligencer

CONTENTS:

I. THE ESSENTIALS OF SPIRITUALITY.

II. THE SPIRITUAL ATTITUDE TOWARD ONE’S NEIGHBOR.

III. THE SPIRITUAL ATTITUDE TOWARD OPPRESSORS.

IV. THE TWO SOULS IN THE HUMAN BREAST.

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About the Author

Felix Adler (1884 - 1963) was an accomplished American screenwriter whose career spanned over 30 years. He is best known for his work with the Three Stooges.

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